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Gannett buyouts hit Colorado newspapers bookending the Front Range Your weekly...

In the 1997 film Men in Black, there's a scene where Tommy Lee Jones wants to prevent some local officials from remembering a particularly newsworthy...

A wicked week for the local news business, and Colorado as...

This week, a Grim Reaper was stalking the newsrooms of America's largest local newspapers, dragging a scythe along the carpeted floors, stopping briefly by...

Reporter: Vail Daily’s series on water quality in a resort town...

Freelance reporter David O. Williams is on a tear. In an ongoing series of stories he published this month in Vail Daily, the reporter exposed some harsh realities...

Denver Post’s hedge-fund owner lost a ‘hostile takeover bid’ of the...

The hedge fund that controls Media News Group, née Digital First Media — also known as The Nothing, and for gutting newsrooms like The...

Reporter let go: ‘I’ll be rooting for The Greeley Tribune’  Your weekly...

Recent downsizing is re-shaping another northern Colorado newspaper, this time the Swift Communications-owned broadsheet in Greeley. The newsroom is down a handful of people, from around 13...

Local politicians rally around a new print paper in the Springs,...

Journalists are the "enemy of the people." The "failing New York Times." Fake news, Yadda, yadda. We've heard it all from President Donald Trump and his dedicated fans....

Gannett’s nationwide layoffs lash the Coloradoan newspaper in Fort Collins Your...

Coast to coast, a wave of layoffs surged through newsrooms of America's largest newspaper chain — and I'm told three full-time staff positions at the Coloradoan in Fort Collins were...

Afternoon News Nuggets: 15 July 2009

Dug up fresh, daily. BOOT CAMP: The National Republican Congressional Committee this week is flogging GOP state Rep. Cory Gardner's fundraising efforts, clearly pinning hopes...

Journalism chronicles: Gannett down; Wikipedia video up

As rumors swirl that giant newspaper publisher Gannett may layoff thousands next week, Wikipedia prepares to add video. How are the two related? Wikipedia current-event-entry news is perhaps the most immediate relative in the journalism family to the amazing Twitter coverage of the Iranian election protests, that's how.