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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
OLab highlights trainings and workshops of interest to local journalists. What are we missing? We want to hear from you. To suggest an upcoming training
Solutions Journalism: New Ways of Elevating Your Reporting and Engaging Audiences
The Knight Center has joined forces with the Solutions Journalism Network to bring you a new free online course “Solutions journalism: New ways of elevating your reporting and engaging audiences.” Solutions journalism can help you create rigorous and compelling reporting about people who are trying to find solutions to address some of today’s most pressing …
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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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Interview Opportunity with Dr. Hilary Seligman: Food Insecurity on the Rise
Presented by Experts on Camera from SciLine: Food Insecurity Food insecurity—lacking consistent access to enough nutritious food—was already on the rise in the U.S. when SNAP benefits (food stamps) were cut this spring for residents of 35 states. Available Expert: Dr. Hilary Seligman is a professor of medicine and of epidemiology and biostatistics, at the University of California, San …
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2023 NAJA-AAJA Pacific Islander Journalism Scholarship
The NAJA-AAJA Pacific Islander Journalism Scholarship Fund is intended to grow the number of Pacific Islander journalists and support their success. Scholarships are intended to help Indigenous peoples of the Pacific, particularly Polynesians, Micronesians and Melanesians, pursue careers in journalism, especially in the U.S. and U.S.-affiliated Pacific islands. Administered by the Native American Journalists Association, …
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Rural Reporting Grants
Grist and the Center for Rural Strategies are offering $100,000 in reporting grants for stories that focus on and serve rural communities in the United States. Interested newsrooms and freelancers may apply using this online form until June 1, 2023. Applicants can request up to $5,000 per project for freelancers and up to $10,000 per project for newsrooms. Decisions will …
Poynter: Lead With Influence
From Poynter: If you have the official title of project manager or product manager, or are in the position of being responsible for outcomes without formally supervising anyone (including those all-important bridge roles in audience, innovation and strategy), this program is for you. You might oversee a big investigation, a rewrite of your standards and …
Workforce Development Pathways / Internship Cohort Meeting Part V
Are you in higher education and looking for internship opportunities for your students? Are you a newsroom planning to host an internship program this summer? If so, join the Workforce Development Pathways working group for our May call. Because this work is timely and summer is fast approaching, this group will convene four times between …
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Interview Opportunity with Dr. Meredithe McNamara: Gender Transition in Young People
Presented by Experts on Camera from SciLine: Gender transition in young people Some states are prohibiting minors from receiving medical care related to gender transition, or imposing other restrictions such as limiting transgender children’s participation in sports, their use of bathrooms or locker rooms, or any discussion of pronouns in schools. Available Expert: Dr. Meredithe McNamara is …
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AI’s Legal Impact
When ChatGPT-4 passed the bar exam it made headlines. But what does it really mean? As we’re confronted by fast-moving advances in the artificial intelligence landscape, the National Press Foundation offers this webinar for journalists and lawyers alike assessing the risks and opportunities of generative AI. Register to submit questions for the panel of experts …
Interview Opportunity with Dr. Brandon Marshall: Overdose Prevention Centers and Naloxone
Presented by Experts on Camera from SciLine: Overdose Prevention To curb the opioid crisis, some cities and states are opening overdose prevention centers where controlled substances can be used under professional supervision. Others are finding new ways to distribute naloxone, a medication that rapidly reverses an opioid overdose, to first responders and members of the …
IRE 2023 — Save the Date
IRE’s annual investigative journalism conference will take place in Orlando, Florida June 22-25, 2023. The conference will feature panels and discussions as well as opportunities to network with fellow journalists. Sign up for the IRE23 email newsletter to receive major updates and reminders of key dates/deadlines surrounding the conference.
Interview Opportunity With Dr. Jasmine Travers: Short-Staffed Nursing Homes
Presented by Experts on Camera from SciLine: Short-Staffed Nursing Homes Eighty-four percent of nursing homes report moderate or high levels of staffing shortages, according to an industry survey from December Available Expert: Dr. Jasmine Travers is a gerontological nurse practitioner and an assistant professor of nursing at New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She can …
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NAJA 2023 National Native Media Conference
The Native American Journalists Association will host the 2023 National Native Media Conference Aug. 10-12 downtown at the Delta Hotel and RBC Convention Center Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. This year marks 40 years that Indigenous journalists have worked to support and sustain NAJA. Originally formed as the Native American Press Association in 1983, the name changed …
Online News Association Conference
Mark your calendar! ONA 23 will be held in Philadelphia, PA from August 23-26, 2023. More details to come! Visit ONA for more details.
Mini-Bootcamp Online: R for Data Analysis
R is a free, open-source and powerful programming language for cleaning, analyzing and visualizing data, as well as statistical analysis. This bootcamp being offered September 18-21 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., (CT) will cover all those skills, starting with the building blocks of importing and performing basic analysis on data. This bootcamp is for …
2023 Annual Colorado Press Association Convention
2023 Convention Save the date! The 2023 Annual CPA Convention is scheduled for September 28-30, 2023 in Denver, CO. More information to come regarding logistics, including hotel, speakers, awards ceremony, etc.
The Covering Science Slack: A Peer-Mentoring Community
The Open Notebook is a non-profit organization that provides tools and resources to help science, environmental, and health journalists at all experience levels sharpen their skills. The organization has also published several resources specific to local journalism. You’re invited to join a *free* peer-mentoring community for local and general assignment reporters and editors called the Covering Science Slack. …
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Poynter’s Beat Academy
Poynter’s Beat Academy is a virtual classroom designed to provide journalists from any newsroom the skills to tackle emerging coverage areas, like private equity, and better grounding on key topics like immigration, climate change response, federal infrastructure dollars and more. Pick the sessions you need the most or attend all 18 over eight months. Sign …
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 …
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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