What News Collaboration Looks – and Smells – Like
Susan Greene - June 29, 2020
Dear reader, It had been too long since I smelled a newspaper. By that, I don’t mean the thing tossed on our front stoops each morning. I mean the building...
Triggered
How One of Colorado’s Smallest Protests Became Its Most Violent
- James Marshall protesting in Alamosa, Colorado on June 4, 2020 minutes before he shot driver Danny Pruitt. (Photo by Megan Colwell/Valley Courier)
About the Project
“Triggered” is about a June 4 protest during which a man drove his pickup into a crowd of protesters and one of them shot him in the head.
COLab’s Susan Greene and Alamosa Valley Courier’s longtime Editor, Keith Cerney, collaborated for two weeks to bring this story to light.
“Their June 4 run-in lasted five seconds, less than an average yawn. That’s all it took for one of Colorado’s sleepy protests to become its most violent,” the story reads.
The Work
Triggered: How One of Colorado’s Smallest Protests Became Its Most Violent
COLab - June 27, 2020
By Susan Greene, Colorado News Collaborative • Keith Cerney, Alamosa Valley Courier
ALAMOSA — The protesters, about a dozen in all, gathered on June 4 in the intersection of State Avenue and Main Street. Like protesters across the country in the aftermath of...
Reflections
Triggered
Collaborative Partners
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.
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