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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
Oct 17, 2023
SRCCON is a peer-led conference from OpenNews for journalists who want to transform their work, their organizations, and their communities. SRCCON 2023 will be held October 17-18 in Minneapolis.
SRCCON sessions are workshops, not panels. Conversations, not presentations. This is a hands-on event about changing journalism — with topics you don’t see at traditional conferences, and sessions that help people imagine a better future together. The whole program (including breaks and meals!) is ab…
Oct 19, 2023
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 up as an individual for $75 to access all webinars, or enroll multiple people.
Each webinar will last 90 minutes, and recordings of each s…
Dec 4, 2023
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 notebooks and installing various scraping and parsing librariesStrategies for navigating various kinds of web pages, from simple (static HTML) to advance…
Dec 31, 2023
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 projects.
We are gathering ideas for story topics from partners and the public.
If you'd like to propose an idea, please complete this survey. Thanks!…
Dec 31, 2023
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 that."
This pilot program is training therapists to help journalists, and at the same time providing resources for journalists.
Therapists are offered training, …
Feb 1, 2024
From Poynter, Beat Academy delivers the latest knowledge that journalists need to cover critical topics of deep importance to their communities. Through engaging webinars that feature the nation’s leading journalists, experts and thinkers, this webinar series equips journalists with beat expertise, data know-how and excellent local and national sources.
In a series of expert-led and resource-packed webinars, Beat Academy will enhance journalists’ understanding on topics critical to American l…
Feb 26, 2024
For journalists, the expanding role of women lawmakers will be central to the coverage of policy and politics in a jam-packed 2024 election year. To help add depth and crucial context to that reporting, the National Press Foundation will hold a four-day training fellowship in Washington, D.C., April 15-18.
Selected journalists will hear from expert speakers and instructors. NPF offers this professional development opportunity for journalists to enhance skills, increase knowledge and recharge …
Mar 11, 2024
ProPublica’s editor training program is a yearlong initiative aimed at expanding and diversifying the pipeline of investigative news editors. The program includes an intensive, all-expenses-paid, weeklong bootcamp in ProPublica's New York offices followed by regular virtual seminars and one-on-one consultations with a ProPublica senior editor.
Participants will learn how to guide reporters through complicated accountability stories, including challenges that may arise when deciphering data, o…
Mar 15, 2024
The 2023 Better News Media Contest, recognizing work published in the last year (Jan. 1, 2023 - Dec. 31, 2023), is open for entries.
Here's what you need to know:
Dates and deadlines:January 1 - Contest opensMarch 8 - Early bird pricing ends (prices increase $2 per entry)March 15 - Final deadline
No deadline extensions will be permitted, so we strongly encourage contest managers to log in to the online contest portal early to ensure any problems are identified and resolved prior to t…
Mar 15, 2024
The Colorado Press Association's News Leader Award recognizes public service work that reflects compassion, courage, humanity and a deep concern for a community. Recipients will be awarded for outstanding vision, dedication, and commitment. This can be awarded to individuals or a team of reporters, editors, news directors, columnists, editorial writers, photographers, videographers and graphic artists. Nomination Guidelines:The nominee must actively lead and positively influence the newspap…
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