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The Colorado Independent is a nonprofit news outlet that offers tax-deductible opportunities for businesses and organizations to raise their profiles by underwriting our news coverage or events.

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Awards and Honors

Our team at The Colorado Independent has been recognized for some of Colorado’s finest journalism. Here are some awards we’ve won in the past two years.

2018

The Society of Professional Journalists’ First Amendment Award

In recognition of The Independent’s fight for government transparency and access to public records

1st Place, Society of Professional Journalists: Environmental Enterprise Reporting, for “Fractured,” a series about the tensions between Colorado residents and oil and gas development

1st Place, Society of Professional Journalists: Political Enterprise reporting, “The Great Colorado Voter Revolt of 2017”

1st Place, Society of Professional Journalists: Public Service, watchdogging Denver’s jails

1st Place, Society of Professional Journalists: Personal Columns Writing, body of Tina Griego’s columns

1st Place, Society of Professional Journalists: News Column Writing, body of Susan Greene’s columns

2017

ACLU of Colorado’s Larry Tajiri Media Award in recognition of The Independent’s cover of civil rights in Colorado

1st Place, Society of Professional Journalists: Investigative and Enterprise Reporting, for a series of stories about the Clarence Moses-EL wrongful conviction case

2nd Place, Society of Professional Journalists: Enterprise Reporting on the Environment, “The Invisible Plume”

2nd Place, Society of Professional Journalists: Political Enterprise Reporting, “Colorado is in Americans for Prosperity’s ‘Persuasian Universe’”

2nd Place, Society of Professional Journalists: Column Writing, “The Sad Death of the Happiest Man in Denver”