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150 years

deseretnews.com
sesquicentennial

Sunday, June 25, 2000




THE PAPER

From news to paper

Staffers work to make News stand out

What is LDS Church's involvement?

Better uses for old papers than lining birdcages

The making of an afternoon newspaper

Questions and answers about newspapers

The Top Ten Reasons to Subscribe

Amazing numbers tell about the News

PEOPLE

All the dirt on Deseret News' staffers

Interpretation of newsroom jargon

Deserette? A familiar buzz of confusion

Deseret News headed by board of executives

Deseret News staff — 2000

HISTORY

Deseret News has seen many changes

Joint operation allows competition to flourish

Editorial pages: the first chat rooms

Deseret News Day proclamation

Deseret News timeline

MORE

Don't stop the presses yet

Touching lives, touching Utah

Forging on in a world of change

A year of extra activities

News staffers garner awards

Essay contest



Format for printing

E-mail story




The Top Ten Reasons to Subscribe to the 150-year-old Deseret News

(with apologies to David Letterman).

10. Brigham Young and Steve Young both subscribed.

9. Get up late and it's a morning paper.

8. "Dewey Beats Truman?" Hey, it wasn't us.

7. Where else can you get a daily reminder we live in a deseret?

6. Read the Tribune's want-ads without buying the Tribune.

5. We're even older than our subscribers.

4. No Rolly. No Wells.

3. C'mon, they're only editorials.

2. We stopped running Big Tobacco ads so long ago, Big Tobacco sued us!

1. After 150 years, we're bound to hit the porch sometime.

Lee Benson




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