A company behind an effort to reinvent local TV news nationwide has launched a pilot in Colorado. Here’s how I wrote about The Local for Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab in May when...

Speaking into a microphone with one leg propped on a hay bale at the Iowa State Fair in 2011, Mitt Romney, a Republican candidate for president against Barack Obama, was...

This week, the state of Colorado’s version of the FBI set off an explosion of headlines when the agency said it would review the 2005 death of journalist and author...

This week, the controversial anonymous social media account DoBetterDNVR abruptly went dark with no explanation. The account, which had become a household name for posts that were “often inflammatory” and “sometimes false,...

This week’s newsletter is in roundup form. Now, onto the latest… 🗞️ 🪓 Five weekly newspapers in Colorado’s sprawling San Luis Valley are no longer separately publishing. Instead, Valley Publishing Inc. has combined them into one weekly...

This week’s newsletter is in roundup form. Now, onto the latest… 📡 🪓 KUNC announced this week it was forced to lay off 10 people in what the northern Colorado public radio station called an “organizational restructuring in...

Another newspaper on Colorado’s rural Eastern Plains has announced plans to fold up shop. “The Leader is closing its doors by the end of the year,” read a statement from...

The trailer for a new documentary called “Truth Be Told,” about how Coloradans practice local journalism, is out this week. The film is part of the “Free Press, Free Country”...

A multi-media campaign is rolling out across Colorado aimed at educating viewers about the importance of a free and independent press. Called “Free Press, Free Country,” the project includes a...

Colorado’s Democratic attorney general, Phil Weiser, who is running for governor, said he is open to creative public policy ideas that might help sustain local journalism. The candidate’s comments came...

Should a county government pay upwards of $350,000 to a local newspaper publisher to help the county spread “good news?” That’s a question commissioners in conservative Douglas County just south...

One of the great small-town newspaper dramas of the past decade in Colorado appears to have come to a close. At least for now. “This will be our last publication,”...

This week, Republicans in Congress wiped out federal financial support for NPR and PBS. The impacts are now trickling down to Colorado. The state’s many public media broadcast stations had...

The free press is under fire. That was the theme of a public discussion in Colorado Springs about the ways in which the local journalism industry operates during a time...

This week, as the nation’s annual conference for alternative weekly newspapers was convening in Madison, Wisconsin, one of its Colorado members was imploding. Shay Castle, who had been editor of Boulder...

Last month, three Colorado radio stations made news when they joined a lawsuit with NPR against Republican President Donald Trump over his executive order that aims to cut funding for...

A digital media startup is aiming to launch a local news endeavor in the picturesque Western Slope Colorado mountain town of Telluride. Those behind it indicate they also plan to lean heavily...

Following the June 1 firebombing of demonstrators in Boulder who were rallying for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza, members of the Jewish community complained about the conduct of...

➡️ This week, Colorado became the center of national news attention when police and witnesses said a man shouting the words “Palestine” and “free” firebombed a crowd in Boulder who...

Three Colorado radio stations have become the tip of the spear for local public media in a court fight against President Donald Trump. Colorado Public Radio, Aspen Public Radio, and...

A Colorado journalism support organization in Southern Colorado is closing. “In recent years, we’ve seen a decline in participation as the media landscape in Pueblo has shifted,” wrote Southern Colorado...

This week, the National Trust for Local News, which ran the string of more than two dozen Colorado Community Media newspapers in the Denver area, dropped a bombshell. The nonprofit,...

Colorado is often a test tube for local media experiments. The view is that if something can succeed here it might succeed elsewhere. The state has once again found itself...

One of the biggest stories in Colorado this week was about a massive late-night federal raid in Colorado Springs that allegedly included 300 members of law enforcement. On April 27, the U.S....

For staff at the Independent bi-weekly newspaper in Colorado Springs, Easter Monday was decidedly not a day for contemplating any kind of resurrection. “The entire staff was laid off today, including me,”...

The Denver Post’s policy on using artificial intelligence fits on half of a printed page. The text contains five bullet points. Here it is in its entirety: Denver Post Editor...

Next month, Denver will play host to the annual Collaborative Journalism Summit organized by the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University. Each year, the summit moves from city...

With a mission to include more female voices in local media, Aspen Public Radio is launching what it calls the station’s first Women’s Desk. The initiative “will seek to understand...

The Gazette newspaper in Colorado Springs softened its coverage after legal threats involving a local housing development, according to a new book published this month. The revelations appear about a...

Following Republican President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, a socialist newspaper on Colorado’s conservative Western Slope is on the rise. “We’re up 10 percent new subscribers every month...

The spinning blade of budget cuts that have chopped up Colorado’s newspapers over the years are now coming for commercial TV news stations. This week, E.W. Scripps, the large TV...

Lawmakers in Colorado this year are proposing new laws that would impact how transparent state government could be. The extent to which these laws, if passed, would draw more public...

A nonprofit news organization that runs a fleet of two dozen newspapers in the Denver suburbs is planning to shut down two of them. “Because of market challenges and changes...

A Denver TV station made national news this week for its coverage of local ICE raids under the new Trump administration. Across the country, local news organizations have come under...

Public broadcasters in Colorado are on alert. Last week, Brendan Carr, Trump’s choice to lead the Federal Communications Commission, ordered an investigation into NPR and PBS. Any ramifications could trickle down to...

A national network of seemingly local AI-generated newsletters that came under scrutiny from a national media outlet includes at least two in Colorado. Andrew Deck, who covers generative AI for...

Court rulings in Denver and El Paso County this month rejected arguments from public utilities that water usage records for large data processing centers are confidential under the Colorado Open...

An online clearinghouse of pre-introduced legislative proposals — an idea that died on the General Assembly’s calendar in 2024 — gained new life Monday when a Colorado House committee unanimously...

A state senator is trying again to curb what she has referred to as the “abuse” of the Colorado Open Records Act by certain records requesters. Similar to a bill...

Across the country, local TV meteorologists this week feared they could lose their jobs if a large broadcaster outsources its local weather forecasting to a “hub” based in Atlanta. “The...

he Colorado Judicial Department cannot be sued for delaying its response to a request for administrative records if the records eventually are provided to the requester, the Court of Appeals...

CFOIC asked the state’s highest court to affirm that when a public body fails to properly announce the “particular matter” to be discussed in an executive session, the recording of...

Colorado was something of a pioneer in 2022. That’s when journalists, students, academics, and others embarked on a collaborative effort to find out where people are getting their local news and information...

Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Monica Márquez highlighted “coordinated attacks” on Colorado’s virtual courtrooms during her State of the Judiciary remarks Friday, stressing the need to upgrade the system that...

A year to the month after landing his first job out of college, Ja’Ronn Alex says he is on paid leave from his reporting position at a Western Slope TV...

Lakewood’s appeal of a judge’s order to disclose blurred body-worn camera footage of police shooting and killing a 17-year-old robbery suspect in 2023 “is a transparent attempt to turn back...

Hello, and welcome to 2025 at Inside the News in Colorado. Each January, I write a year-in-review column for the Colorado Sun, rounding up reporting from this newsletter by month across...

Staff at the alternative weekly newspaper in Boulder are looking to buy the publication and convert it to an employee-owned newsroom. Boulder Weekly is currently running a fundraising campaign to...

Citizens, media representatives and nonprofit organizations asked legislative leaders Monday to repeal Colorado Open Meetings Law changes affecting the legislature that were adopted earlier this year. And some groups said...

A man’s reported physical attack on a non-white Grand Junction TV journalist, partially caught on camera, landed a 39-year-old taxi driver in jail over the holidays. The incident came with...