A year ago, this newsletter reported how Coloradans were, for the first time, learning what our state’s newsrooms were paying for jobs in journalism. (That published post remains this newsletter’s fourth most-read
For the past several months, I’ve been working on a project with students at Colorado College and others in a series of classes called “The Future and Sustainability of Local
Over roughly the last decade, the ranks of professional journalists in Colorado have shrunk by nearly half and one in five community newspapers has closed. The consequences of these spreading
Steven Woodrow, a 42-year-old Democrat and lawyer who represents Denver in the Colorado House of Representatives, faced swift backlash from some in the state’s press corps this week following a
This is a special expanded edition of the “Inside the News in Colorado” newsletter. Occasionally, I’ll try to round up news from local media scenes outside Colorado to offer a
After nearly 75 years, KLMR, a local radio station serving the area around Lamar on Colorado’s Eastern Plains, has hung up its call letters and surrendered its license to the
Three’s a trend, folks. A nonprofit newspaper revolution has hit Colorado. This week, the alternative weekly in Colorado Springs, The Indy, a for-profit enterprise for three decades, announced a transformational
Vince Bzdek, editor of The Colorado Springs and Denver Gazette, authored an eyebrow-raising column this week that accused a handful of his print, digital, and radio competitors of bias while
Columbia Journalism Review this week hosted a major panel discussion called “The Objectivity Wars” that included journalists Wesley Lowery and Lewis Raven Wallace, among others. Something of a local version
Next week’s journalism-conference world welcomes a doubleheader from two powerhouse organizations in the state. The Colorado Press Association and the Colorado Media Project each are hosting overlapping conferences at the
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