Robin Ritch - President and Publisher of Deseret News
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Robin Ritch is President and Publisher of Deseret News.
From advising startups to transforming the longest-running news organization in the American West, Robin has grown Deseret News, founded in 1850 by the Mormon Church, from a local paper into a national media powerhouse, with over 10 million readers across their platforms. As Utah\\u2019s oldest continuously operating business, their name derives from the geographic area of Deseret, and just like the settlers that named the area, it is a pioneer in its own right.
Robin shares their commitment to tackling fake news by \\u201cbeing a standard-bearer of journalistic integrity and principled reporting\\u201d and discusses their mission to \\u201celevate understanding, challenge assumptions and illuminate context\\u201d about the Mormon Church, while remaining editorially independent. Having identified a clear gap in the national news market, and looking to provide a balance to the typically right or left-wing political dialogue, Robin lead the paper towards a centrist political approach, based on values that are important to their readers: family, faith and community. Robin also examines how the paper famously came out against Trump, and continues to oppose him on moral grounds.