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Press Forward Colorado: CMP Takes Lead Role as Local Home for Nationwide Initiative

Press Forward Colorado: CMP Takes Lead Role as Local Home for Nationwide Initiative

The Colorado Health Foundation, The Colorado Trust, Gates Family Foundation, The Gill Foundation, and Rose Community Foundation have stepped forward to lead Press Forward Colorado as a local affiliate of the nationwide Press Forward initiative. As the “home” of Press Forward Colorado, Colorado Media Project will expand its efforts to introduce more place-based funders to the value of investing in local journalism.

Call for Partners: Engaging Communities in an Election Year … and Beyond

Call for Partners: Engaging Communities in an Election Year … and Beyond

Colorado’s local and statewide newsrooms and nonpartisan community and civic groups are invited to join forces with Rocky Mountain Public Media, Colorado State University’s Center for Public Deliberation, the Colorado Press Association, Colorado News Collaborative, and the Colorado Media Project in a statewide campaign to reclaim and reimagine the public square across all of Colorado’s 64 counties.

All Colorado newsrooms are invited to participate in this project to the depth of their choosing. This could range from promoting the initiative and encouraging your audiences to participate in regional events, to asking your community the common questions (to be developed in conjunction with participating newsrooms), to reporting the results and ensuring your community is represented in the statewide reporting, to joining a cohort that will receive additional training and support for community listening and engagement, and/or joining the steering committee for the project.

Announcing More Than $360,000 in Grants to Advance Equity and Inclusion in Local Colorado News

Announcing More Than $360,000 in Grants to Advance Equity and Inclusion in Local Colorado News

Today Colorado Media Project is announcing 27 new grants totaling $368,300 that will support Colorado newsrooms, journalists, and media entrepreneurs in launching new projects and strengthening existing efforts to build a more inclusive local news ecosystem that reflects and serves Colorado’s diverse communities.


Meet the 28 Colorado Community Newsrooms Poised to Collaboratively Raise $1 Million for Local News This Holiday Season

Meet the 28 Colorado Community Newsrooms Poised to Collaboratively Raise $1 Million for Local News This Holiday Season

With support from the Colorado Media Project, 30 Colorado newsrooms aim to raise over $1 million to support local news this holiday season.

Community News Innovation and Sustainability: Join Us to Explore Five Wicked Problems

Community News Innovation and Sustainability: Join Us to Explore Five Wicked Problems

Today, Colorado Media Project is excited to announce $360,000 in new commitments to ecosystem partners who are dedicated to helping our state’s local newsrooms explore and pilot innovative solutions to wicked problems that they are facing right now, in communities across the state. And we invite you to join us.

Fighting To Be Seen: A Call From Colorado’s AANHPI Communities for Equitable and Just Local News

Fighting To Be Seen: A Call From Colorado’s AANHPI Communities for Equitable and Just Local News

In a new report, 30 journalists and community residents of different Asian, South Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) provide four key recommendations for more accurate representation in local media.

Announcing $350,000+ in Grants to Advance Equity and Inclusion in Local Newsrooms Across Colorado

Announcing $350,000+ in Grants to Advance Equity and Inclusion in Local Newsrooms Across Colorado

Recipients of our 2023 Advancing Equity in Local News grants will address three overarching priorities identified by community members and journalists of color through the Voices Initiative, led by Colorado News Collaborative with support from Colorado Media Project since 2020.

Frente a Frente: Two Dual-Language Newsrooms Team Up for Statewide Coverage of the 2022 Candidates and Issues

Frente a Frente: Two Dual-Language Newsrooms Team Up for Statewide Coverage of the 2022 Candidates and Issues

"Frente a Frente con los candidatos" — or “Face to face with the candidates” — is a special section published in Spanish and English in print and online by CMP grantees El Comercio de Colorado (an award-winning publication covering the Front Range, including the newly created 8th Congressional District) and Enterate Latino (which serves Western Slope communities from Grand Junction to Parachute).

New Funding Available for Advancing Equity in Local News Projects

New Funding Available for Advancing Equity in Local News Projects

CMP has opened the second round of Advancing Equity in Local News grants for applications. The purpose is to build newsroom and community capacity to address inequities, and to harness a wider array of partners and community assets to create a healthier, more inclusive public square in Colorado, and the application deadline to receive funding for 2023 projects is December 1, 2022. Learn more and apply here!

2022 Statewide Survey of Attitudes Toward State & Local Media

2022 Statewide Survey of Attitudes Toward State & Local Media

Where do Coloradans get their local news — and how? Who do they trust, what are they paying for — and why? What roles do Coloradans think local journalists should be playing in our democracy — and how well do they think they are doing? A new 2022 survey of more than 1,800 Coloradans provides 10 key takeaways that reflect current views of local news outlets and journalists — and trends that are shaping their future.

Announcing ~$1 million in Grants to Strengthen and Advance Equity in Local News

Announcing ~$1 million in Grants to Strengthen and Advance Equity in Local News

These awards also kick off Colorado Media Project’s second three-year commitment as a community-informed, multi-funder coalition dedicated to supporting innovations that make the state’s local media ecosystem more sustainable, collaborative, inclusive, and accountable to the public it serves.

Grant Opportunity: Advancing Equity in Local News

Grant Opportunity: Advancing Equity in Local News

These grants will support projects that address one or more of these three priorities: Support internal diversity, equity and inclusion capacity-building efforts in Colorado newsrooms; strengthen connections and build trust between Colorado newsrooms and the diverse communities they serve; and/or support more diverse and inclusive civic news leadership, entrepreneurship, ownership and narratives. A total of at least $250,000 is expected to be available for 2022; the total grant amount per project for most projects will range between $5,000 and $25,000, with potential for more funding for projects that involve multiple partners and/or deliver more impact

Watch Now: Get the Scoop on the Colorado Community Media Acquisition

Watch Now: Get the Scoop on the Colorado Community Media Acquisition

Mission-driven collaboration and creative financing—including a foundation-backed loan guarantee—helped keep Colorado Community Media in local hands last month. Impact investors and operators shared their “story behind the headlines” at a panel discussion hosted by CMP on May 25.