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OGDEN -- Charles Horton III was named publisher of the Standard-Examiner and vice president of Ogden Publishing Corporation and will start work in Ogden March 18.

The tablet could be just what the doctor ordered for the ailing newspaper industry.

The Pew Research Center’s annual Project for Excellence report indicates that the growing number of tablet computers and smartphones is contributing to an influx of people returning to traditional news sources, like newspapers, online. The growing use of social media has also led to more digital exposure to news stories through referrals.

We’ve seen this trend in our own analytics. Traffic to our mobile site has doubled in the last year, especially since we introduced an app.

OGDEN — Juvenile Court Judge Janice Frost ruled Thursday that all future actions in her court will be open if they are connected with Joshua Hoggan, one of two youths charged with plotting to explode a bomb at Roy High School.

Frost said Utah law and the public’s interest in her court’s decisions outweigh whether Hoggan will be embarrassed, or his ability to be rehabilitated harmed, by public access.

LOGAN -- A Utah newspaper is announcing it will no longer print a Monday edition.

Alyssa Roberts is, without a doubt, the youngest person you'll currently find in our newsroom.

She is a senior at Davis High School and our current high school intern.

The high school interns, usually one per semester, work under the direction of Becky Cairns, a feature writer and editor of the award-winning weekly TX.

OGDEN — Mike Taylor would like people to understand a few things that are crystal clear to him:

People with disabilities need to know they can find employment if they work hard and get really good at a skill that interests them.

And employers need to know that disabled people make great employees because they love their job, they are rarely late or unfocused, and they know the value of a job, so they are loyal.