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When Colorado journalists try to pry info out of governments, ‘cost...

Journalists in Colorado so appreciate the Colorado Open Records Act that at least one reporter who worked here chose Cora as his daughter's middle...

Boulder Beat’s court fight spotlights local sites and newsletters run by...

As legacy newspapers fade in cities across the country with many of them cutting their print days, shedding staff, and shrinking their circulation areas, some former...

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

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...

MEDIA: A new site covering politics and policy, Colorado Newsline, staffs...

With a slogan "Start with the truth" and a four-person journalist team, a new nonprofit newsroom called Colorado Newsline plans to begin covering politics and policy at the...

Denver Post yanks back its 2014 endorsement of Cory Gardner: ‘We see...

In an eye-opening move, the Denver Post on Thursday reversed its 2014 endorsement of U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner after the Republican senator from Yuma stuck with...

Media: Denver police want to block radio chatter from the public— but not selected news...

Last month, I highlighted a piece by my colleague Jonathan Peters, a lawyer and Columbia Journalism Review's press freedom correspondent, about dozens of police agencies in Colorado encrypting their radio...

Colorado’s Park County ‘filed a legal complaint’ against Evergreen Newspapers and two...

A board of commissioners in Park County, acting "by and through" the county coroner, "filed a legal complaint against the Canyon Courier's umbrella organization Evergreen...

Lawmakers — again — consider subjecting Colorado’s judicial branch to open...

For the third consecutive year, a committee of lawmakers discussed whether the administrative records of the state’s judicial branch should be subject to the...

Meet the ‘world’s only full-time hemp reporter’— right here in Colorado

News readers in Colorado might recognize the name Kristen Wyatt, who wrote for The Associated Press for 17 years— her last seven as Colorado's statehouse reporter. But...

Should judges in Colorado be able to seal criminal court records...

In a terse letter, a committee of the Colorado Supreme Court has rejected CFOIC’s call for a uniform standard for sealing court files in...