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
Another Colorado newspaper is changing hands, and how it happened once again underscores the ways people involved in Colorado journalism are thinking about the future of local news. From a
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
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