Some Salt Lake Tribune journalists are disturbed by their chairman's efforts to investigate the governor who defeated his brother, Jon Huntsman
But in a highly unusual arrangement, Huntsman didn’t use his own newspaper. He started a company instead, working with lawyers to investigate how tens of millions of dollars’ worth of contracts were awarded under Utah’s then-lieutenant governor and now-governor, Spencer Cox.
In an interview with The Washington Post, the chairman strongly denied using his company or the newspaper for his brother’s behalf, and said Jittai’s purpose was to expose mismanagement and corruption in the state public health system. Some of the companies Jittai has sought to investigate have raised the same concern.
But Huntsman’s leadership has sometimes caused friction in the newsroom. The paper’s top editor, Jennifer Napier-Pearce, resigned in August 2020, several weeks after the Republican gubernatorial primary ended and a few months before Huntsman said he created Jittai. She cited “differences of opinion” with Huntsman about “newsroom coverage, management and policies.
2020, using several hundred thousand dollars of his own money. He did so, he said, because he did not feel the Tribune’s 80-member newsroom had the depth and expertise to tackle the record searches involved in investigating the state’s testing contracts.“There’s a lack of financial fluency” among the news staff, Huntsman told The Post. “This story requires expertise in securities fraud, health-care fraud. It requires technical and scientific knowledge.
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