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Vail newspaper to launch next week

By | 08.26.11 | 9:19 am

Here’s a sentence you don’t see much these days: A new newspaper will hit the streets Thursday. Erin Chavez, former Associate Publisher of the Vail Mountaineer, which closed in June along with the Denver Daily News, will launch a weekly called “Sneak Peak Vail.”

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Media critic says Tipton, Perlmutter are on solid ground ethically

By | 07.02.11 | 5:18 am

Media critic Jason Salzman this week calls out The Denver Post for casting aspersions on Congressmen Ed Perlmutter and Scott Tipton for having investments in businesses or industries that might be affected by committees the two congressmen sit on.

VIDEO: Romney in CO: MA health plan is good; Obamacare is bad

By | 06.21.11 | 3:23 pm

With Mitt Romney having come and gone (and collected a whole bunch of endorsements), Coloradans are left to wonder what it all meant.

McInnis exonerated? Not so fast, says media blogger

By | 05.31.11 | 2:31 pm

Former U.S. Rep. and gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis will not lose his law license as a result of the plagiarism that probably cost him last year’s GOP nomination for Colorado governor. While McInnis has been crowing about this, media critic Jason Salzman writes in his Big Media blog today that McInnis is still guilty of plagiarism and is still guilty of misrepresenting his work to the Hasan Foundation, which paid him $300,000 for a series of original water articles.

Green Party to Tea Party: So what about military spending?

By | 11.04.10 | 1:32 pm

In the nailbiter Colorado U.S. Senate race watched by the nation this week, Green Party candidate Bob Kinsey came in third place, after Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet and Republican Ken Buck. Kinsey pulled down 2.1 percent of the vote,…

Saccone talks Colorado journalism with Salzman: ‘The show goes on’

By | 06.24.10 | 3:05 pm

Colorado Independent contributor Jason Salzman has been tracking down veteran Colorado journalists who have exited the field, at least temporarily, to talk about local journalism in the era of the Great Transition. This week he exchanged emails with…

McInnis camp tries and fails to put press dodge on event organizers

By | 06.23.10 | 1:30 pm

Republican gubernatorial candidate McInnis didn’t show up for a scheduled news conference after his speech before the Denver Petroleum Club yesterday.

The Colorado Independent reported that McInnis spokesperson Sean Duffy told journalists, who were waiting for McInnis after his…

Journalist Bill Menezes on opportunities seized and squandered in Colorado’s shifting news landscape

By | 06.09.10 | 4:47 pm

Colorado Independent contributor Jason Salzman has been hunting down veteran Denver journalists no longer reporting regularly to talk about Colorado journalism in the era of the Great Transition. This week he talked to Bill Menezes, a longtime AP…

Denver Post fact-checks McInnis radio interview on abortion

By | 05.19.10 | 4:36 pm

The Denver Post Wednesday afternoon took issue with some of the things GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis told social conservative radio host Jim Pfaff Monday about his congressional record on abortion and the Post’s reporting on that record. …

Westword’s Roberts on Colorado’s new-media landscape

By | 05.14.10 | 11:54 am

Colorado Independent contributor, BigMedia blog author and former Rocky Mountain News media critic Jason Salzman has been interviewing journalists as the media landscape continues to shift. This week he interviewed Westword’s Michael Roberts, a Denver and Colorado media…