Corey Hutchins

In recent years, much of Colorado’s local media scene has embraced a new orthodoxy of collaboration over competition. But the state’s lone billionaire-owned news outlet is taking a different position — and

The monthly Denver Urban Spectrum is one of six outlets in the nation chosen as part of an inaugural cohort of a Black Media Initiative Bridge Project involving audience revenue. “The six-month

A weekly newspaper that has operated since 1958 in the town of Fountain, just south of Colorado Springs, has gone out of business. “Our newspaper printed its last edition Dec.

In 2022, a nonprofit newspaper revolution hit Colorado. MmmnOK, that might be an overstatement — but as they say, three’s a trend. This past year we did see the small monthly Crestone Eagle

Less than six months after Wet Mountain Tribune Publisher Jordan Hedberg filed a federal First Amendment lawsuit against the Custer County board of commissioners, both sides have reached an initial agreement to

Earlier this year, the local government in the Southern Colorado city of Florence collapsed. “Entire City Council resigns in protest of Colorado corruption scandal,” read one March headline from KRDO-TV in Colorado

Six years ago, the last time journalists at The Denver Post received an across-the-board pay increase, an image of a vampire reading their paper with fangs bared appeared on the cover of

Another mass shooting in America, this time at Club Q in Colorado Springs, a longtime LGBTQ+ bar where a suspect on Saturday killed five during a drag show and left

The National Association of Hispanic Publications chose Denver for its annual conference and the group’s 40th anniversary. From Wednesday to Friday, nearly 100 members of the organization met at the

Colorado voters would be forgiven if they woke up Wednesday startled by election results after consulting recent coverage about what they might expect. Democrats flat-out routed Republicans up and down

Voters in Colorado’s left-leaning ski towns who last week turned to the search engines of their local newspapers to research some Democratic candidates stumbled into a mystery: There were no

A year ago, this newsletter reported how Coloradans were, for the first time, learning what our state’s newsrooms were paying for jobs in journalism. (That published post remains this newsletter’s fourth most-read

For the past several months, I’ve been working on a project with students at Colorado College and others in a series of classes called “The Future and Sustainability of Local

Steven Woodrow, a 42-year-old Democrat and lawyer who represents Denver in the Colorado House of Representatives, faced swift backlash from some in the state’s press corps this week following a

This is a special expanded edition of the “Inside the News in Colorado” newsletter. Occasionally, I’ll try to round up news from local media scenes outside Colorado to offer a

After nearly 75 years, KLMR, a local radio station serving the area around Lamar on Colorado’s Eastern Plains, has hung up its call letters and surrendered its license to the

Three’s a trend, folks. A nonprofit newspaper revolution has hit Colorado. This week, the alternative weekly in Colorado Springs, The Indy, a for-profit enterprise for three decades, announced a transformational

Vince Bzdek, editor of The Colorado Springs and Denver Gazette, authored an eyebrow-raising column this week that accused a handful of his print, digital, and radio competitors of bias while

Columbia Journalism Review this week hosted a major panel discussion called “The Objectivity Wars” that included journalists Wesley Lowery and Lewis Raven Wallace, among others. Something of a local version

Next week’s journalism-conference world welcomes a doubleheader from two powerhouse organizations in the state. The Colorado Press Association and the Colorado Media Project each are hosting overlapping conferences at the

Local TV stations can tend to hype things. They need to grab — and hold — the attention of viewers whose eyeballs could drift anytime toward any other nearby screen

This is a special expanded edition of the “Inside the News in Colorado” newsletter. Occasionally, I’ll try to round up news from local media scenes outside Colorado to offer a

Jordan Hedburg, who publishes the weekly Wet Mountain Tribune newspaper in Custer County, made good on a threat to sue two members of the county commission. A federal lawsuit he filed this

The newspaper in Colorado’s second-largest city challenged local TV coverage about fentanyl exposure and reflected a national effort among some in medicine and media to counter a persistent narrative. At

Politicians who run the local government in Pitkin County, Colorado, this week sent a message to the new out-of-state owners of The Aspen Times: The gravy train is over until

In 2019, The Salt Lake Tribune made big news when it became the first large metro newspaper to convert to a community-supported nonprofit ownership model. Since then, the Utah paper

A good old-fashioned slime-slinging 19th-century-style newspaper war is brewing in a small rural Colorado valley in the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo Range. That might come as a surprise to anyone

This is a special expanded edition of the “Inside the News in Colorado” newsletter. Occasionally, I’ll try to round up news from local media scenes outside Colorado to offer a

In the 1994 journalism film “The Paper” there’s a scene where Michael Keaton’s ink-stained-wretch character moseys into the office of his editor, Bernie White, and finds him in a particularly

Earlier this month, the weekly Sentinel Colorado newspaper in Aurora announced it would change ownership in a way that seeks to keep it in local hands. But potentially just how many local hands was something that

Six months after Ogden Newspapers of West Virginia bought The Aspen Times, the 140-year-old paper has become the subject of negative local news coverage. In recent weeks, the newspaper has

Ten journalists from a cross-section of Colorado news outlets sat for an interview this week with Yellow Scene’s Shavonne Blades. She called them “The Heroes” and put them on the cover of

A tale of two headlines Last month, Denver’s 5280 magazine asked in a headline: “Can Outside Inc. Save Outdoor Journalism?” The story examined Boulder multimillionaire Robin Thurston’s rapid consolidation of

Last week’s newsletter offered the first installment of a series here at Inside the News in Colorado called “Reimagining the public square: What’s happening in Colorado’s information ecosystem right now.”

What’s happening in Colorado’s information ecosystem right now? These are some of the players trying to strengthen and transform local journalism, battle misinformation and disinformation, bolster democracy, and help communities

This is a special, expanded edition of the “Inside the News in Colorado” newsletter. Occasionally, I’ll try to take a look at local media scenes outside Colorado to offer a

‘Went about it the way I did’ Update, 5:15 p.m. Friday: The attorney general’s office says it will not appeal a judge’s late-Friday ruling that allows the newspaper to (eventually)

‘Strong news’ The snowpack is melting, rivers are rising, green shoots poke through mulch, and “Springtime in the Rockies” means annual honors for the state’s journalists. Last week, Colorado news

This is a special, expanded edition of the “Inside the News in Colorado” newsletter. Occasionally, I’ll try to take a look at the local media scene outside Colorado to offer

‘Bad precedent’ In the months leading up to a recent local election, The Estes Park Trail-Gazette newspaper urged its readers to vote against two town ballot measures that could affect

A show ‘like they have never seen before’ The Fox affiliate in Denver will debut a new statewide politics TV morning show this weekend called Colorado Point of View. With a bold

‘Completely unprovoked’ A yet-to-be-named TV photojournalist came “face to face” with a crime story he was covering this week, Denver’s CBS affiliate reported. Around noon on March 21, anchor Kelly

‘A community effort’ In recent years, Colorado has become a clear leader in a movement toward more robust local news collaboration. Perhaps nowhere does there exist a more cohesive network of local

‘Media outlets are not the direct beneficiary’ A panel of Colorado lawmakers this week gave preliminary approval to a bill that would offer tax breaks to small businesses that advertise

‘Things are ramping up’ Northern Colorado resident Jason Van Tatenhove might be on his way to becoming something of a celebrity in the world of repentant Trump-era political figures. Ever

Plus, 9News gets sold to a hedge fund, KUNC reflects on ‘the legacy of racist Colorado media coverage,’ Denver Gazette invests in arts coverage, and more

Plus, ‘Sunshine Madness,’ the Coloradoan brings back its opinion offerings, why the Colorado Press Association opposes a recycling bill, and more

Also, the Springs alt-weekly slashes at The Gazette, KUNC ousted a longtime news leader, Colorado’s (maybe) first-ever Latino anchor team, and more

Democratic Rep. Lisa Cutter, who was responsible for our state’s relatively new media literacy program, had an idea for a bill this year aimed at boosting the bottom line for

Colorado Media Project, which underwrites this column, announced this week how nearly $1 million will flow to journalism projects at more than two dozen newsrooms and organizations statewide. The cash injection will

‘I want to see what happens’ Last Saturday, Jordan Hedberg was running a portable sawmill on his Custer County farm, turning diseased aspens into boards for a chicken shed. He

Ownership changes and new startups could reshape our local news landscape

Fallout from a bungled arrest of a Hispanic man in Westminster earlier this summer offers an opportunity for news organizations to reconsider the ways they typically report incidents publicized by

You might have heard how “news deserts” are spreading and professional reporter ranks are dwindling — around the country and here in Colorado.  The consequences aren’t pretty. When local news

Typically, when Dean Schiller is looking to film law enforcement activity, he seeks something out by listening to a police scanner. On Monday, he said the something came to him.

The other day, while reading the local newspaper on my iPhone, I actually stopped to think about something I typically ignore. About halfway through an otherwise credible news story was

In 1864, when U.S. cavalry troops slaughtered more than 100 Cheyenne and Arapaho in what became known as the Sand Creek Massacre, The Rocky Mountain News didn’t report it as