Lee Benson

Lee Benson (born August 25, 1948) is an American known for his long association with the Deseret News. He began his career as a sports journalist and has covered at least nine Olympic Games for the paper, before moving on to emphasize general news and often covering Mormon issues.

Benson is a 1976 graduate of Brigham Young University. He has been sports editor of the Deseret News and as of the beginning of 2012 was a columnist for the news who wrote on metro-Salt Lake City issues.

Benson was born in Sandy, Utah. the uncle of Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped from her family's home in a high-profile 2002 case.

His 1997 book Blind Trust discussed the short, scandal-plagued term of Enid Greene, who was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives from Utah.

He co-authored golfer Billy Casper's 2012 autobiography, The Big Three And Me, with Casper and James Parkinson.