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When Colorado journalists try to pry info out of governments, ‘cost...

Journalists in Colorado so appreciate the Colorado Open Records Act that at least one reporter who worked here chose Cora as his daughter's middle...

Target: Colorado. New statewide digital news outlet is launching to cover...

A new statewide nonprofit digital news outlet with robust but undisclosed funding will launch in the coming months to cover public affairs in Colorado. An editor and a...

Colorado lawmakers sided with police over media about keeping radio chatter secret...

In a state capitol where Democrats control the House, Senate, and governorship, lawmakers sided with law enforcement agencies on efforts to keep some police...

Guest Post: The people’s fight for open government It is up...

A major battle plays out daily in Colorado as some of our elected and appointed officials — all of whom took a solemn oath...

Denver Post’s hedge-fund owner lost a ‘hostile takeover bid’ of the...

The hedge fund that controls Media News Group, née Digital First Media — also known as The Nothing, and for gutting newsrooms like The...

Denver Post yanks back its 2014 endorsement of Cory Gardner: ‘We see...

In an eye-opening move, the Denver Post on Thursday reversed its 2014 endorsement of U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner after the Republican senator from Yuma stuck with...

Media: Denver police want to block radio chatter from the public— but not selected news...

Last month, I highlighted a piece by my colleague Jonathan Peters, a lawyer and Columbia Journalism Review's press freedom correspondent, about dozens of police agencies in Colorado encrypting their radio...

From our editor: Hello sunshine!

Dear readers, In a year when far too many dark clouds have loomed over Colorado's news landscape, there's some good news on the horizon with...

Hickenlooper vetoes bill to limit public access to child autopsy reports,...

Gov. John Hickenlooper vetoed a proposed law Friday that would have limited public access to child autopsy reports in an effort to protect the...

As seen on TV: Super PAC spending in the Colorado governor’s...

Two Super PACs will advertise heavily on TV in support of Democratic candidates for governor Cary Kennedy and Mike Johnston in the month before...
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