Thank you to the loyal readers and supporters of The Colorado Independent (2013-2020). The Indy has merged with the new nonprofit Colorado News Collaborative (COLab) on a new mission to strengthen local news in Colorado. We hope you will join us!
A new digital site that's recruiting freelance journalists and looking to become a "national alt-weekly" is co-owned by a former Colorado journalist-turned cannabis PR...
Throughout the past eight months of the pandemic, newspapers have been gushing red ink.
Money woes led to layoffs, reduced circulation and printing days, closures, and...
Conversations about whether to increase public-sector support for a struggling local news industry have been taking place lately among Colorado's journalistic community more than...
The dramatic transformation from journalists on the job into witnesses for the police in a broad-daylight fatal shooting at a downtown Denver protest took...
The powerful national nonprofit public-interest journalism outlet ProPublica is expanding — perhaps even into our state's borders.
From an announcement this week:
ProPublica announced on Thursday that it is...
How can a major local TV station adequately correct misleading election information it published in an environment where a credible news outlet's mistakes can become...
Colorado's Democratic U.S. senator, Michael Bennet, this week introduced legislation that, if passed, would examine ways in which the federal government might try to...
When The Washington Post embarked on a major project to document every instance of gun violence on a single day in America, Colorado wound up the setting for two of...
As legacy newspapers fade in cities across the country with many of them cutting their print days, shedding staff, and shrinking their circulation areas, some former...