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."
[1] Prior to coming to the Tribune, Napier-Pearce was news director and reporter for KUER and KCPW.
[2] She resigned as editor in August 2020, citing differences with board chairman Paul Huntsman.
[3] 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.
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."