Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall issued a proclamation designating Wednesday, Sept. 24, as “Deseret News — Voice of the West Day in Salt Lake City,” following its 175th birthday in June.
The proclamation recognizes the Deseret News for being “the Mountain West’s first newspaper and… the longest-running news organization in Utah, as well as the state’s oldest continuously operating business.” It also mentions that the Deseret News is just one of 47 newspapers in the United States to achieve this milestone.
Mendenhall’s announcement references Deseret News reporter Bob Mullins’s Pulitzer Prize, won in 1962. Mullins was able to gather and publish information the FBI wasn’t even able to get in the case of a murder and kidnapping at Dead Horse Point in July 1961…