This article showcases our top picks for the best Utah based News companies. These startups and companies operate a variety of News solutions. We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands. Regardless, they are all exceptional startups and companies well worth a follow.
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We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Utah News Companies
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Salt Lake Tribune
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Salt Lake Tribune is a newspaper and also an online platform that provides everything from breaking news, weather and traffic to Utah Jazz updates, and more. It provides coverage for the state of Utah and beyond.
Salt Lake Tribune is accepted as the largest circulated daily newspaper in the city of Salt Lake City. In 2012, Salt Lake Tribune won the EPPY award for Best Newspaper Website.
Salt Lake Tribune was first published in 1971 and is based in Salt Lake City, U.T.. .
Radiate Media
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Radiate Media provides software and related services that help local media and businesses capture their audience.
DrivingSales
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DrivingSales.com is the largest car dealer social network where thousands of dealership professionals collaborate and share best practices in a 20-group style setting. The site is the industry’s largest source of free dealership best practices information.
At DrivingSales, members create profiles, network with each other and share best practices. Dealership managers are allowed to rate and review their dealership vendors in a verified setting.
DrivingSales hosts the largest retail-focused community of automotive blogs, videos, interviews, social automotive news feeds, and more. DrivingSales was created and built from the ground up in 2003 by Jared Hamilton, a third-generation auto dealer, as a private automotive business community to network his NADA Dealer Candidate Academy class.
The site opened nationally in 2008 and is the industry’s leading automotive social media custom platform. DrivingSales was named one of ten social media gambits for 2009 by Automotive News and one of the Top 10 Companies to Watch by Auto Success Magazine..
Nu Skin Enterprises
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Global direct selling company, Nu Skin Enterprises, keeps itself busy exfoliating and polishing. It offers 200-plus personal care products, including cleansers, toners, and anti-aging skin care products, through a global network of some 800,000 independent distributors, sales reps, and preferred customers.
It also sells cosmetics, fragrances, hair care items, and mouthwash. Nu Skin has its foot in the door in some 50 global markets, including cherished China.
Its Pharmanex unit sells LifePak nutritional supplements. Its Big Planet subsidiary offers personal and small-business technology and communications products, as well as Internet and long-distance services.
Nu Skin was founded in 1984 by its Chairman Blake Roney. Nu Skin is known for its enviable company culture, consistently receiving positive employee reviews, company reviews, and leadership reviews.
Nu Skin employees rank among the happiest in Utah, receiving Best Company to Work For awards in 2009, 2010 and 2014.. .
Curate.me
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Get the best news from your Twitter and Facebook Streams.
America’s Real Deal
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They are a new reality TV show focused on the entrepreneur where the audience ‘votes with their wallets’ to donate, purchase products and invest in projects that are promoted on the show. Their entertaining, interactive format fully engages the studio and television audiences.
Here is an overview as of January 10, 2015: ~ They have contracted with Kevin Harrington (one of the original ‘sharks’ on Shark Tank) and Forbes Riley (known as the billion-dollar host) to be Judges/Mentors on their show. A few celebrity guests from the sports, movie/television, political and business industries have also accepted their invitation to participate in the show as Guest Judges.
~ They have their show Registered with the Writers Guild of America, West, Inc. ~ They have a beautiful set designed and location reserved in the Salt Lake City, Utah area for filming.
It has a professional, elegant feel to it. ~ They have a Letter of Intent from a nationally syndicated television network with over 80 million potential viewers to distribute their first full season, which is scheduled to be aired in late summer/early fall.
Other distribution relationships are being considered. ~ Through their live pitch events they have vetted hundreds of willing and qualified entrepreneurial companies from which they will select contestants for their pilot season.
~ They are in substantial talks with three nationally-recognized production houses – all of which have voiced their desire to produce their program. ~ They have both non-equity and equity platforms ready to go live when they air the show.
Deseret News
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The Deseret News (www.deseretnews.com) is the first news organization and the longest continuously-operating business in the state of Utah. Owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Deseret News offers news, information, commentary, and analysis from an award-winning and experienced team of reporters, editors, columnists, and bloggers.
Its mission is to be a leading news brand for faith and family oriented audiences in Utah and around the world.. .
Snazzy Labs
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Snazzy Labs, a press company, has been bringing the most honest technology reviews to the Net since 2008. Founded by Quinn Nelson in December of 2008, under the production name “ThatSnazzyiPhoneGuy,” the initial motive was to dilute the market of biased and paid reviews to bring the most honest outlook and opinions to the web.
Though the original motive hasn’t changed, Snazzy Labs has grown exponentially since it’s inauguration, servicing over 35 million video views to people in more than 148 countries. In April of 2010, ThatSnazzyiPhoneGuy was renamed to a much sleeker and streamlined Snazzy Labs.
In September 2011, 5 new writers were brought on board to professionally write for SnazzyLabs.com.. .
Munkee Apps, Inc.
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Munkee Apps is a mobile startup company that offers useful, innovative, and entertaining applications for iOS and Android systems.
Salt Lake City Weekly
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A free alternative weekly tabloid-paged newspaper published in Salt Lake City, Utah.
American Gnuity
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They are a new reality TV show focused on the entrepreneur where the audience ‘votes with their wallets’ to donate, purchase products and invest in projects that are promoted on the show. Their entertaining, interactive format fully engages the studio and television audiences.
Here is an overview as of January 10, 2015: ~ They have contracted with Kevin Harrington (one of the original ‘sharks’ on Shark Tank) and Forbes Riley (known as the billion-dollar host) to be Judges/Mentors on their show. A few celebrity guests from the sports, movie/television, political and business industries have also accepted their invitation to participate in the show as Guest Judges.
~ They have their show Registered with the Writers Guild of America, West, Inc. ~ They have a beautiful set designed and location reserved in the Salt Lake City, Utah area for filming.
It has a professional, elegant feel to it. ~ They have a Letter of Intent from a nationally syndicated television network with over 80 million potential viewers to distribute their first full season, which is scheduled to be aired in late summer/early fall.
Other distribution relationships are being considered. ~ Through their live pitch events they have vetted hundreds of willing and qualified entrepreneurial companies from which they will select contestants for their pilot season.
~ They are in substantial talks with three nationally-recognized production houses – all of which have voiced their desire to produce their program. ~ They have both non-equity and equity platforms ready to go live when they air the show.
Cash Network LLC
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Cash Network is a more than a standard CPA network; it’s a “Pro-Publisher” and “Pro-Advertiser” network.
Newswire
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Newswire.net is a community of independent journalists that publishes press releases, news releases, and online business directories. It is a platform to publish writings, create press releases, share personalized adverts, and promote individuals and companies.
The site shares news articles, images, videos, blog posts, reviews, opinion pieces, press releases, directories, and advertisements. It posts content about the issues in the world, the U.S., and local regions.
It covers sections such as politics, sports, education, business, technology, travel, health, and finance. Newswire.net was launched in 1999 and is operated from Salt Lake City, Utah..
Bonneville International
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Bonneville International Corporation is a media and broadcasting company, wholly owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) through its for-profit arm, Deseret Management Corporation. It began as a radio and TV network in the Triad Center Broadcast House in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Bonneville’s name alludes to Benjamin Bonneville and the prehistoric Lake Bonneville that once covered much of modern-day Utah, which was named after him. Bonneville owns about 13 radio stations in four major markets as well as one NBC affiliate television station in its home market, and also operates a second non-affiliated TV station, also in its home market.
Additionally, its Bonneville Communications division provides marketing and communications strategy and branding services. Bonneville Distribution, another division, provides broadcast syndication and distribution services to non-profit organizations..
Warner/Chappell Production Music
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Warner/Chappell Production Music Company operates as a news music production company worldwide. It focuses on providing music and library selections to the professional world of movies, TV shows, commercials, trailers, and radio.
The company offers film scoring and music licensing services; and music supervision services, such as spotting film/documentary/program with directors, selecting appropriate music for programs from library sources, lay in of music with dialogue, and add original music when necessary or needed. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
It also has offices in New York, New York; Los Angeles, California; and London, the United Kingdom. As of August 6, 2007, Non Stop Music Company operates as a subsidiary of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc..
Utah Media Group
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Utah Media Group, formerly MediaOne of Utah, is committed to delivering the best publications, events and services for Their advertising customers to engage with Their audiences. Utah Media Group was incorporated in 1952 – then as Newspaper Agency Corporation – as the joint advertising, circulation and production arm of Deseret News and The Salt Lake Tribune, Utah’s largest daily newspapers.
Since then, Their portfolio has grown to include magazines, niche publications, events and event management, mobile applications, direct-mail solutions, delivery services, printing services, creative services and real estate – with a combined reach of more than 1 million people in Utah every week.. .
RedFlag News
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Ranked in the Top 50 Conservative Websites for 2013 by Alexa Rank, RedFlag News (RFN) maintains a news aggregation service that spotlights carefully selected news and commentary on a real-time basis. In 2009, after being unable to find a website that would simply “red flag” news and opinion as a warning of corrupt politics or a problem with news media bias, J.R.
Elliott began work on the website that is now RedFlag News— contributing thousands of unpaid hours away from his own family and career to bring the news to the website’s loyal readers. With his knack of finding good stories and sources (financed by the spare change found in the couches of his home), RFN has blossomed into a product that powers tens of thousands of independent thinkers’ news addiction and currently serves more than two million of hits per month.
Defined by J.R. Elliott’s insistence on a news aggregation website that provides an unparalleled user experience from a robust core, every pixel of RedFlagNews.com is engineered with the mindset that the interface will be timeless, creative, and delightful.
That mindset, along with his execution, has allowed RFN to grow organically without any advertising and prove to be a wise choice for those looking to expand their news experience outside the liberal mainstream media. Because RFN is clearly focused on conservative news and opinion, and the multiple tangents the Conservative Movement offers, its audience is conveniently focused, yet broad within its borders.
RFN is popular with bloggers, Pinterest and Facebook users — an increasingly influential demographic — together with: • early adopters of sites like Drudge Report, Breitbart and Huffington Post; • almost half of the United States Congress; • news junkies like ourselves; • journalists and nationally syndicated talk radio hosts; • super PACs and political campaigns; • members of the Independent, Libertarian, Conservative, and Tea Party movements. A majority of RFN visitors come to its site to find the latest in breaking news and opinion.
Its audience is completely devoted to and immersed in what the Conservative Movement has to offer. They are concerned Americans who are highly engaged, activism minded and thoroughly aware of current events.
BYUtv
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BYU Broadcasting is an integrated media organization.
KUTV 2News
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KUTV 2News is a U.S.-based online platform, providing local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, and much more.
Construction Monitor
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Construction Monitor is a publishing company that provides lead generation tool.
Wide Limited Release Film Distribution Fund
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The Wide Limited Release Film Distribution Fund is seeking capital to scale-up regionally profitable films to reach a national audience, thus increasing their ROI exponentially. This is not a movie production company (but that is the closest category available among the industry choices Equity Net provides).
This is a fund to leverage the marketing of proven independent films and incorporates deals with the distributors. Wide Limited Release will choose from the best films that have already proven their dollar-in/dollar-out investment/profit function regionally and test them for national acceptance.
Those that test well will receive proper and appropriate capital to go national, increasing current profits from hundreds of thousands of dollars to tens of millions of dollars. We have a slate of successful, profitable films that have only had limited release but shown exceptional ROI in those targeted areas.
The only thing holding them back from wide release and even bigger returns is capital. Wide Limited is looking for accredited investors who share its vision and is capable of providing seed money of $5,000,000.
However, Wide Limited will risk only $300,000 for initial tests before proceeding to the next level. The funds will be used for advertising buys and earned media exposure to take proven profitable regional film distribution models, test them in other regions of the US, and then scale up to the national market for significant returns if tests prove successful.
Films are released either in a limited release (to a small targeted market) or a wide release (to the nation or world). Appropriately capitalized, Wide Limited Release will recoup every marketing dollar spent within six months and earn its profits from the DVD exploitation of such films in the next 18 months after theatrical release.
Fox 13 News
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Livestreaming, breaking news notifications, and all the local news you want from FOX 13 in a fast, high-performance app.
ATCOR Holdings
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ATCOR Holdings is a digital media vehicle.
Daily Herald
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With main offices in Provo, Utah, the Daily Herald is published seven days a week with a print circulation of 20,000 daily and nearly 27,000 Sunday. The Herald’s Web site reaches approximately 700,000 unique visitors each month.
They are by far the dominant source of news and information for Utah County. In addition to its daily print and online editions, the Herald owns a weekly community publications in Sanpete County, and it offers 100 percent penetration in its core market for advertisers through Central Utah Quality Buys, a mailed advertising piece..
TinyTorch
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78% of consumers say that the posts made by companies on social media influence their purchases but more than 65% of businesses struggle to produce enough engaging content to build their social following. TinyTorch is a platform that helps businesses, discover, create and share social content.
In less time than it takes to brew a pot of coffee, businesses can find and schedule a month’s worth of relevant and engaging content to post on their social pages. Businesses and brands can also create their own custom content, and then save it to their profile for their own use or for other businesses and brands to share..
Standard-Examiner
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The Standard-Examiner is the region’s daily news source, serving Weber, Davis, Box Elder and Morgan counties for 125 years. Every week, over 300,000 area residents read Standard-Examiner products to stay informed on events happening in their city and local community.
Available in print, online and mobile formats, the Standard-Examiner is the leading news source in Northern Utah.. .
LDS Living
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LDS Living is a magazine publishing company.
SlipTalk
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SlipTalk provides trending news, pictures and videos.
Mezy
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Mezy is a new social network that makes sharing photos and videos simple. Mezy has combined the most popular ways to share photos and videos all into one easy user experience.
With Mezy, you get to choose how (or where) your photos are seen by your friends, so you can control how you share your life.. .
Sansom Media
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Sansom Media is a production and media company that makes documentaries and commercials.
The Runner Sports
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The Runner Sports take a unique approach to the world of online sport journalism utilizing a smaller team of writers per community in an attempt to make the website a more fan engaged destination than other similar companies. They provide coverage of the most popular sports leagues around the world, NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, EPL, MLS, NCAA etc.
on a team by team basis.. .
iBeacon.com
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iBeacon.com is an online platform dedicated to bringing together the latest iBeacon and Low Energy Bluetooth news. The platform is highly focused on iBeacon technology, software, hardware, and consumer applications.
iBeacon.com’s aim is to be a resource for those interested in learning about and engaging with iBeacon technology now and in the future. It was launched in 1995..
Hellosys
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Hellosys offering technology news, business ideas and believe in making thing that matters which makes people life better.
The Park Record
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The Park Record is a company that covers news, sports, entertainment and dining, business, classified advertising.
iFollo
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iFollo is the most interactive celebrity news Web site available. It breaks down the barriers put up by publicists and rises above monotonous fan propaganda.
iFollo truly satisfies the public’s craving to know about, and connect with, celebrities in sports, politics, fashion, music and entertainment.. .
Good Faith Film Fund
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The Good Faith Film Fund is seeking capital to leverage the success of its management in film development, production and distribution to provide Hollywood-sized budgets and Academy-award winning production values to middle America, values-driven, faith-based films. The first movie is already scripted and developed with an Academy-award winning film director attached who has production and P&A financing lined up when the fund can provide a minimum of $1,000,000 in collateral.
The movie will be made for $5,000,000 and is based on a New York Times best seller. A faith-based film distributor has pledged to invest $5,000,000 in P&A funding to market the film nationally once the film is made.
The principals of the Good Faith Film Fund have experience producing, booking, releasing and distributing films that have achieved hundreds of millions of dollars in box office revenue and millions of units in DVD sales through major theatrical chains such as Regal, Cinemark, and AMC and big box retailers such as Wal-Mart, Costco, Barnes and Noble, and Books-A-Million. The fund simply needs $1,000,000 that will be placed in an interest bearing bank account to collateralize a loan that will fund the production and P&A for the movie.
The interest bearing account will pay 12% annual interest on the fund to the investor with a complete return of the capital within two years but no sooner than one, at which point if not paid back in full with promised interest, the loan will convert to a percentage in the film distribution partner’s successful 28-year old book publishing business that currently has $5,000,000 in annual revenues and is growing.. .
Bridal Expressions LLC
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Bridal Expressions is the source for wedding dresses and prom dresses. Located in Sandy, Utah (just 10 minutes south of Salt Lake City), Bridal Expressions is a must see for the bride who wants a designer wedding dress.
Contemporary styling and unmatched quality are the priorities of our bridal store. Our goal is to help you find your perfect wedding dress.
Our expert in-store seamstress, huge selection, and unsurpassed customer service will make your experience at Bridal Expressions unforgettable. When you’re looking for a strapless or modest wedding dress with unique style and exquisite detail, think Bridal Expressions.
Whether you’re looking for a temple ready dress for an LDS wedding or want a strapless wedding dress, Bridal Expressions is the premiere source.â€If you shop here first you won’t want to shop anywhere else.â€. .
Top Gun Review
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Top Gun Review offers its users with reviews, ranks, and comparisons of various firearms on the market.
WKRB
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WKRB format may have changed over the years, but our mission hasn’t–to cover a wide range of business, technology, world, political.
TruTower
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TruTower is a news website that offers mobile VoIP application news, information, and tutorials for Android, Windows, iOS, and other operating systems and platforms. It also provides global roaming SIM card news and information for international travelers, students, and business professionals.
TruTower was launched on January 11, 2012.. .
City of South Salt Lake
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City of South Salt Lake provides information on services and happenings of South Salt Lake.
Broadway Media
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Broadway Media is a broadcast media company providing radio services.
Mormon Stories podcast
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Exploring, celebrating and challenging Mormon culture through stories
Watch Play Read
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Watch Play Read is an online platform that offers reviews, interviews, and opinions on all consumable media.
CMI
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CMI offers paid-in-advance subscriptions services for the newspaper industry, including business, newsroom, circulation and marketing.
ImageStockhouse
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ImageStockhouse is a picture agency specializing in managing & licensing Action/Adventure Sports and Iconic Imagery.
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