Corey Hutchins
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Colorado, United States
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Denver is NewsBreak’s “test market” for original local news on a national app
For the past few months, the Mountain View, Calif.–based NewsBreak has been paying full-time and part-time journalists in Denver, along with a dedicated editor, to publish local news on its platform. → Read More
A New Newspaper Ownership Model Emerges in Colorado – COLab
Once again, Colorado is staking out new ground in the battle to save local news, this time with a first-in-the-nation effort to keep newspapers locally owned and thriving. For about a year now, Jerry and Ann Healey, owners of Colorado Community Media and its chain of two dozen weekly papers in e → Read More
Denver shooting turns journalists on the job into witnesses for the police
A look at the many media angles to a fatal Oct. 10 shooting in Denver witnessed by journalists for The Denver Post and KUSA 9News → Read More
Colorado's Michael Bennet introduces a federal bill to help save the local news
If passed, the bill would create a panel to examine what the federal government might do to help alleviate the local news crisis → Read More
Journalism beyond competition
The story of contemporary Colorado journalism can be told in two acts. In the first, the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post are locked in one of the late twentieth century’s wildest newspaper wars, which ended in 2009 with the Rocky’s demise. In the second, a fragmented media landscape of upstart publications is galvanized […] → Read More
Local news on your cord-cutter video service?
The drop in advertising continues to wreak havoc on Colorado's newsrooms, plus the ptich for a local 50-state video news network. → Read More
‘Orphan counties,’ and a battle over what local news really means
Jill and Michael Fischer live seven miles outside the city of Durango, a historic mountain town of nearly 20,000 and the seat of La Plata County in southwest Colorado. When they turn on their TV for local news, however, evening broadcasts—about community events, the weather, and most notably politics—arrive via satellite from Albuquerque, New Mexico, […] → Read More
Should a Colorado library publish local news?
A late-night debate in a sparsely attended city council chamber in Colorado on Tuesday opened a new front in the national conversation about how to sustain local news. Voters in Longmont—who previously approved a publicly owned fiber-optic broadband network, and now have some of the fastest internet speeds in the nation—could be asked to consider […] → Read More
Colorado’s top offices go blue —
Midterm voters elected Jared Polis, the nation’s first openly gay governor. → Read More
Mugshot galleries might be a web-traffic magnet. Does that justify publishing them?
During a conference call with employees in the Lee Enterprises newspaper chain this summer, an editor at the Times of Northwest Indiana explained a secret behind her paper’s online traffic boom. Mugshots, she shared in a presentation, had been a “game-changer” for the paper, which includes collections of booking photos below its crime stories and […] → Read More
Power lawyer slaps money-in-politics complaint on group backing independents in Colorado
A high-powered Denver attorney who specializes in election law and often represents Democrats is drawing a bead on Unite America, a group seeking to get five independent candidates elected to the legislature in November. On Monday, Mark Grueskin filed a 15-page campaign finance complaint with the Colorado Secretary of State accusing Unite America, formerly called… Continue Reading Power lawyer… → Read More
The Colorado Sun pits Civil-backed startup against The Denver Post
The politics desk at The Denver Post has imploded. Starting in April with voluntary exits that included Brian Eason, a Statehouse reporter, and climaxing this month with a new round of departures, four of the political writers and an editor have gone. John Frank and Jesse Paul, who also covered the Statehouse, resigned in recent […] → Read More
Fired Boulder Daily Camera editor sought local owners for DFM paper
THE DENVER POST‘S editorial rebellion against its owners—Digital First Media and its hedge-fund controller, Alden Global Capital—peaked again late last week, when three high-profile editors and the paper’s chairman resigned in the course of two days. Yesterday, CJR reported on an editorial, written by ex-Post Editorial Page Editor Chuck Plunkett, that criticized the Post’s owners and was […] → Read More
Rejected Denver Post editorial decries ‘outright censorship’ at Digital First papers
ON THURSDAY, DENVER POST Editorial Page Editor Chuck Plunkett resigned from his position. According to Plunkett, an executive with Digital First Media—the nation’s second-largest newspaper chain, controlled by the Alden Global Capital hedge fund—declined to approve an editorial Plunkett wrote that was critical of the Post’s owners. Since Plunkett’s resignation, two more senior editors quit, and… → Read More
Economic Hardship Reporting Project to fund work by laid-off Denver Post staffers
AFTER 21 YEARS at The Denver Post, Jason Blevins, the paper’s one-man mountain bureau, is now pitching stories as an independent journalist without the assurances of a full-time paycheck. “In the past three weeks or a month I have been schooled in the realities of freelance, and it’s a hard gig,” says Blevins, who covered the […] → Read More
‘We’re not expecting a miracle’: Denver Post rebellion receives mixed response
THE DENVER POST’S recent, dramatic rebellion against its hedge-fund owner generated national headlines and heartened a few media watchers. According to a new report in The New York Times, the Post‘s move also prompted a group of investors called Together for Colorado Springs, chaired by the founder of the Colorado Springs Independent, to begin assembling a plan to try and purchase […] → Read More
Meet the journalist tracking Digital First Media’s hedge fund owner
FOR TWO YEARS, JULIE REYNOLDS has cranked out stories about Alden Global Capital, the secretive New York hedge fund that controls Digital First Media, the nation’s second-largest newspaper chain. She has profiled the firm’s elusive leaders and closely chronicles DFM’s layoffs, which recently include two-dozen employees from the Bay Area News Group and roughly a third […] → Read More
Wyoming journalists seek union security ‘to speak directly to our readers’
AMONG THE REASONS journalists at Wyoming’s largest newspaper plan to unionize? They feel it’s the best way to safeguard their ability to report on themselves, in the event they have to. The newly formed Casper News Guild, comprising members of the Casper Star-Tribune, announced its union drive on February 6. The Star-Tribune is owned by Lee […] → Read More
Denver Post launches new paywall, hopes for a steadier future
THIS WEEK, DENVER POST STAFFERS rallied around their paper’s new $11.99-per-month paywall, optimistic that the move might bring more resources to a beleaguered Post newsroom. But the paywall goes up at a rocky time for Colorado’s largest newspaper, in which layoffs, an impending move, and the sudden resignation of its publisher have left some at the paper […] → Read More
Press freedoms under attack: CJR correspondent revisits stories of the past year
OVER THE PAST YEAR, as a correspondent for CJR’s United States Project, I reported how a local new outlet was fighting to gain access to public text messages of rural sheriffs in North Carolina, and how a publisher in Colorado pledged to sue a state senator for defamation when the politician called his local newspaper […] → Read More