What is the history of media and race in Colorado? What role has journalism played in contributing to anti-Black rhetoric and narratives? How can acknowledging this history inform our journalism and begin to repair active distrust between Black communities and newsrooms?
Foundation leaders shed light on local journalism’s unprecedented challenges ahead, and why 2021 may be the start of the best forced “do-over” ever.
News Voices: Colorado is listening to residents around the state to understand their questions about how local news is covering the protests, how that coverage is specifically impacting Black residents — and what can be done to repair trust.
“All politics is local,” so the saying goes. The same could be said for misinformation. The 2016 elections brought stories of Macedonian teens pulling quick profits and Russian agents seeding polarization across the United States. But 2020 is teaching us that whatever the origins of a rumor, misleading meme or photo, it is the local twist and organic amplification that give it power — often leading to impact offline.
Today we published our CMP Annual Report for 2019. Our work over the past year reaffirmed just how many community
By Alan Gottlieb Introduction One cold December evening, a year after a police officer killed a mentally-ill man in the
In 2019, Colorado Media Project published a path-leading report, “Local News is a Public Good: Public Pathways for Supporting Coloradans’
What kind of news and information do Coloradans crave on arts and culture, and how do they want to connect?
Photos courtesy of The Colorado Sun By Alan Gottlieb Summary “Parked” a collaborative project that developed organically thanks to the
