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Dec 31, 2025
COLab highlights events of interest to local journalists and to our fellow Coloradans. What are we missing? We want to hear from you. To suggest
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Dec 31, 2025
COLab highlights events of interest to local journalists and to our fellow Coloradans. What are we missing? We want to hear from you. To suggest
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Dec 31, 2025
COLab highlights trainings and workshops relevant to journalism. What are we missing? We want to hear from you. To suggest an upcoming training or workshop
Info Session: Lenfest’s Beyond Print Grant Program
For the past year, The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, In partnership with API, has led the Beyond Print program to support publishers as they transition away from print-centric revenue models toward a sustainable digital future. This new grant program offers up to $25,000 for news organizations to undertake experiments that will result in transformative change …
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Mini-Bootcamp Online: Web Scraping with Python
In this bootcamp being offered December 4-7th from 10 a.m- 1 p.m. (MT), learn how you can use the Python programming language to scrape data from the web. In this advanced online mini-bootcamp, we’ll cover: Using built-in browser tools to target page elements for extractionSetting up a Python project with a virtual environment, using Jupyter …
RJI Women in Journalism Workshop 2024
The Women in Journalism Workshop is an annual workshop that focuses on challenges, accomplishments and issues specific to women in the journalism industry today. We want to help build safer, more diverse and innovative newsrooms to serve our communities worldwide. You will learn how to innovate the way you cover stories, the management of newsrooms and teams and …
New Innovation and Sustainability Initiative to Explore Five Wicked Problems
We are excited to announce COLab will be partnering with Colorado Press Association and Colorado Media Project on a series of media-industry-led working groups that aim to tackle some of the most pressing challenges facing our industry — from growing our digital products to building pathways for a more diverse generation of journalists and more. …
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Amplify Colorado
Amplify Colorado Diverse Source Guide aims to ensure that Colorado’s local and statewide news coverage is more equitable and better reflects the communities it serves. The guide is a response to a call from community members and journalists of color who want to strengthen the relationship between newsrooms and Coloradans from diverse backgrounds of all …
Watchdog Fund: Support for Colorado Journalists Reporting on Inequities
Colorado journalists and media makers who need access to public records in order to investigate and report on social, economic, racial and other inequities can now find support from a new “watchdog fund” established by the Colorado Media Project. Seeded by The Colorado Trust, the fund will reimburse qualified applicants for money they spend on …
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Colorado: Share Your Idea for a Collaborative Project
In 2023, we’re taking collaborative journalism to a new level in Colorado. COLab staff and news partners will work together to produce four major collaborative projects – one each quarter – on topics you and your communities find important. And we’ll help you find ways to engage with your community and generate revenue around the …
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United States Journalism Emergency Fund
Requests will be reviewed on an ongoing basis in the order they were received. Learn more by visiting IWMF. The International Women’s Media Foundation has partnered with the Craig Newmark Philanthropies to establish the United States Journalism Emergency Fund to directly support U.S. journalists in need so they can resume work essential to our functioning democracy. Applicants must …
The Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund
Applications for support as well as donations to the fund are accepted on an ongoing basis. The Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund (BJTRF), founded by Sonia Weiser in May 2020, is designed to provide financial assistance for Black journalists facing financial hardship who are unable to pay for the mental health support they need during …
Emergency Grants for Coverage of Threats to Democracy in the U.S.
Through the Fund for Investigative Journalism, emergency grants are available for investigative stories that break new ground and expose wrongdoing in the public or private sectors related to threats to democracy. These can include, for example, investigative stories on barriers to voting, voter suppression, misinformation, political influence in election systems, efforts to undermine the rule …
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Protecting Journalists Pro Bono Program
Often journalists are subpoenaed to testify in litigation where they are not a party, but a topic about which they have previously published content is relevant to the litigation. Where the journalists have been subpoenaed, the Protecting Journalists seeks to defend their right to protect their confidential sources and materials gathered in the course of …
Responsible Reporting on Suicide for Journalists
Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide, and groups like the CDC and WHO have identified training journalists to responsibly report on the topic as a key priority for prevention. Carter Center fellow Aneri Pattani (’19-’20) has helped create a free, online course to do just that. Through lectures, readings, and interactive practice activities, …
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Apply to Mentor a Vet
Military Veterans in Journalism (MVJ) is a professional association that creates community for vets, supports their career growth, and advocates for increasing newsroom diversity through hiring more vets. Are you a journalist interested in helping develop the careers of military vets in journalism? If so, apply to become a mentor. You must have three years …
Apply for a Military Veterans in Journalism Grant
Military Veterans in Journalism (MVJ) offers Journalism Grants for quality stories about issues related to disabilities in the military veteran community. This program helps aspiring journalists grow professionally in their reporting careers and publish quality stories about issues related to disabilities in the military veteran community. Grant amounts vary depending on the story, and start …
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Receive Individual Advice on Your Local Investigative Project
ProPublica‘s Local Reporting Network (LRN), which focuses on supporting local and regional newsrooms to produce journalism that affects their communities, is hosting “Office Hours” so journalists can get advice on shaping a local investigative project. Sign up through this form and upload a one-page description of the project or ideas you have in mind. You’ll be paired with a …
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Journalists Trauma Support Network Resources
The Journalists Trauma Support Network (JTSN) is a project of The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. As stated on the JTSN website, “Journalists serve society on the frontlines, and often take on the trauma of the stories they cover. Too often this trauma goes unnoticed and untreated. [JTSN is] building a community to change …
Need a Scientist-Source for a Story Right Now?
From SciLine: Our free Expert Matching service runs from 6am to 6pm MT on weekdays. We ask for at least 2 working hours of lead time to fulfill source requests. We welcome requests from professional journalists reporting for general-interest news outlets that primarily serve a U.S. audience. We especially encourage local, general assignment, and other …
Freelance Investigative Reporters and Editors: Free Consultancy
Two-hour advice sessions for reporting and legal services FIRE offers a range of direct reporting services for individual investigative freelancers in the form of two unique programs—a FIRE Consultancy and a Virtual Newsroom. All FIRE applicants must apply for the FIRE Consultancy. If selected, a recipient may be invited to apply for the Virtual Newsroom, which comes …
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Freelance Investigative Reporters and Editors: Grants and Custom Services for Independent Reporters
FIRE offers a range of direct reporting services for individual investigative freelancers in the form of two unique programs that are used in sequence—a FIRE Consultancy and a Virtual Newsroom. Applicants would first apply to the FIRE Consultancy; and, if selected, may be invited to apply for the Virtual Newsroom, which comes with grants, as detailed below. For …
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