Better News for all Coloradans

Strengthening local journalism through the power of collaboration

Hugh Carey, The Colorado Sun

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Hart Van Denburg, CPR News

How COLab is Changing the Colorado News Landscape

How you can get involved with COLab

For Journalists

Strengthen your reporting & community

For Community

Strengthen journalism & democracy

Media. Academia. Talent. Collaborating to Help.

MATCH Lab pairs newsrooms facing urgent challenges (Media) with faculty-led student teams (Academia) and SCORE-certified business mentors (Talent). Together, they design and deliver practical, hands-on, tailored solutions. Unlike one-size-fits-all training, MATCH Lab bridges gaps in capacity, supports local newsrooms where they need it most, and amplifies existing efforts already underway in Colorado’s journalism ecosystem.

Due Process and Masked Men: Coloradans Conflicted Over Promised Immigration Crackdowns and the Realities of How They Are Carried Out

Colorado Public Radio, Colorado News Collaborative

Over the last several months, Nicholas Pierce’s work as an asylum, refugee and deportation defense lawyer on the Front Range has meant playing catch-up. The immigration policies and orders that...

The Civic Information Project

Public information is complicated. Ballots are long. Campaign messaging is loud. And too often, people are left sorting through information that feels overwhelming, incomplete or disconnected from their real concerns. The Colorado News Collaborative (COLab) helps local newsrooms across Colorado work together to provide clear, nonpartisan information on elections and everyday life that is easier to find, easier to understand and rooted in what communities actually care about. By collaborating rather than competing, Colorado news outlets are...

A Proud Moment for Colorado News

I’m delighted to share some extraordinary news: Governor Jared Polis and the other living Colorado governors have selected Laura Frank, COLab’s founding executive director, to receive the Governor’s Citizenship Medal...