The Deseret News Publishing Company is a publishing company headquartered in

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, United States. It is a subsidiary of

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(DMC), a

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owned by the

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. The company publishes the daily Salt Lake City area newspaper, ''

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'', and its weekly inserts the ''

Church News The ''Church News'' (or ''LDS Church News'') is a weekly tabloid-sized supplement to the ''Deseret News'' and the ''MormonTimes'', a Salt Lake City, Utah newspaper owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It is t ...

'' and ''

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''. It also publishes a semi-weekly Spanish paper, ''OKespañol'', and the '' Deseret News Church Almanac''. The company was incorporated in 1931 to direct the operations of the ''Deseret News'', which until then was owned directly by

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(LDS Church). For many years the company operated a jobs press, known as the Deseret News Press, in which they used their presses to publish content for other publishers, such as

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History

The ''News''

The ''Deseret News'', also referred to as the ''News'', was first published on June 15, 1850, in Salt Lake City. The paper was started under the direction of LDS Church

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, with

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as editor and "Truth and Liberty" as its motto. The ''News'' would start out as a weekly publication, but eventually semi-weekly and daily editions were added; all three were published concurrently until the weekly was ended in 1898. The semi-weekly was discontinued in 1922, and currently only the daily edition is published. Since its first issue the ''News'' has always been under the ownership of the LDS Church, but often held by various church owned companies; the first of which, The Deseret News Company, was incorporated on September 3, 1880. Because of financial troubles, The Deseret News Company leased the ''News'' along with the company's jobs press (printing and bookbinding), and merchandising—on October 1, 1892—to the

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. The Cannon family formed a company to be the lessee of the ''News'' and called this company the Deseret News Publishing Company. But, the Cannon family was unable to make the paper financially sound, and the lease was returned to the church owned Deseret News Company on September 7, 1898 (and the first Deseret News Publishing Company was dissolved). Soon after the LDS Church took over direct ownership of the ''News'' and dissolved The Deseret News Company.

Incorporation

On December 29, 1931, the Deseret News Publishing Company was incorporated by the LDS Church. Its articles of incorporation, filed with the

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Clerk, provided for 500 shares of stock, all retained by the church (with the exception of the qualifying directors' shares). This new company took over direct ownership and control of the ''News'' and its jobs press. In 1966, when DMC was formed as a holding company for the LDS Church's for-profit businesses, Deseret News Publishing became a subsidiary of DMC.

Publications

Current

*''Deseret News'' **''Church News'' **''Sunday National Edition, formerly the Mormon Times'' *''OKespañol'' *'' Deseret News Church Almanac''

Former

*''The Deseret News Consumer Analysis'', annual Salt Lake City area consumer analysis *''2002 Salt Lake City: Memorable Photographs and Stories from the Games of 2002''

Notes

References

*Ashton, Wendell J., (1950). ''Voice in the West: Biography of a Pioneer Newspaper,'' New York:

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