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Deseret Digital Media, Inc. (DDM) is a subsidiary company of
Deseret Management Corporation The Deseret Management Corporation (DMC) () is a global operating company, managing for-profit entities affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It was established in 1966 by church president David O. McKay to ...
, an American
holding company A holding company is a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the securities of other companies. A holding company usually does not produce goods or services itself. Its purpose is to own shares of other companies ...
owned by
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a Nontrinitarianism, nontrinitarian Christianity, Christian church that considers itself to be the Restorationism, restoration of the ...
. DDM owns newspapers and websites, as well as radio and television stations. Former CEO,
Clark Gilbert Clark G. Gilbert (born June 18, 1970) has been a general authority seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since April 2021 and the Church Commissioner of Education since August of that year.Sethis articlefor veri ...
, was named president of BYU-Idaho in early 2015. Chris Lee was the president of the company after Clark's departure. In 2016, Greg Peterson became the president of the company. DDM was formed in 2009 to run the website operations. Its products include: * DeseretNews.com, the website for the ''
Deseret News The ''Deseret News'' () is the oldest continuously operating publication in the American west. Its multi-platform products feature journalism and commentary across the fields of politics, culture, family life, faith, sports, and entertainment. Th ...
'' newspaper ** MormonTimes.com, which supports the ''Deseret News'' newspaper's Faith section, ''
Mormon Times The ''Deseret News'' () is the oldest continuously operating publication in the American west. Its multi-platform products feature journalism and commentary across the fields of politics, culture, family life, faith, sports, and entertainment. Th ...
'' ** ChurchNews.com, which supports the ''Deseret News'' newspaper's weekly supplement, ''
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 ...
'' * KSL.com, which supports the KSL radio stations,
KSL-TV KSL-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is the flagship television property of locally based Bonneville International, the for-profit broadcasting arm of the Church of Jesus Chr ...
station and KSL Classifieds. * FM100.com, the website for the
KSFI KSFI (100.3 FM) is a radio station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. KSFI maintains studio facilities located at the KSL Broadcast House building in Salt Lake City's Triad Center (which also house KRSP-FM and the KSL-AM-FM- TV partners), ...
radio station * 1035TheArrow.com, the website for
KRSP-FM KRSP-FM (103.5 MHz, "103.5 The Arrow") is a radio station in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is owned by Bonneville International, a subsidiary of Deseret Management Corporation, the for-profit arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. KR ...
radio station


References


Further reading

*
Deseret News – Changing Two Media Cultures , Pew Research Center's Journalism Project


* Head of Deseret Digital Media, Deseret News discusses disruptive change


External links


"Deseret VP: How Disruption Can Drive Digital Media Companies"
Street Fight. Publishing companies established in 2009 2009 establishments in Utah {{LDS-stub