"I believe in the free press . . . ," Ivory said. "I can promise you I won't meddle in any coverage."

Also a member of the board and executive committee of Hogle Zoo, Ivory ran last year for the position of Salt Lake County mayor. He has served as a missionary and mission president for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and has been active in several other civic and political roles.

Snarr served 14 years as chairman and chief executive of the EvansGroup advertising and public relations agency, prior to which he had worked as a reporter, city editor and executive news editor of the Deseret News.

During his time as chairman, the newspaper was involved in ongoing litigation against the former owners of The Salt Lake Tribune; formed a new partnership in its joint operating agreement with Singleton, the Tribune's new owner; oversaw the shift from afternoon to morning delivery and the resulting change in the newspaper's name; and presided during a time of increasing circulation.

"All of those things have been nice accomplishments," Snarr said.

Snarr also has assisted with planning for the new NAC press facility, an $84 million building at the corner of 5600 West and 4700 South in West Valley City that is expected to be completed in spring 2006.

Nilson is president of Nilson-Newey & Co. Inc., a financial and estate planning firm he helped found in 1961.

Other members of the Deseret Morning News board will continue to be Joseph A. Cannon, chairman of the Utah Republican Party's Central Committee and partner in the law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman; Ruth Lybbert Renlund, an attorney with the Salt Lake firm of Dewsnup, King & Olsen; and H.E. "Bud" Scruggs, vice president of Leucadia National Corp.

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