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Colorado news organizations were among millions of businesses nationwide that accepted federal money to help weather a financial battering from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Data released...
For the first 2020 edition of this humble newsletter-and-column enterprise that began chronicling Colorado media issues in 2015, we review the year and all that...
"Crime and corruption, troubled schools, drug epidemics, natural disasters — the news deals with some pretty discouraging subjects. But it doesn’t have to be...
Not long ago, I started noticing Colorado-specific news items in an unlikely place: my Instagram feed. These were short video clips with text about the...
Go to the website of Empowering Colorado and you won't make it past a splash page announcing that it's now an official nonprofit and is reorganizing...
Journalists are the "enemy of the people." The "failing New York Times." Fake news, Yadda, yadda. We've heard it all from President Donald Trump and his dedicated fans....
The vultures are circling again. But I'm sick of the metaphor. It's time for a new one. In coverage of The Denver Post's cost-cutting hedge-fund owners, the caricature has been a vulture, circling dead...
"In Colorado, it’s very real. A modern-day book-burning crusade is underway."
That's according to Jim Duncan, director of the nonprofit Colorado Library Consortium, who has been ringing...