(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake County Council member Dave Alvord shakes hands with people gathered inside the Salt Lake County Government Center chamber in 2022.
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Blake joined The Tribune in March 2022 to cover city and county government before becoming an editor in 2024. He is a University of Minnesota graduate who started his journalism career in Las Vegas, where he covered local government, state politics and the depletion of the Colorado River. He is dad to a Golden Retriever named Woodward.