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Better News for all Coloradans

Better News for all Coloradans

What We Do

Every Coloradan deserves local news. COLab, the Colorado News Collaborative, unites journalists from more than 100 news outlets with allies and supporters to strengthen trustworthy, public-interest news statewide. Together, we can increase the scope,  quantity and quality of civic news — the kind that holds power to account and helps Coloradans participate in healthy communities and a responsive democracy.

Collaborative work

Mar 11, 2024

Colorado Leads On Medical Debt Protections, Even As Health Care Costs Remain ‘Out of Control’

Lindsey Vance carried medical debt for nearly half her life.  The 41-year-old Denver resident said her debt began stacking up when she was around 19, when she stopped being covered under her parents’ health insurance and turned to the...
Mar 8, 2024

Inside the News: Layoffs lash Colorado Public Radio, Slicing Into Podcasts and Production

This year has already been brutal for the local media business with layoffs lashing newsrooms coast to coast at outlets large and small. Colorado has not been immune. This week, Colorado Public Radio laid off 15 employees, making up...
Mar 1, 2024

Inside the News: Colorado Media Odds & Ends — Medicated Roundup Edition

💊 This week’s newsletter was produced in recovery mode, sidelined by an unfun medical issue — so it’s just a roundup. 🍽 Local Colorado Springs independent Substack journalist Matthew Schniper, who covers the city’s culinary scene for his Side Dish newsletter, wrote this week about...
Feb 28, 2024

UCHealth Demanda a Miles De Pacientes Cada Año. Pero No Encontrarás Su Nombre En Los Documentos

AURORA — El anillo brillaba: oro blanco de 18 quilates, de doble banda, con un diamante de 1.5 quilates en el centro.  Era el anillo que el difunto esposo de Cathy Woods-Sullivan le había dado el día de su...
Feb 26, 2024

An Interview With The Colorado Sun’s John Ingold on Recent Reporting About UCHealth Suing Patients Over Unpaid Medical Bills

An investigation by 9News and The Colorado Sun, in partnership with the Colorado News Collaborative and KFF Health News, shows how UCHealth filed more than 15 thousand lawsuits against patients from 2019 through 2023. John Ingold, a healthcare reporter at The Colorado Sun, was...

COLab Founding Partners

COLab Founding Partners

How We're Making a Difference

Join the Amplify Colorado Movement

Something pretty remarkable happened last Thursday in Denver on the third floor of the Buell Public Media Center, COLab’s home base.  As about 100 people gathered, a lively (and thirsty and hungry) crowd of journalists and community members, we launched the first-ever online statewide source guide to Coloradans from diverse

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For Journalists

Whether you are working in a Colorado newsroom or you are a freelance journalist in the state, you’re invited to join COLab. Connect with other journalists across Colorado and gain access to resources, training and more. Make your journalism and your community stronger.

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COLab partners work together to tell stories that the newsrooms couldn’t do alone. Together, we tell stories that would otherwise go untold. And those stories make a difference.