From Our Partners: Tapping Colorado Communities to Build Better Local News
News Voices: Colorado - September3, 2020
By Diamond Hardiman, News Voices: Colorado
If you pay attention to the news in Colorado, then yo…
News Voices: Colorado
How do we transform local news so that it’s more inclusive of underrepresented communities and better serves all communities?
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About the Project
As Colorado wrestles with issues surrounding a growing and diversifying population, rising costs of living, and economic inequality, not all residents see themselves reflected in or served by local media. COLab, Colorado Media Project, and Free Press are partnering on a new initiative that works alongside communities underserved by local media to help strengthen and reimagine local news.
The Work
Watch — The Time is Right Now: A Community Conversation with Black Voices
COLab - September 21, 2021
On Sept. 21, Coloradans joined in for a two-hour panel discussion and community conversation centered on the newly-released report, ‘The time is right now:’ A call to action from Black...
Watch — Latinx Voices: The Past as Prologue
COLab - April 9, 2021
The story of the relationship between local journalism and Colorado’s Latinx community is complicated, contentious and ever-changing. It is a story that includes a media history of generalization, demonization and of...
How We're Making a Difference
Reflections
Black Voices Will Forge the Future of Journalism
Tashan Montgomery - September 20, 2021
By Tashan Mongomery • Diamond Hardiman
White supremacy works by alienating Black people from one another, which prevents us from connecting, sharing information and organizing. The media’s silencing of Black voices emboldens this alienation and makes...
An Invitation: Black Voices Calling for Change
Tina Griego - September 16, 2021
By Tina Griego
Dear reader, Our slogan here at COLab is “Better News for All Coloradans.” We talked a lot about what we mean by “better” before adopting the phrase more than a...
‘The Time is Right Now:’ A Call to Action from Black Coloradans for Anti-Racist and Just Local News
COLab - September 16, 2021
In early 2021, News Voices: Colorado — a collaboration among the Colorado News Collaborative (COLab), Colorado Media Project and Free Press — convened the Black Voices Working Group. The group,...
Connecting More Dots
Tina Griego - August 30, 2021
By Tina Griego
Dear reader, About a week ago, not quite a dozen editors and reporters hopped on a call to talk about their COVID coverage, specifically, their coverage of Coloradans who have yet...
The Latinx Community v. Local News: We’ve Been Here Before
Tina Griego - April 7, 2021
Dear reader, When she was a child growing up in a 1940s’ Greeley that still posted “No dogs or Mexicans” signs, Polly Baca remembers that the local paper had a habit...
Lineages of Harm, Futures of Repair
News Voices: Colorado - February 8, 2021
By Diamond Hardiman, News Voices: Colorado Across the country, outlets like The Los Angeles Times and The Kansas City Star have published apologies for how their coverage has upheld and...
Working Through Uncertainty
Laura Frank - November 13, 2020
Dear reader, Yesterday, Susan Greene was hard at work — helping a trio of our partner newspaper editors prep for a project with the Colorado News Collaborative. She helped lead a...
Finding Connection
Tina Griego - October 26, 2020
Dear reader, We at COLab think a lot — one could say “obsessively” — about readers, listeners and viewers of local news. We think about people we know and whom...
The Hunger for News Among Colorado’s Immigrant and Refugee Communities
Tina Griego - September 8, 2020
Dear reader, Before the pandemic and all that has spiraled from it — the quarantines, the distancing, the business closures, the lost work and childcare, the how-do-I-pay-the-bills-and-feed-the-kids panic — Diana...
No Local News Is Bad News
Tina Griego - August 3, 2020
“Tell me a bit about the broader consequences that we found happen to a community when they lose their sources of local news.” “Well, there’s a lot of things that...
News Voices: Colorado
The News Voices Colorado project seeks to transform local news so that it’s more inclusive of underrepresented communities, better supports civic engagement for all community members, and is relevant and sustainable in a digital world.
Project Goals
More local community leaders and individuals across Colorado invested in co-creating, contributing to, and sustaining a more inclusive future for trustworthy local news that better meets their needs and shared vision.
More allies contributing to a robust, inclusive, and trustworthy local news ecosystem.
Local journalists, media innovators, and allies across Colorado invested in actively listening to community members to better serve and engage local communities.
Engaging underrepresented communities and empowering them as equal participants with COLab journalists and media innovators from those communities.
Related Opportunities
September 24, 2021
▪︎ Friday, Sept. 24 ▪︎ Tune into COLab’s Facebook page and Twitter on Friday, Sept. 24, to learn how...
September 23, 2021
▪︎ Thursday, Sept. 23 at 11:00 a.m. ▪︎ On Thursday, Sept. 23 at 11:00 a.m.,...
September 22, 2021
▪︎ Wednesday, Sept. 22 at 12:30 p.m. ▪︎ Free Press, a nonpartisan organization fighting “to give...
September 21, 2021
▪︎ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 5:30-7:30 P.M. ▪︎ During the past year, Black residents...
April 9, 2021
Join Colorado Media Project, Colorado News Collaborative (COLab) and News Voices: Colorado on April 9 at...
March 10, 2021
Part three of the Maynard Institute’s Belonging in the News series is coming up on Wednesday,...
March 5, 2021
On March 5, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. MT, join a panel of doctors and misinformation...
February 19, 2021
A virtual talk, panel, and audience Q&A with Nikole Hannah-Jones, presented by the University of...
This project was made possible through unprecedented collaboration between dozens of newsrooms and journalists across the state, who are active partners in the Colorado News Collaborative, or COLab.
To support the statewide effort, donate to the Colorado News Collaborative.