Great Salt Lake Collaborative wins national journalism prize

The Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a coalition of 23 news and education partners covering challenges facing the Great Salt Lake, took home the top prize of $20,000 in the national “Local that Works” contest (https://current.org/2022/11/great-salt-lake-collaborative-wins-2022-local-that-works-award/?wallit_nosession=1). The award is a project of Current, a nonprofit news organization that covers public media for industry professionals. Finalists were chosen from a pool of 96 public broadcasters, nonprofit newsrooms and other media groups. The collaborative has produced over 150 stories covering issues like the Great Salt Lake’s dwindling water levels and solutions for abating the crisis, such as the project “At Water's Edge,” (https://www.deseret.com/interactive/2022/10/14/what-happens-if-great-salt-lake-dries-up-solutions) published by Deseret News. Heather May, project manager of the collaborative, said, “I think the focus on solutions is what has brought hope to the community, which I think everyone is yearning for.”