Better News for all Coloradans

Imagine a newsroom where the editor is also the publisher, sometimes the delivery driver, and even—on occasion—the janitor. That’s the reality for many local journalists today, like Dave Perry of the Aurora Sentinel. Despite nearly $30 billion in philanthropic investment in media since 2009, newsrooms like his remain understaffed, overburdened and unable to fully leverage the resources available to them. Why hasn’t all that funding solved the crisis? In this compelling Wolzien Lecture at the...