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Colorado Springs Gazette owner launches ‘Denver Gazette’ newspaper in the Post’s backyard Your weekly...

What's half a newspaper war? A newspaper tussle? Whatever it is, Denver is poised for one. Six years after floating an idea that Clarity Media might relaunch The Rocky Mountain...
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Lawsuit: Boulder council member’s private emails about proposed ballot initiative are public records

Boulder Beat has asked a judge to decide whether a Boulder City Council member’s personal email exchanges with two nonprofits are public records subject...
Laura Frank, left, helps a young journalist analyze data on immigration.

Meet our new boss: Introducing Laura Frank

Dear readers, 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...

MEDIA: On climate change and Colorado wildfire coverage Your weekly roundup of Colorado local...

Colorado is on fire again. Last week, four major blazes scorched forests with flames leaping tree to tree during historic drought conditions as the planet warms. Main...
Relatively small average donations are becoming commonplace as candidates expand beyond big donors to seek smaller, often monthly, donations from previously untapped individuals.

President Donald Trump is raising big money in Colorado, far outpacing Democrat Joe Biden...

President Donald Trump is collecting the bulk of campaign donations from Colorado, but former Vice President Joe Biden began to close the gap after...

What’s the future for Pulp magazine in Pueblo? Your weekly roundup of Colorado local...

Pulp newsmagazine, as we know it, could be no more. Publisher John Rodriguez, who runs the monthly print magazine that transitioned to digital-only during the pandemic, has taken a...
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Greene: On longing What's moving you in this time of isolation and unrest?

Dear reader, Tina and I have spent much of the last month knee-deep in documents for a difficult investigative project we’re still piecing together. So...

Why these Colorado journalists wear masks, and other local media news Your weekly roundup...

To mask or not to mask. For some Coloradans in the news business, that's not even a question. From a recent news-behind-the-news item produced by Denver...

Griego: No local news is bad news

“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...

Colorado makes a cameo in new book ‘Ghosting the News’ about the U.S. local...

It takes fewer than five pages for Colorado to make its first cameo in a new book called Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis...