Jennifer Napier-Pearce
{{short description|American journalist}}
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| education = University of Utah, Stanford
| nationality = American, Tongan-American
| occupation = Former Editor of The Salt Lake Tribune
| spouse = John A. Pearce
| known_for = Salt Lake Tribune and RadioWest
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Jennifer Napier-Pearce is an American journalist and former editor of The Salt Lake Tribune. She joined the Tribune in January 2013 as a business writer, before becoming host of the daily video program "Trib Talk" and the weekly radio news show "Behind the Headlines." She was named editor in August 2016.{{cite web |last1=Semerad |first1=Tony |title=Tribune's new editor brings 'commitment to creating quality local news' at a 'pivotal time' |url=https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=4278851&itype=CMSID |website=Salt Lake Tribune |access-date=23 May 2019}} Prior to coming to the Tribune, Napier-Pearce was news director and reporter for KUER and KCPW.
She has been an adjunct professor at the University of Utah. She received a BA in English from the University of Utah in 1991 and an MA in Journalism from Stanford University in 1998.{{cite web |title=Jennifer Napier-Pearce |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-napier-pearce-44505112/ |website=LinkedIn |access-date=23 May 2019}}
She resigned as editor in August 2020, citing differences with board chairman Paul Huntsman.{{cite web |last1=Donaldson |first1=Amy |title=Citing differences with board chairman, Tribune editor Jennifer Napier-Pearce resigns |url=https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/8/5/21356363/tribune-editor-jennifer-napier-pearce-resigns-differences-with-board-chair-paul-huntsman |website=Deseret News |access-date=15 Aug 2020}}
She grew up in Magna UT, with Tongan heritage on her father's side; she was known as Alisi Pahulu until changing her name to Jennifer Napier. Her husband, John A. Pearce, is a justice on the Utah Supreme Court.{{cite web |last1=Romero |first1=McKenzie |title=John Pearce sworn in as Utah Supreme Court justice |url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865646518/John-Pearce-sworn-in-as-Utah-Supreme-Court-justice.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131081217/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865646518/John-Pearce-sworn-in-as-Utah-Supreme-Court-justice.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 31, 2016 |website=Deseret News |access-date=23 May 2019}}
Salt Lake Tribune
Napier-Pearce had recently left the Tribune{{When|date=December 2020}} and was two months into a new job at the Hinckley Institute of Politics when the new owner of the Tribune, Paul Huntsman contacted her, asking to "pick her brain about the paper's direction." She was soon announced as the editor, Huntsman's first hire. She was the first Mormon editor of the newspaper.
She has been actively involved in the Tribune's move to become a non-profit.{{cite web |last1=Schmidt |first1=Christine |last2=Benton |first2=Joshua |title=The Salt Lake Tribune wants to go nonprofit in a new and unproven way, and now the IRS will have its say |url=https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/05/the-salt-lake-tribune-wants-to-go-nonprofit-in-a-new-and-unproven-way-and-now-the-irs-will-have-its-say/ |website=NiemanLab |access-date=24 May 2019}}
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Category:American people of Tongan descent
Category:21st-century American women journalists
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