Jack Dodson

Haifa, Lima, Maine

Reporter and Videographer at Freelance

Journalist & filmmaker. Focused on areas where law and justice are not the same thing. Freelancer, but mainly building @entropyjourn with colleagues.

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TikTok ban: Utah's digital economy transformed

Mar 14, 2025 | utahbusiness.com | Jack Dodson

This story appears in the March 2025 issue of Utah Business. Subscribe. In early February, President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for the secretaries of the treasury and commerce to form a sovereign wealth fund within 90 days that could potentially buy TikTok.
Utah housing crisis: Housing deficit spurs creative development

Feb 27, 2025 | utahbusiness.com | Jack Dodson

This story appears in the 2025 Advisor, a publication sponsored by Colliers Utah. Clark Ivory, CEO of Utah’s Ivory Homes, is waiting for innovation in the housing market. The last major idea to boost home accessibility, he says, was the development of the 30-year mortgage just after World War II. Closing in on a century later, the housing market across the country is in a bind, tied up by changing work and cultural habits that are exacerbating outdated policies and infrastructure.
UTOPIA Fiber and the battle for broadband

Jan 30, 2025 | utahbusiness.com | Jack Dodson |Mekenna Malan

The crowd on July 11, 2023, was larger than usual for city council hearings. Bountiful City Manager Gary Hill got up to give a presentation on the city’s deal with UTOPIA Fiber, noting that the potential of contracting with the public-owned broadband agency had drawn significant interest. “It’s not often we have a mostly full room,” Councilman Jesse Bell said as he introduced Hill.
2024 Utah Business Leaders of the Year: Luigi Resta

Jan 23, 2025 | utahbusiness.com | Jack Dodson

Utah Business proudly presents this year’s cohort of our Leaders of the Year award. These 12 honorees represent accomplishments of Utah’s business community in 2024 and were selected by the Utah Business editorial team. President | rPlus Energiesin/luigi-resta-63371a5Luigi Resta was in the middle of a walkabout in his home state of California, considering how to move forward with his career in renewable energy, when he got a call.
Nonprofit overhead myths harm organizations’ ability to pay staff

Jan 9, 2025 | utahbusiness.com | Jack Dodson

This story appears in the August issue of Utah Business. Subscribe. Imagine two organizations operating on the same street. Both do frontline community work to provide basic needs and are dealing with fairly tight budgets. Both have leaky roofs. One has 15 percent of its budget going to overhead, a figure that Jill Bennett, CEO of the Utah Nonprofits Association, says gets treated as the “gold standard” by boards and donors — a goal increasingly portrayed as a myth by nonprofit administrators.
Protect your small business from cybercrime

Jan 9, 2025 | utahbusiness.com | Jack Dodson

The patchwork of jurisdictions and oversight that makes up the United States criminal justice system gets far more complicated than usual with cybercrimes. Attackers are hard to find, if they can be tracked at all, and are rarely within the same geographical region. When businesses find themselves the victim of a cyberattack, there is essentially one legal option: Report the incident to the police.
A lesson in community investment

Jan 9, 2025 | utahbusiness.com | Jack Dodson

In Utah, businesses aren’t just entities of commerce; they are integral proponents of a healthy, collaborative community. Utah enterprises also showcase an unwavering belief in the power of education. Companies like Beehive Meals, for example, donate food to public schools. In November 2022, the Utah Jazz partnered with Mark Miller Subaru to donate almost $30,000 to renovate West Lake STEM Junior High’s computer lab.
Guest Viewpoint: Eight years later, UO’s fossil fuel divestment is heading in the wrong direction

Oct 28, 2024 | dailyemerald.com | Jack Dodson

This piece reflects the views of the author, Jack Dodson, and not those of Emerald Media Group. It has been edited by the Emerald for grammar and style. Send your columns or submissions about our content or campus issues to [email protected]. The UO Foundation, which manages the $2.8 billion endowment of the University of Oregon, has been lying to us for 8 years.
Employee performance improves when companies take a holistic approach

Oct 2, 2024 | utahbusiness.com | Jack Dodson

This article spotlights esteemed performance experts slated to present at Utah Business Forward. With six distinct tracks covering acquisition, AI, branding, entrepreneurship, people and culture, and performance, this dynamic event will take place on November 20, 2024, at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City. Unlocking exceptional employee performance is one of Utah’s business leaders’ most important areas of focus. When individuals succeed, companies succeed.
Nonprofit overhead myths harm organizations' ability to pay staff

Aug 16, 2024 | utahbusiness.com | Jack Dodson

This story appears in the August issue of Utah Business. Subscribe. Imagine two organizations operating on the same street. Both do frontline community work to provide basic needs and are dealing with fairly tight budgets. Both have leaky roofs. One has 15 percent of its budget going to overhead, a figure that Jill Bennett, CEO of the Utah Nonprofits Association, says gets treated as the “gold standard” by boards and donors — a goal increasingly portrayed as a myth by nonprofit administrators.