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Working through uncertainty We are all in this together

Dear readers, Yesterday, Susan Greene was hard at work — helping a trio of our partner newspaper editors prep for a project with the Colorado News...
COLab and its partners are disarming disinformation this election, including setting up a text hotline for people to share their election experiences (303-871-1491).

An antidote to polarization and partisanship

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...

The pits in our stomachs

Dear reader, Words generally come easily for me. But I have been struggling for seven months to name how it feels to live through this...

Finding Connection

Dear reader,  We at COLab think a lot — one could say “obsessively” — about readers, listeners and viewers of local news. We think about...
Looking through a broken window to the lobby of the old Denver Post building the morning after the May 29, 2020 racial justice protest in downtown Denver.

Your thoughts on truth-telling and bias "Be the beacon that lets us see through...

Dear reader, Wow. We asked for your thoughts last week on the test the Trump administration has posed to journalists seeking to be “objective” while...

The case for not holding our tongues

Dear reader, From our angst department, I’m writing to fill you in about an ethical question I and journalists across the country are wrestling with...

There aren’t enough Burts to go around Thank you and good luck to a...

Dear reader, I’m writing today to tell you about one of the most decent, generous, hardworking Colorado reporters you probably have never met — Burt...

The hunger for news among Colorado’s immigrant and refugee communities In the age of...

Dear reader, Before the pandemic and all that has spiraled from it — the quarantines, the distancing, the business closures, the lost work and childcare,...
Colorado residents shared their visions for local news at an event Free Press and the Colorado Media Project hosted in 2019.

From Our Partners: Tapping Colorado communities to build better local news There is a...

If you pay attention to the news in Colorado, then you already know: There isn’t as much of it as there used to be. Like...

Stonewalled: Kiowa County sheriffs won’t explain why they killed Zach Gifford

Dear reader, Brandon, population 21, lies three hours southeast of Denver. It's a speck of a place amid Colorado's Southeastern Plains as they reach...