Outside Experts to Probe 'Salt Lake Trib'

By: Lucia Moses The Salt Lake Tribune, trying to recover from The National Enquirer scandal, brought in a journalism professor and ethicists to independently put the Salt Lake City paper's practices under a microscope, said William Dean Singleton, vice chairman and CEO of the Tribune's parent MediaNews Group Inc. in Denver.

Two Tribune reporters were fired after admitting to selling rumors about the Elizabeth Smart case to the supermarket tabloid for $20,000. Editor James E. Shelledy resigned Thursday over his handling of the case.

Joel Campbell, a professor at Brigham Young University, will write a report on the affair that will run unedited in the paper, and two faculty members at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., will review the paper's rules and procedures, Singleton said. "We need to make sure we've done everything we can."