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Colorado News group
The Colorado News Group, hosted by the Colorado News Collaborative (COLab), is open to COLab partners, Colorado Press Association members, and invited guests for the purpose of sharing information and asking questions.
Members of Colorado’s news media community — and in particular, COLab partners or individuals working for a COLab partner newsroom and/or CPA members or individuals working for a CPA member newsroom — you may request to join the Colorado News Group.
Option A — if you have a Google account:
- Please visit the following link from your Google account: https://groups.google.com/a/colabnews.co/g/conewsgroup/about
- Once there, click “Ask to join group.”
- In the form that pops up, be sure to provide your name and your connection to COLab and/or CPA and/or Colorado media, and click “Ask to join.” We’ll take it from there!
Option B — if you do not have a Google account:
- First, you’ll need to associate your email address with a Google Account. Here are instructions on how to create a Google account without changing your email address.
- Once you’ve created the Google account, please follow the instructions outlined in Option A above.
Have you accepted your invitation to the Colorado news Group? Then you’re ready to participate!
To initiate a message to the entire group, write to ColoradoNewsGroup@colabnews.co.
When you receive a message from the group, the email subject starts with [COLORADO NEWS GROUP].
Hitting “Reply” to a group message will send your reply to EVERYONE in the group.
If you wish to respond to an individual only, please use their direct email rather than “Reply.”
Colorado News Group Guidelines and Etiquette
Guidelines for Use
- The purpose of this community is for COLab partners, CPA members, and invited individuals to support one another. Kindly remember to be respectful toward others.
- Users agree to reserve discussions for topics that help other group members improve their journalism, address ethical issues in news or grow revenue and audiences to expand their impact. That might include, but is not limited to: soliciting the advice of peers; learning from their experiences; sharing resources and opportunities, and participating in the ongoing dialogue.
- Discussions are meant to stimulate respectful and productive conversation. Communications involving insults, attacks, derogatory comments or other disparaging behavior may lead to the suspension or removal of an account from the group.
- If participants wish to disagree or challenge statements by others, they should do so without demeaning or directing hostility at the original poster.
- As in all professional settings, please, avoid inappropriate political, religious, and sexual references.
- Users should not harvest email addresses from the community for purposes outside the group.
- Commercial messages, including solicitations for money, goods or services for charitable purposes or private gain are not allowed, nor are postings relating to actual or potential unlawful or unethical practices, or are false, misleading or fraudulent.
- The community should not be used to promote advocacy efforts other than First Amendment or freedom of the press issues.
- Communications originating from the community are for subscribers, COLab partners, CPA members, and invited individuals. They should not be shared externally without the prior written permission of the original author.
Etiquette
- Be considerate of your colleagues’ inboxes by using the group mailing list for messages relevant to people involved in Colorado news. If a discussion develops into an exchange between two parties, the conversation should move to direct communications between them.
- To unsubscribe from the list, follow the directions at the bottom of the group email message. Administrative messages, such as “remove me from the list,” should not be sent through the group.
- COLab does not screen or pre-review posted content. Complaints about content may be directed to COLab at info@colabnews.co.
The above was borrowed from the Terms of Use for INN’s Listserv and Peer Communities.