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Let COLab connect you with all kinds of opportunities — from grants and other revenue options, to training and workshops, to events of all kinds. We’ll let you know when, where and how to sign up.
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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
May 9, 2023
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.
The announcement below from CMP details each of the topics and how you can get involved.
Join Us to Explore Five Wicked Problems
Today, C…
Jun 27, 2023
On behalf of the Paris-based freedom of press watchdog Reporters Without Borders, you're invited to celebrate the Journalism Trust Initiative's one-year anniversary in the United States.
The JT is an international benchmark designed as an ISO standard for the news publishing industry. It helps identify the identity and transparency of publishers and the professional standards and accountability mechanisms that govern their editorial output. In the US, dozens of newsro…
Jun 28, 2023
You're invited to join free virtual training sessions on covering climate issues in the West, hosted by University of Southern California and available to Colorado journalists thanks to COLab board chairwoman, USC professor emerita Judy Muller.
These sessions are designed to provide immediately useful virtual training, including experts, tools and tips, especially for reporting on climate in conservative communities.
Here are some details:
All sessions are listed at 3 pm MDT.
Session…
Jul 1, 2023
The Pulitzer Center is offering 10-month Al Accountability Fellowships to support journalists working on in-depth AI accountability stories that examine governments' and corporations’ uses of predictive and surveillance technologies to guide decisions in policing, medicine, social welfare, the criminal justice system, hiring, and more.
The 10-month Fellowship will provide journalists up to $20,000 to pursue their reporting project. The funds can be used to pay for records requests, travel exp…
Jul 6, 2023
Since 2018, Colorado Media Project has supported the #newsCOneeds matching challenge as a statewide campaign to help Colorado newsrooms spotlight the positive impacts they are making in their communities, and to build trust in and support for local public-service journalism.
Please join us on Thursday, July 6, 2023 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. to lear more about the 2023 #newsCOneeds grant opportunity.
This year’s #newsCOneeds program features an expanded fundraising capacity building and traini…
Jul 13, 2023
Do you have questions about covering Indigenous and tribal communities? Do you want to deepen your understanding or your reporting skills on these communities? Join us for a three-part, virtual training program that examines issues such as avoiding harmful stereotypes, understanding cultural nuances and making appropriate language choices.
The series is hosted by the Mountain West News Bureau — a collaboration of public media stations that serves the Western states of Colorado, Idaho, Nevada,…
Jul 17, 2023
This year’s #newsCOneeds program — supported by Colorado Media Project — challenges participating newsrooms to raise $5,000 from individual contributors between November 30 or Giving Tuesday (a.k.a. #GivingNewsDay) and Dec. 31. The 2023 program features an expanded fundraising capacity building and training workshop, which begins late July, 2023. These workshops will include hands-on coaching from news industry and fundraising experts with the Colorado News Collaborative, Local Media Association…
Jul 17, 2023
The USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Data Fellowship offers journalists an opportunity to transform their reporting by training them to “interview the data” as if it were a human source. Equipped with the tools to find original sources of information and perform data analysis, Fellows graduate from this hands-on training program prepared to produce a major investigative or explanatory health reporting project in the months that follow.
This program offers training on data acquisiti…
Jul 26, 2023
Presented by Experts on Camera from SciLine: Short-Staffed Nursing Homes
Eighty-four percent of nursing homes report moderate or high levels of staffing shortages, according to an industry survey from December
Available Expert:
Dr. Jasmine Travers is a gerontological nurse practitioner and an assistant professor of nursing at New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She can discuss topics including:
–How nursing home staffing affects quality of care and health outcomes for…
Aug 1, 2023
Join Local Media Association (LMA) in Chicago at the Gleacher Center on August 1-2 for LMA Fest – a unique event focused on revenue, opportunities, and the future of local media.
Two tracks: C-level executives and digital sales managers
LMA members ALWAYS receive free registrations to this event as part of LMA's dues value proposition.
Non-members are welcome to join as well for a fee of $695.
learn more & register…
Check out everything we’ve offered before now by visiting the Past Opportunities archive.