A judge Monday ordered Denver to disclose city officials’ text messages about last June’s severe hailstorm at Red Rocks Amphitheater, ruling the communications were improperly withheld from 9NEWS reporter Steve…
The email came — notably — on Friday the 13th. In October. The spooky season. When ghouls and ghosts and goblins haunt the dusky twilight of our western autumn. “Crisis…
Powerful new reporting by the Colorado News Collaborative (COLab) and news organization partners shines a light on gaps and weaknesses in Colorado’s recent legislative efforts to make law enforcement more…
Two years ago, this newsletter reported how Coloradans were, for the first time, learning what our state’s newsrooms were paying for jobs in journalism. The new transparency came as the result of…
Andrew Travers, an editor of the Aspen Times who was fired last year amid a censorship scandal, has now sued his former newspaper and its parent company. Allegations in a…
A report this week from a cluster of journalism advocacy groups paints a dire picture for the future of Colorado’s news printing industry, and offers some potential solutions. “For a…
Colorado News Collaborative this week unveiled what it calls a first-of-its-kind online guide that will “help newsrooms find diverse sources” while also helping community members connect with local reporters. “We…
The Colorado Sun, one of the nation’s brighter spots in digital local news sustainability, has been a few things in its five years since launching. First, it was an LLC…
Two years after launching the Broomfield Leader as a for-profit digital local news site, the Canadian-owned Village Media has shut it down. The move once again underscores the difficulty of…
Whether someone plunged a knife into a college student in Boulder last week might not be the most pressing news story in Colorado. But how coverage of it played out…
For the past year, Colorado has been a state-based testing ground for an international project seeking to bolster trust in local news. The Journalism Trust Initiative, a project of Reporters Without…
Roughly 18 months after choosing Denver as the test market for an original local news experiment, the national app NewsBreak plans to pull the plug. “While disappointed with this decision,…
“I’m not dead.” That’s the answer I’d hoped to hear — and did — from Trevor Hughes when he picked up the phone around midday Monday. Hughes is a senior…
An Illinois company that owned a cluster of eight newspapers in Colorado’s San Luis Valley has sold them to a young Wyoming publisher who has been snapping up community newspapers…
Following what one city staffer called an “extensive review,” city leaders in Aspen this week anointed the locally owned Aspen Daily News as the city’s “newspaper of record” over the…
Typically, when a news organization decides to remove a piece of reporting from its website after publication, a best practice is to acknowledge it publicly and explain what happened. Sure,…
Countering last week’s news of two Eastern Plains newspapers cutting back their print days, two small hyperlocal publications in southern Colorado say they are expanding their offerings. The Florence Reporter, which launched last…
Starting next week, two newspapers on the Eastern Plains will cut the number of days they publish a printed edition. “The decision to eliminate the Monday and Tuesday print editions,…
After years of trying to disinfect what it characterized as a toxic swamp of an online comments section, Colorado’s flagship newspaper decided to simply drain the damn thing. Comments on…
A year from now, on July 1, 2024, inflation will likely boost the maximum hourly rate governments are allowed to charge for processing Colorado Open Records Act requests from $33.58…
Media advocates in Colorado swarmed into action this week to help several local newspapers continue publishing a physical edition after a large out-of-state company announced it would shut down the…
A district court ruling against four Douglas County school board members last week doesn’t affect other government boards, councils and commissions, but it could persuade judges who examine similar cases…
The labor union representing workers at the Pueblo Chieftain ripped into the paper’s owner Gannett this week when the nation’s largest newspaper chain announced a decision to shutter its printing…
A Court of Appeals opinion keeping Colorado’s database of law enforcement officers confidential “creates a gaping hole” in the Colorado Open Records Act and broadens the scope of the criminal…
This week, a city council member in Englewood who is at the center of controversy answered a phone call from a local reporter and responded to a series of questions.…
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