"The University of Colorado Board of Regents, controlled by a Democratic majority, has elected Republican Regent Ken Montera as chair of the board, as some Democratic regents and state political organizations oppose Republican leadership on the board." www.dailycamera.com/2026/01/16/c...

An open-government group, journalists, and their advocates put pressure on the legislature to finally drag Colorado into the civic digital age. And they succeeded: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-j...

A model for covering State of the State speeches by governors. Don't just be a stenographer of what the politician said. Analyze each remark and offer fact-checks and context. Here's how the Colorado Sun does it well: coloradosun.com/2026/01/15/2...

“San Francisco Superior Court Judge Christine Van Aken is expected to rule shortly on a request by Lowell High School teacher Eric Gustafson for a court order restoring him to his positions as journalism teacher and faculty advisor to the student newspaper.” thevoicesf.org/san-francisc...

Not just an investigative story. Every story: "Knoetze stressed the importance of the final line-by-line edit and fact check. Investigative reporting carries consequences, and assumptions cannot be left unchallenged. Every sentence must be substantiated": gijn.org/stories/how-...

And, you know, she's married to the son of the news organization owner who sits on your editorial board, but who's counting: www.denvergazette.com/2026/01/09/f...

Do you have a plan for when it happens to you? stevegroveview.substack.com/p/no-steve-g...

Good context for what you might be hearing or seeing from relatives who watch a certain cable channel about what's been going on in Minnesota: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

These kinds of things always made me uncomfortable. Here, the governor of Colorado proclaims a state day for a retiring investigative journalist: www.facebook.com/watch/?v=258...

A meaty news-behind-the-news in Colorado newsletter this week: A mistrial trial in an attack on a reporter, a local meteorologist going out on his own, AI slop taking over the student newspaper at the state's flagship university, and more: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/mistrial-i...

“Can a journalist tell the truth about January 6 without consequences? Increasingly it depends on which media company the journalist works for.”

Outside, in the dark, for the first time, you inadvertently dump about four cubic feet of recyclable material — soup cans, cardboard pasta boxes, some plastic— into the landfill curbside container instead of the yellowtop. Do you return the following morning to rectify this or let it ride?

In the trial for a man accused of following a nonwhite Colorado TV reporter and then tackling and choking him outside the station after yelling "This is Trump's America now," the defense is arguing he experienced “medical hysteria" from a Benadryl prescription: www.kkco11news.com/2026/01/06/t...

👀 "Defense attorneys also asked potential jurors if they thought it was possible the media could get things wrong sometimes." www.kkco11news.com/2026/01/06/j...

The oldest newspaper in a rural Pennsylvania county has closed after 154 years: www.pennlive.com/news/2026/01... “I couldn’t continue to put in the time and get little return for it”

How CU Boulder’s student news site got taken over by AI slop trib.al/LKxte41

News organizations held off on reporting about the Venezuela raid, Semafor reports, “keeping with longstanding American journalistic traditions — even at a moment of unprecedented mutual hostility between the American president and a legacy media”: www.semafor.com/article/01/0...

👀 Inbox: “As part of Boulder Weekly’s next chapter, we are beginning the process of transitioning the paper into a nonprofit, community-ownership model, a structure designed to protect editorial independence and ensure long-term sustainability.”

Oooookaaaay, do WHAT now? This newspaper in Montana is just... is this what I think it is? www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/bo-zang...

Companies churn out best/worst lists knowing credulous news outlets will publish them for clicks. The President may have just relied on one to cut off a clean drinking water project in Colorado.

What was happening in Colorado on Jan. 1, 1876? Senior reporter @chasewoodruff.bsky.social explored historic newspapers to offer a window on the lives of residents 150 years ago. This story is part of Colorado at 150, a special Newsline reporting project to mark Colorado's 150th anniversary.

🍾💥What happened in Colorado’s media world in 2025: coloradosun.com/2026/01/01/c...

Easy to say, harder to do: “Our editors and reporters retain full autonomy over what they cover, how they cover it and who they hold accountable — including businesses or entities connected to ownership.” www.aspendailynews.com/opinion/cook...

“Aspen Daily News employees learned Monday morning the newspaper is set to be sold to Florida-based Hoffmann Media Group at the end of January after the owners and sellers reached an agreement over the weekend.” www.aspendailynews.com/news/aspen-d...

Colorado Springs residents seek to curb speeding and save lives through advocacy, activism. They’re not alone.

Read about the process of journalistic verification and how some in the U.S. government are responding to it these days: link.propublica.net/view/5f0a0ac...

The editor of the largest mainstream news operation in Colorado that Republicans in the state tend to read and respect has come out in favor of taxpayer support for local news: www.coloradopolitics.com/2025/12/27/t...

End-of-year Top 10 lists aren’t particularly easy. They’re inherently subjective and your inbox can fill up with gripes about what you chose, what you left out, or how you wound up ordering them. coloradomedia.substack.com/p/top-10-col...

🤔This station is literally in the shadow of NORAD 🎅

Another one: “The University of Maryland will uphold two student conduct charges that a civil liberties advocacy organization asked be dropped against student journalists who were detained by UMPD while reporting on a protest outside an event in October.” dbknews.com/2025/12/23/u...

The news behind the news in Colorado this week includes a short-circuited TV deal, a small-town newspaper having to report the news of its own editor's arrest, a hopeful digital archive return, a First Amendment dispute, and more: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-t...

Once in a while you win one. “The board determined, after careful review, that Sinclair’s offer was not in the best interests of Scripps and our shareholders as well as our employees and the many communities and audiences we serve in the United States." coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-t...

Hum… Where's Aborad?

Good lord, this headline! Even with the rival newspaper recently closed and its publisher dead, a newspaper war in small-town southern Colorado carries on

I researched what colleges & universities across the country are doing to support their state's media ecosystem. The findings are encouraging and show higher-ed institutions serving as critical infrastructure for the future and sustainability of local news: www.uvm.edu/d10-files/do... #academicsky

Old enough to remember flipping through daytime TV on a lazy summer day and if a certain movie was on not being able to change the channel no matter how many times you’d seen it before. ‘Stand By Me’ and ‘A Few Good Men’ every time.

"Schools that recognize the importance of allowing students to seek and report news freely will hopefully see a flourishing of good student journalism": jamesgmartin.center/2025/12/the-...

For the past five years, I've penned a meaty roundup of what happened in Colorado's local media world, published in the Colorado Sun. Each year had a theme. Working on the one for 2025, and ... I think it's going to be bleak. Here's the archive: coloradosun.com/author/corey...

Trump flew to the moon. But physics experts say gravity might be an issue.

The heads of three public radio stations in Colorado this week told a federal judge that they fear what might happen to them if they keep relying on NPR. coloradomedia.substack.com/p/in-court-c...

If you had a chance to update the most prominent Ethics Code for journalism, what would you change? I'm on a committee charged w/updating the Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Ethics for the modern age. And I'm interested in YOUR ideas. READ: loom.ly/syOVwBM

Bennett trustees voted this week to settle a First Amendment claim brought by a weekly newspaper that lost town advertising last spring because the board didn’t like an article about a sexual assault that allegedly happened in the locker room of a middle school.

In the current hyper-political regulatory environment, this could actually be more than a quip…

Remarkable back-and-forth between the Obama-appointed judge and the Trump government attorney during recent oral arguments in the lawsuit from NPR and three Colorado stations about the constitutionality of Trump's "Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media" executive order

Notable story here at @columjournreview.bsky.social about Perez Hilton seeking a journalist's privilege to beat back a subpoena and eventually getting an alley-oop from the ACLU: www.cjr.org/feature/pere...

This is happening all over the country (is anyone covering it in your state?) but here I've focused on the implications for three cities in Colorado. coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-t...

Neoliberalism squared

New report: "How journalists respond to democracy under threat:" collaborativejournalism.org/wp-content/d... "In the U.S. and abroad, a free, independent press is often understood as a crucial pillar of a healthy, functioning democracy. But what does this actually look like, in practice?"

The first comment on this AP story about the passed out drunk raccoon found in the Virginia liquor store bathroom: 🤣: apnews.com/article/drun...

Christian Anschutz is on the editorial board of the Denver Gazette and his dad owns the newspaper, but ... whatever, I guess? www.9news.com/article/news...