Financially stronger newsrooms can produce better news. COLab helps strengthen news outlets through innovation. Below we share some of the ways that happens.
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I’m delighted to share some extraordinary news: Governor Jared Polis and the other living Colorado governors have selected Laura Frank, COLab’s founding executive director, to receive the Governor’s Citizenship Medal
During the February Wolzien Lecture at the University of Denver, Laura Frank floated an idea — that connecting students, mentors and local newsrooms could help reimagine how local news works.
When we launched COLab in the early, dark days of the pandemic more than five years ago, we did so with a guiding light in our first executive director, Laura
Imagine a newsroom where the editor is also the publisher, sometimes the delivery driver, and even—on occasion—the janitor. That’s the reality for many local journalists today, like Dave Perry of
The Colorado News Collaborative (COLab) is a nonprofit seeking to stop the spread of news deserts in our state. We serve as a local media resource hub and ideas lab
Once again, Colorado is staking out new ground in the battle to save local news, this time with a first-in-the-nation effort to keep newspapers locally owned and thriving. For about
Dear reader, As of today, the Colorado News Collaborative is a year old. And what a year. What we imagined compared to what has come to pass is beyond what
Dear reader, Has this happened to you? I’ve now lost track of the number of times I’ve uttered “What an unbelievable year!” or some variation of that. But today, I’m
Dear fellow Coloradan, On this morning of the 2020 election, I’m moved to write you a letter about a conversation I had last night with my teenage son. Yesterday, Susan
Dear reader, We’re writing to introduce you to our new boss, the Colorado News Collaborative’s (COLab) Executive Director Laura Frank. Laura is a Denver native and award-winning journalist who spent
“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