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Dec 31, 2025
COLab highlights events of interest to local journalists and to our fellow Coloradans. What are we missing? We want to hear from you. To suggest
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Dec 31, 2025
COLab highlights events of interest to local journalists and to our fellow Coloradans. What are we missing? We want to hear from you. To suggest
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Dec 31, 2025
OLab highlights trainings and workshops of interest to local journalists. What are we missing? We want to hear from you. To suggest an upcoming training
Mini-Bootcamp Online: R for Data Analysis
R is a free, open-source and powerful programming language for cleaning, analyzing and visualizing data, as well as statistical analysis. This bootcamp being offered September 18-21 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., (CT) will cover all those skills, starting with the building blocks of importing and performing basic analysis on data. This bootcamp is for …
2023 Annual Colorado Press Association Convention
The 145th Annual Colorado Press Association Convention: Build Back Better will take place September 21st – 23rd at The Curtis Hotel in downtown Denver. This year’s convention, presented by the Google News Initiative, and in collaboration with the Colorado Media Project and COLab, promises to be an incredible event. Connect with colleagues from across the …
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Join Us: Unveiling Amplify Colorado
Join us from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Sept. 21, 2023, at the Buell Public Media Center (2101 Arapahoe) for a festive reception, where COLab will unveil Amplify Colorado – a publicly accessible directory of members of communities of color with expertise and experience in subjects journalists typically cover, as well as reporter and editor …
2023 Colorado Media Project Summit
What does a healthy local news & information ecosystem look like in 2028 — and how do we get there? Five years ago, a broad coalition of Colorado’s higher education, business, philanthropic, civic and community leaders galvanized around the importance of sustaining local journalism for a healthy democracy. Since then, Colorado’s local news ecosystem has …
Virtual Conference 2023 for ACES: The Society for Editing
Save the date to join ACES: the Society for Editing at the 2023 Virtual Conference September 27-29. This two-and-a-half-day virtual conference will be packed with one-hour educational sessions, opportunities to network with colleagues and industry exhibitors and hear from an inspiring keynote along with ACES leadership about new developments and milestones. Sign up for a …
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The Covering Science Slack: A Peer-Mentoring Community
The Open Notebook is a non-profit organization that provides tools and resources to help science, environmental, and health journalists at all experience levels sharpen their skills. The organization has also published several resources specific to local journalism. You’re invited to join a *free* peer-mentoring community for local and general assignment reporters and editors called the Covering Science Slack. …
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The Chauncey Bailey Journalist of Color Investigative Reporting Fellowship
The year-long program is intended to prepare and support a journalist of color for a solid career in investigative reporting. The program also provides an opportunity for the fellow’s news outlets to benefit from the fellow’s investigative skill-building. An underlying goal of the program is to increase the range of backgrounds, experiences and interests within …
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2023 AccessFest
AccessFest is IRE’s annual virtual-by-design conference. The two-and-a-half-day event will take place online, October 12-14, 2023. The conference, previously branded as the DBEI Symposium, will expand on IRE’s efforts to provide more accessible training centered on belonging, equity, and inclusion in the newsroom and through better news coverage of inequities in the communities journalists serve. …
The AARP Award for Excellence in Journalism on Aging
As the U.S. population gets older, the National Press Foundation established this award, sponsored by AARP, in 2023 to recognize excellence in reporting on issues related to aging. The award seeks to encourage journalists to cover the challenges and opportunities for people and society in the face of significant demographic trends. The award carries two …
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Poynter’s Beat Academy
Poynter’s Beat Academy is a virtual classroom designed to provide journalists from any newsroom the skills to tackle emerging coverage areas, like private equity, and better grounding on key topics like immigration, climate change response, federal infrastructure dollars and more. Pick the sessions you need the most or attend all 18 over eight months. Sign …
Crash Course: Science Essentials for Local Reporters
SciLine has helped thousands of journalists add small but important doses of science to their local news stories. On November 8, 2023, they’re offering a free one-hour “crash course” — designed specifically for local and general assignment print, radio, and TV reporters — to teach basic principles about how science works and ways it can …
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Mini-Bootcamp Online: Web Scraping with Python
In this bootcamp being offered December 4-7th from 10 a.m- 1 p.m. (MT), learn how you can use the Python programming language to scrape data from the web. In this advanced online mini-bootcamp, we’ll cover: Using built-in browser tools to target page elements for extractionSetting up a Python project with a virtual environment, using Jupyter …
New Innovation and Sustainability Initiative to Explore Five Wicked Problems
We are excited to announce COLab will be partnering with Colorado Press Association and Colorado Media Project on a series of media-industry-led working groups that aim to tackle some of the most pressing challenges facing our industry — from growing our digital products to building pathways for a more diverse generation of journalists and more. …
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Watchdog Fund: Support for Colorado Journalists Reporting on Inequities
Colorado journalists and media makers who need access to public records in order to investigate and report on social, economic, racial and other inequities can now find support from a new “watchdog fund” established by the Colorado Media Project. Seeded by The Colorado Trust, the fund will reimburse qualified applicants for money they spend on …
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Colorado: Share Your Idea for a Collaborative Project
In 2023, we’re taking collaborative journalism to a new level in Colorado. COLab staff and news partners will work together to produce four major collaborative projects – one each quarter – on topics you and your communities find important. And we’ll help you find ways to engage with your community and generate revenue around the …
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United States Journalism Emergency Fund
Requests will be reviewed on an ongoing basis in the order they were received. Learn more by visiting IWMF. The International Women’s Media Foundation has partnered with the Craig Newmark Philanthropies to establish the United States Journalism Emergency Fund to directly support U.S. journalists in need so they can resume work essential to our functioning democracy. Applicants must …
The Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund
Applications for support as well as donations to the fund are accepted on an ongoing basis. The Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund (BJTRF), founded by Sonia Weiser in May 2020, is designed to provide financial assistance for Black journalists facing financial hardship who are unable to pay for the mental health support they need during …
Emergency Grants for Coverage of Threats to Democracy in the U.S.
Through the Fund for Investigative Journalism, emergency grants are available for investigative stories that break new ground and expose wrongdoing in the public or private sectors related to threats to democracy. These can include, for example, investigative stories on barriers to voting, voter suppression, misinformation, political influence in election systems, efforts to undermine the rule …
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Protecting Journalists Pro Bono Program
Often journalists are subpoenaed to testify in litigation where they are not a party, but a topic about which they have previously published content is relevant to the litigation. Where the journalists have been subpoenaed, the Protecting Journalists seeks to defend their right to protect their confidential sources and materials gathered in the course of …
Responsible Reporting on Suicide for Journalists
Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide, and groups like the CDC and WHO have identified training journalists to responsibly report on the topic as a key priority for prevention. Carter Center fellow Aneri Pattani (’19-’20) has helped create a free, online course to do just that. Through lectures, readings, and interactive practice activities, …
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Apply to Mentor a Vet
Military Veterans in Journalism (MVJ) is a professional association that creates community for vets, supports their career growth, and advocates for increasing newsroom diversity through hiring more vets. Are you a journalist interested in helping develop the careers of military vets in journalism? If so, apply to become a mentor. You must have three years …
Apply for a Military Veterans in Journalism Grant
Military Veterans in Journalism (MVJ) offers Journalism Grants for quality stories about issues related to disabilities in the military veteran community. This program helps aspiring journalists grow professionally in their reporting careers and publish quality stories about issues related to disabilities in the military veteran community. Grant amounts vary depending on the story, and start …
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Receive Individual Advice on Your Local Investigative Project
ProPublica‘s Local Reporting Network (LRN), which focuses on supporting local and regional newsrooms to produce journalism that affects their communities, is hosting “Office Hours” so journalists can get advice on shaping a local investigative project. Sign up through this form and upload a one-page description of the project or ideas you have in mind. You’ll be paired with a …
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Journalists Trauma Support Network Resources
The Journalists Trauma Support Network (JTSN) is a project of The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. As stated on the JTSN website, “Journalists serve society on the frontlines, and often take on the trauma of the stories they cover. Too often this trauma goes unnoticed and untreated. [JTSN is] building a community to change …
Need a Scientist-Source for a Story Right Now?
From SciLine: Our free Expert Matching service runs from 6am to 6pm MT on weekdays. We ask for at least 2 working hours of lead time to fulfill source requests. We welcome requests from professional journalists reporting for general-interest news outlets that primarily serve a U.S. audience. We especially encourage local, general assignment, and other …
Freelance Investigative Reporters and Editors: Free Consultancy
Two-hour advice sessions for reporting and legal services FIRE offers a range of direct reporting services for individual investigative freelancers in the form of two unique programs—a FIRE Consultancy and a Virtual Newsroom. All FIRE applicants must apply for the FIRE Consultancy. If selected, a recipient may be invited to apply for the Virtual Newsroom, which comes …
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Freelance Investigative Reporters and Editors: Grants and Custom Services for Independent Reporters
FIRE offers a range of direct reporting services for individual investigative freelancers in the form of two unique programs that are used in sequence—a FIRE Consultancy and a Virtual Newsroom. Applicants would first apply to the FIRE Consultancy; and, if selected, may be invited to apply for the Virtual Newsroom, which comes with grants, as detailed below. For …
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