In an alarming act against press freedom and your right to know, Sandra Fish, a seasoned Colorado Sun reporter, was
The Colorado News Collaborative (COLab), Colorado Press Association, Colorado Broadcasters Association, Colorado Media
More than two dozen Colorado newsrooms have launched an unprecedented collaboration to better cover the 2024 elections.
Update: The Colorado House passed SB 24-132 on a 50-11 vote on Monday, Apr. 8, sending the bill to Gov. Jared Polis. A
Over the years, Colorado Republicans in this one-party state that is controlled overwhelmingly by Democrats have
The board president of the Colorado Press Association, Brian Porter, resigned his position this week after the news
The draft of an annual financial report prepared by Durango city officials for later submission to the state auditor is
News on the newspaper printing front in Colorado in the past year — or few years — has been bleak. In
This year has already been brutal for the local media business with layoffs lashing newsrooms coast to coast at outlets
💊 This week’s newsletter was produced in recovery mode, sidelined by an unfun medical issue — so it’s
State lawmakers could voluntarily post drafts of proposed legislation — before legislative sessions begin — on a
This week, a cluster of Colorado foundations announced they have joined a national fundraising campaign to galvanize
The town board of Del Norte violated the Colorado Open Meetings Law by censuring a fellow board member during a closed
Denying a Pagosa Springs lawyer legal standing to sue a school district because he doesn’t live within its boundaries
Two high-profile businessmen and major developers in Colorado’s second-largest city have become the new owners of the
Records custodians would have the power to deem someone a “vexatious requester” and bar that person from obtaining
A legislative committee Wednesday narrowly endorsed a proposed $150,000 study by the Colorado Attorney General on ways
Nearly six years after then-Gov. John Hickenlooper vetoed a bill to seal autopsy reports on minors, Colorado’s county
This week, John Hickenlooper, who represents Colorado in the U.S. Senate, spoke at a CU Boulder conference where he
More than two months after BusinessDen asked a judge to set aside her contempt threat against reporter Justin
Colorado Media Project, which underwrites this newsletter, announced this week how more than $360,000 will flow to
The state’s second-highest court Thursday affirmed a judge’s order to disclose video surveillance footage showing
A judge will decide whether disciplinary records about the former police chief of Elizabeth are “personnel files”
Earlier this month, a mysterious billowy object similar in size and shape to a paper IKEA floor lamp floated over a
Update: Gov. Jared Polis signed HB 24-1090 into law on Tuesday, Feb. 20. State lawmakers want to adjust a 2023 juvenile
UPDATE: Saturday, Jan. 20, 3:20 p.m.: Reached by phone, Paul Choate, a local restaurant owner in Ridgway, said he
This week’s newsletter was produced transcontinentally, so it’s just a roundup. Hopefully it compliments
Certain records about a June 2023 cyberattack at the Colorado Department of Higher Education are subject to CORA’s
A Pagosa Springs lawyer who routinely sues school boards around the state for violations of the open meetings law is
Colorado lawmakers’ use of an anonymous private survey to prioritize bills impacting the state budget “thwarts the
The state’s highest court should reaffirm that people who sue state and local government entities are still entitled
The Colorado Department of Human Services wants the state’s highest court to review a recent appellate court opinion
Hello, and welcome to 2024 at Inside the News in Colorado. Each January, I write a year-in-review column for the
Several key rulings in 2023 showed why courts matter so much for enforcing and interpreting Colorado’s open
Colorado’s second-largest city, which is about the 40th largest in the nation, seems poised to lose its alternative
Because of a 2023 law that protects the privacy of juveniles, the Colorado Judicial Department plans to limit
For the past six months, a journalist for the Daily Yonder, a national nonprofit news outlet focused on rural
Three years ago, the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition published a “wish list” of recommendations for
Late last month, a Colorado judge made the remarkable decision to order Justin Wingerter of BusinessDen to return
In a victory for the Aurora Sentinel, the Colorado Court of Appeals reversed a district court ruling Thursday and
Update: The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press filed an amicus letter with the court in support of
On a Sunday in March of 2009, a crane company pulled up to 101 W. Colfax Ave. in downtown Denver. There, workers began
A reader emailed recently to ask if I knew of a good roundup of Colorado-based podcasts. “We’re updating our list
On October 30, 2023, a Colorado state court judge determined that two Denver city officials had improperly withheld
Grant Houston started the weekly Silver World newspaper in Lake City right out of college when he was 23. For 46 years
Are people who want books banned or reclassified library “users” whose identities are protected by Colorado law?
A judge’s decision to restrict access to records in the case of a cardiologist accused of sexually assaulting and
For the past few years, a movement has been spreading in Colorado. In multiple cities and towns, journalists have left
In a new court brief, leaders of the Colorado General Assembly defend their use during recent legislative sessions of
A coalition of news organizations has banded together to serve Spanish-language audiences in the Roaring Fork Valley.
The Colorado Children’s Code doesn’t necessarily prohibit the state Department of Human Services from publicly
A judge Monday ordered Denver to disclose city officials’ text messages about last June’s severe hailstorm at Red
The email came — notably — on Friday the 13th. In October. The spooky season. When ghouls and ghosts and goblins
Powerful new reporting by the Colorado News Collaborative (COLab) and news organization partners shines a light on gaps
Two years ago, this newsletter reported how Coloradans were, for the first time, learning what our state’s
Andrew Travers, an editor of the Aspen Times who was fired last year amid a censorship scandal, has now sued his former
A report this week from a cluster of journalism advocacy groups paints a dire picture for the future of Colorado’s
Colorado News Collaborative this week unveiled what it calls a first-of-its-kind online guide that will “help
The Colorado Sun, one of the nation’s brighter spots in digital local news sustainability, has been a few things in
Two years after launching the Broomfield Leader as a for-profit digital local news site, the Canadian-owned Village
Whether someone plunged a knife into a college student in Boulder last week might not be the most pressing news story
For the past year, Colorado has been a state-based testing ground for an international project seeking to bolster trust
Roughly 18 months after choosing Denver as the test market for an original local news experiment, the national app
“I’m not dead.” That’s the answer I’d hoped to hear — and did — from Trevor Hughes when he picked up the
An Illinois company that owned a cluster of eight newspapers in Colorado’s San Luis Valley has sold them to a young
Following what one city staffer called an “extensive review,” city leaders in Aspen this week anointed the locally
Typically, when a news organization decides to remove a piece of reporting from its website after publication, a best
Countering last week’s news of two Eastern Plains newspapers cutting back their print days, two small
Starting next week, two newspapers on the Eastern Plains will cut the number of days they publish a printed edition.
After years of trying to disinfect what it characterized as a toxic swamp of an online comments section, Colorado’s
A year from now, on July 1, 2024, inflation will likely boost the maximum hourly rate governments are allowed to charge
Media advocates in Colorado swarmed into action this week to help several local newspapers continue publishing a
A district court ruling against four Douglas County school board members last week doesn’t affect other government
The labor union representing workers at the Pueblo Chieftain ripped into the paper’s owner Gannett this week when the
A Court of Appeals opinion keeping Colorado’s database of law enforcement officers confidential “creates a gaping
This week, a city council member in Englewood who is at the center of controversy answered a phone call from a local
Concerned the measure would “act as an impediment to legitimate challenges to open meetings,” Gov. Jared Polis on
Gov. Jared Polis’ signature on Senate Bill 23-286 Tuesday will change the Colorado Open Records Act in some small but
Signing into law a bill that lets elected officials block anyone from their private social media accounts for “any
A district court judge made “egregious” errors last year in deciding that Colorado’s Sunshine Law did not require
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz is currently a journalist for the national outlet Insider but spent her career as a local
For more than a year, a sword of Damocles has been hanging over a leading local TV news station in Denver. A hedge fund
Four years ago, Colorado legalized online sports gambling. The lucrative business and gobs of money that orbit it have
This week, Colorado lawmakers stopped making laws. Until next year, anyway. For one reporter who has covered state
Despite a looming inflationary increase in fees, state lawmakers in the 2023 legislative session never addressed the
The important and impressive Voices Initiative is out with another report for Colorado — this time about Indigenous
Update: Denver District Court Judge Andrew Luxen on Thursday, June 1, denied Movimiento Poder’s motion to intervene
Promising to keep working to improve access to state-and-local government for people with disabilities, a lawmaker
Update: The Colorado Senate voted 29-5 to pass the amended version of HB 23-1259 on Tuesday, May 2. The strike-below
Legislators Friday defeated a CORA bill amendment, proposed by Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer, aimed at opening records on the
Update: The House concurred with Senate amendments to HB 23-1259 and repassed the bill on Thursday, May 4, sending it
Update: The Senate passed HB 23-1306 on a 26-9 vote on Thursday, May 4, sending the bill to the governor. State
Dylan Anderson has become the latest local journalism entrepreneur in Colorado to leave a shrinking newspaper only to
Colorado’s Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) board is a criminal justice agency, and it did not abuse its
A CORA modernization bill passed a Colorado Senate committee Thursday with lawmakers adding a provision that prohibits
ChatGPT and its artificial intelligence brethren are the latest technological advancements to rumble through local
Unlike a draft circulating at the state Capitol since mid-March, the introduced version of a bill amending the Colorado
As amended by the Colorado House last week, an open meetings bill still significantly weakens Coloradans’ ability to
This week, the social media platform Twitter added a label to NPR’s account that called the national broadcaster
Update: The Colorado House approved HB 23-1182 on third reading 63-0 on Friday, Apr. 14. There will be no
