Aspen is one of the few towns left in the U.S. with two competing daily newspapers. And it's the (checks notes) Colorado Sun, based in Denver, that says it broke the news that authorities are reviewing the 2005 death of Hunter S. Thompson.

This panel discussion about citizen journalism is happening in Denver in an hour: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/citizen-jo...

👀 The front-page above-the-fold story in Friday’s hedge-fund-owned Estes Park Trail-Gazette is a press release and its lead editorial is by the mayor

This week's news behind the news in Colorado includes big changes in the sprawling, rural San Luis Valley and a longtime editorial page editor OUT at a legacy newspaper that shaped conservative political opinion in the state: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/five-newsp...

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support: • 404 Media • Defector • The Flytrap • Flaming Hydra • The Appeal • Aftermath • Racket • Hell Gate • The 51st • The Colorado Sun • Range Media • Discourse Blog • Pop Heist

Yes this was also a motivating factor for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social

Why some U.S. journalists are just doing their own thing

“Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said while speaking on a panel Tuesday morning at New York Law School: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

👀 Longtime editorial page editor Wayne Laugesen's name no longer appears on the Gazette's editorial board: gazette.com/opinion/edit...

A missed opportunity to say “Go local!” (My newsletter “Inside the News in Colorado” is 10 years old this month) www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/i-te...

"In fact, parents have no legitimate excuse to allow children younger than six to use screens. The only real explanation is their desire to get some child-free time for themselves." andrey4mir.substack.com/p/screen-tim...

strongly paywalled www.bcdemocratonline.com/ices-detenti... also includes a new "search with AI" box @coreyhutchins.bsky.social

Yowzers. "Korte ... thought she was free to use the program on her computer to check her copy for such things as grammar, style and spelling: 'I believed this was a trusted newsroom-approved AI program.'" isthmus.com/news/news/wi...

I wrote this only on Wednesday: "Giving Bari Weiss some sort of oversight role may represent a new low, but I have a feeling that will soon be eclipsed by some other outrage." dankennedy.net/2025/09/04/c...

Another newspaper on Colorado’s rural Eastern Plains has announced plans to fold up shop. What the epidemic looks like: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/another-ne...

“Planned closure of The Limon Leader would leave another ‘news desert’ on Colorado’s Eastern Plains”: coloradosun.com/2025/09/05/l... from @coloradosun.com

With public media under siege, High Plains Public Radio builds a blueprint to cover more rural news with fewer resources. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/with...

Another Eastern Plains Colorado newspaper closing. There's an epidemic out there! www.facebook.com/TheLimonLead...

The trailer for a new documentary called “Truth Be Told,” about how Coloradans practice local journalism, is out this week: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/new-colora...

Can alternative newspapers revive journalism? www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion...

To balance the state budget, Colorado Democrats cut transgender healthcare in prisons, among other things: youtu.be/zDf_EfiNKVY?... The governor said the money was more than the program needed

Good lord. This was Gmail's AI suggested email response to a reader pointing out a legit typo in a recent newsletter.

For those outlets that do this, what is the case for not posting the primary source material? Is it worrying that once it’s “out there” your traffic to the story will diminish from subsequent reports?

this picture of a mom shoes off sprinting to the Mpls school: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... By Richard Tsong-Taatarii for @startribune.com, which should be a go-to source for anyone following

Is the term "journalist" falling out of favor? From a new influential paper: "We define an information steward as anyone who is intentionally contributing to meeting a community's information needs by making and distributing news and information": www.pressforward.news/wp-content/u...

America's founding fathers knew the value of a free and independent press. I'm excited for Next to showcase a 12-part, locally-produced project delivering short, approachable conversations about the First Amendment. Details from @coreyhutchins.bsky.social: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/pro-journa...

Best film on streaming in a long time hands own: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIf2...

First item in this week's behind the scenes Colorado media newsletter: A multi-media campaign is rolling out across Colorado aimed at educating viewers about the importance of a free and independent press. coloradomedia.substack.com/p/pro-journa...

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Denver PR pro Jeremy Story does a "Who Had the Worst Week" list at this DenverPRBlog: denverprblog.com

👀 Speaking at the Colorado Press Association's convention, "the state’s top law enforcement official asked the assembled press corps to let him know if anyone had any other concerns about consolidation and how it might affect their advertising sales:" coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-a...

Colorado has one remaining alternative-weekly newspaper left after the humiliating catch-and-smother of the Colorado Springs Indy and the messy collapse of Boulder Weekly. Westword is still letting everyone know it's an alt with this headline, "Hey Dickheads"

Bad on every level. Far and away the best TV newsroom in Colorado likely to get swallowed up by the worst, under a corporate parent that’s already positioned itself as News Corp Lite and will face explicit pressure to go even further in that direction to win FCC approval.

The end of 9NEWS in Denver would mean an unthinkable loss of investigative and accountability journalism in a major U.S. city: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-a... (second item in the newsletter)

Absolutely true. Met someone at a conference this weekend, went to follow up with an email later by looking up their author bio at a publication, and zero contact info. 🤷‍♂️

Whoa. @npr.org had better be careful or Trump will cut off their funding. Oh, wait... www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...

During Thursday’s roughly 45-minute discussion at the Colorado Press Association convention, this candidate for governor cast himself as a friend of the press: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-a...

Seen at the Colorado Press Association annual convention

Caitlin Kelly's advice for young and emerging journalists here includes just a really great three-word gem that, honestly, just can't be taken for granted anymore: yourfirstbyline.substack.com/p/my-first-b...

Wyoming newspaper executives Robb and Jen Hicks and Rob Mortimore announced Tuesday they’ve reached an agreement to purchase eight local newspapers and will keep them running after an out-of-state corporate owner shuttered them without warning last week. wyofile.com/longtime-wyo...

"Journalism in the 1930s failed to communicate the danger of Hitler’s rise. Are we repeating the same mistake now?" www.cjr.org/analysis/whe...

“A seven-day print subscription to Alden’s Denver Post now costs $779.40 a year. Before Alden bought the Post, a seven-day print sub cost $130 a year — $198.64, adjusted for inflation. You bet they’re interested in keeping print alive.”

Should a county government pay upwards of $350,000 to a local newspaper publisher to help the county spread “good news?” coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-n... Also in this week's end-of-the-week newsletter, backlash to a buzzy Denver Post story, how a local TV station is using AI, and more

Just a massive difference between the commenters on Twitter/X and the commenters on the Reddit/r/Denver about the Denver Post's DoBetterDNVR story: Twitter/X: x.com/ShellyBradbu... (overwhelmingly negative) Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Denver/com... (overwhelmingly positive)

Long, meaty Colorado media newsletter coming out before your Mountain Time lunch break today (I hope). Keep an eye on your inboxes...

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And this is the *Colorado* state legislature that compared to their states is typically less scandalous: coloradosun.com/2025/08/07/y... These days…

Um, no? Is this just flat-out saying that "journalism" cannot have a point of view or opinion. And it just conflates journalism with reporting. Not helpful, really, IMO: www.denverpost.com/2025/08/07/d...

Meet my weekly eve-of-publication Substack nemesis

I'm using Beautiful.ai to create slide presentations for projects, and as someone who has kind of dreaded this, it's been worth the subscription fee. Sometimes when I look up my decade-old slides for class I feel like a birthday clown showing up with beat-up old prop trunk with rubber chickens in it