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Sheila R. McCann

Senior Managing Editor

Managing editor Sheila McCann has reported and edited at newspapers in Washington state, Idaho and at The Salt Lake Tribune. She has guided projects that have won regional and national journalism awards, including campus sexual assault coverage that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) US Magnesium, which has ceased operations at the magnesium plant on the western edge of the Great Salt Lake, is pictured on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024. On Friday, a Utah judge appointed a receiver to take over the company, after state officials argued it was failing to do work required under a 2021 settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Utah argues US Magnesium is ‘unable or unwilling’ to protect the Great Salt Lake as judge appoints outsider to run the company

By Megan Banta | Shannon Sollitt | Sheila McCann | December 16, 2024, 9:30 p.m.

(Fox13) NAMI Utah Executive Director Rob Wesemann is interviewed on Fox13's show "The Place" in 2021.

NAMI Utah halts all mental health classes and support groups, citing financial problems

By Sean P. Means | Sheila McCann | Paighten Harkins | October 2, 2024, 11:28 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Three helicopters were being used Sunday morning to help fight the Sandhurst Fire.

Ensign Peak fire evacuation order is lifted, with blaze 10% contained

By Yeonseung Kim | Sheila McCann | July 22, 2024, 4:15 a.m.

(Utah State Historical Society) Workers at a uranium mine near Moab in the 1950s. The demand for uranium, brought on by the Cold War, fostered a fair number of scam artists selling shares of Utah uranium mines that were not actually created — which prompted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to open its first office in Salt Lake City in 1954.

Salt Lake City was once dubbed a ‘stock fraud capital.’ Here’s why.

By Shannon Sollitt | Sheila McCann | June 5, 2024, 6:41 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Construction of a new Cubby's location nears completion in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, March 6, 2024. The exit for its drive-thru will be near the entrance of the drive-thru for a nearby Beans & Brews.

Sugar House is getting a new drive-thru, eatery says, despite recent ban in neighborhood

By Sheila McCann | Jordan Miller | March 7, 2024, 1:00 p.m.

(Sheila R. McCann | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Atre Sugar House development, a project that involves general contractor Maker's Line, is planned to include a complex at 1121 E. Ashton Avenue with 228 units. The site was formerly a 24 Hour Fitness gym.

What will happen to high-profile construction in Salt Lake City as contractor Makers Line goes silent?

By Shannon Sollitt | Sheila McCann | November 3, 2023, 12:10 a.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The cheer team celebrates as the Utah Utes host the Florida Gators in Salt Lake City on Aug. 31, 2023. The University of Utah is the state's flagship campus, one of eight public colleges and universities.

Utah universities and colleges range from big research centers to smaller college-town campuses

By Sheila McCann | Carmen Nesbitt | October 3, 2023, 12:02 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) So far, Skyline High School in Millcreek hasn’t had to turn away students who live outside its boundaries but want to attend, said Granite School District spokesperson Ben Horsley. But that may change as it opens new facilities.

Utah open enrollment: What it means for your kids

By Michael Lee | Sheila McCann | September 28, 2023, 12:07 p.m.

(Uintah County Regional History Center) The Uintah Boarding School in Whiterocks is seen in this photo from about 1912. Laundry and farm outbuildings are visible behind the three main school and dormitory buildings in front.

Forced labor by Ute students included “the most distasteful drudgery”

By Sheila McCann | September 4, 2023, 4:50 p.m.

(Uintah County Regional History Center) The reservation boarding school for Ute children in Whiterocks is seen in this photo from about 1912. Farm and laundry buildings are visible behind the main school buildings.

Ute children were forced to dig ditches, haul water, hand-wash thousands of loads of laundry

By Sheila McCann | July 20, 2023, 5:31 p.m.

(Keith Secola Jr. | Special to The Tribune)

What was life like in the Indian boarding schools for Utes in eastern Utah? Explore first-person accounts.

By Courtney Tanner | Sheila McCann | July 20, 2023, 8:00 p.m.

(Utah Digital Newspapers) Headlines from the Uintah Basin Farmer in 1927, top left, and from The Salt Lake Tribune in 1900, top right and bottom, reported the deaths of Ute students at the federal Indian boarding schools in Whiterocks and Randlett.

Ute Indian boarding schools saw nearly 60 student deaths

By Sheila McCann | Courtney Tanner | July 15, 2023, 5:14 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Longtime Highland High School teacher and counselor Dean Collett was honored at a memorial on the school's football field, where he never missed a game, on Friday, June 23, 2023.

‘Mr. Highland’: Celebrated Highland High teacher, counselor Dean Collett dies at 94

By Michael Lee | Sheila McCann | June 16, 2023, 12:11 p.m.

Utah tech layoffs continue, as yet another company valued over $1B sheds hundreds of workers

By Paighten Harkins | Sheila McCann | December 12, 2022, 11:28 p.m.

Polygamous leader Samuel Bateman had 20 wives, according to FBI

By Sheila McCann | Trent Nelson | December 6, 2022, 2:28 p.m.

Hair taken from Ute Tribe decades ago will be returned, as Harvard museum apologizes for its ‘objectification’

By Sheila McCann | Scott D. Pierce | November 13, 2022, 6:12 a.m.

Here’s why Utah doctors are worried about how well you’ll be breathing this winter

By Sheila McCann | Paighten Harkins | October 27, 2022, 9:16 p.m.

‘We can’t afford these luxuries’: Parents blast Jordan school board’s $30 million tax increase

By Connor Sanders | Sheila McCann | August 4, 2022, 7:34 p.m.

Las escuelas se están vaciando en el lado este del Valle de Salt Lake y se están desbordando en el oeste. Este es el porqué.

By Connor Sanders | Sheila McCann | June 14, 2022, 5:01 p.m.

Schools are emptying on the Salt Lake Valley’s east side and overflowing in the west. Here’s why.

By Connor Sanders | Sheila McCann | May 24, 2022, 3:41 p.m.