🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Who will give up their water? Colorado farmers fear a growing city’s need for more to feed development. trib.al/FOZ1P1n

Did Substack stop showing the specific links subscribers clicked in the analytics?

in a reported and personal piece, Corey Hutchins writes of #ColoradoSprings and Colorado Springs Indepedent layoffs-sale, "Local news is a public good — and local ownership obviously matters. The nation’s 40th largest city deserves a robust media scene." coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-spr…

Celebrating the best of Colorado journalism: Watch SPJ Colorado's presentation of its 2025 individual awards: Keeper of the Flame, Journalist of the Year, First Amendment Award, and Educator of the Year. Link here. >> youtube.com/live/IyGRJsmq1…

The Local wants a break from the traditional format and conventions of local TV news. Those behind it believe they have a solution for the funding side that isn’t based solely on advertising but instead on content contracts with streaming platforms. niemanlab.org/2025/05/the-lo…

The Local aims to reinvent TV news in four states, and beyond: niemanlab.org/2025/05/the-lo… It would do something that no one has either tried to do or has succeeded in doing: put local news on the TV screens of a streaming service that the platform itself paid to produce.

EVENT: Montclair State University's Center for Cooperative Media is holding its annual 2025 Collaborative Journalism Summit on May 15-16 in Thornton. SPJ Colorado board member Corey Hutchins will be on a panel on collaborative momentum. Details here. collaborativejournalism.org/cjs2025/

Colorado will be a pilot site for a media startup's effort to reinvent local news funded through contracts with streaming platforms. Very interesting concept as outlined by Corey Hutchins in Nieman Lab. niemanlab.org/2025/05/the-lo…

DEADLINE MAY 30! Help lead the Colorado chapter of the nation's oldest and most broad-based journalism organization! SPJ Colorado Pro is seeking nominations for its board. Details here >> spjcolorado.org/2025/05/07/cal…

Newsletter out early. Check your inbox.

“The shortages of reporters are more severe, and I would say more widespread, than we thought. We knew there were really egregious pockets, but this shows it’s everywhere." niemanlab.org/2025/07/new-re…

More than 1,000 U.S. counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist. niemanlab.org/2025/07/new-re…

If you’re wondering what happened at my job this week, here’s a great place to start 👉 coloradomedia.substack.com/p/boulder-week…

.Nieman Lab: “A group of journalism advocates from the nonprofit Rebuild Local News and the tech platform Muck Rack say they have counted — for the first time — how many journalists remain in the United States.” niemanlab.org/2025/07/new-re…

Boulder Weekly implodes. 'The newsroom is gone,' fired editor says. Paper's future uncertain by Corey Hutchins coloradomedia.substack.com/p/boulder-week…

Boulder Weekly implodes. 'The newsroom is gone,' fired editor says. Paper's future uncertain coloradomedia.substack.com/p/boulder-week…

We're now seeking proposals to fund story collection, journalism, content creation & narrative evaluation efforts capable of engaging Colorado audiences frequently left out of the discussion about the issues facing our child care system. Apply by 8/3! garycommunity.org/rfp/?utm_sourc…

🎓 ATTN: College journalism professors. I'm looking to find out what you're doing to support your state's local media ecosystem *beyond* student reporting. Fill out this survey if that's you. I'm researching it for UVM's Center for Community News: uvm.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=…