Afrik Digest

Afrik Digest International Magazine is a cultural and lifestyle journal with its publishing base in Colorado USA. The publication is authentic in the way it retells the story of the members of our community and gives readers a sufficient splash of entertainment, fashion, business, education-inspired stories, and information from within the United States and the continent of Africa. It has continued to own the responsibility to inform the global community on diversity, inclusion, and trends.

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Support From colorado media project

Advancing Equity 2023, 2022; #newsCOneeds 2022

2023 Advancing Equity Award: $15,000 to support Afrik Digest in meeting the news and information needs of Colorado's African immigrant residents, and continued leadership of the Ethnic Media Exchange

2023 Advancing Equity Update: In response to increasing printing costs, Afrik Digest has shifted to a digital-focused model, completing a website update and printing less frequently - and navigating the common challenges of any newsroom making such a transition: reduced certainty about audience engagement with their digital product, and a need to focus on communicating the vision behind the change to an audience used to a different product. Their founder, Vera Idam, has been an active participant in the CPA’s Ethnic Media Ad Network working group, and has reconvened peer media leaders in Aurora via the Ethnic Media Exchange, to identify additional common challenges and opportunities for collective solutions. 

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2022 Advancing Equity Award: $15,000 to support networking events and dialogues between Colorado's mainstream newsroom media and African immigrants with expertise in diverse subject matters, in partnership with the Pan-African Business Association and the Urban Tikkun Centre

2022 Advancing Equity Impact: The Advancing Equity grant helped our organization to address the following specific challenges of our community:

1. Economic empowerment and community integration - This was achieved with our 'New Era of Black Entrepreneurs'. People of all races gathered together to discuss the challenges of blacks people in business and pointed ourselves to the path to the solution.

2. Community visibility, best practices to media content and coverage. This was tackled in our COLORADO ETHNIC MEDIA EXCHANGE-Strengthening connections engagement in March.

We hope to hold more engagements and networking events in 2023, within and outside of our community. The experience of this year is going to follow me into the future. It was amazing.

Asian Avenue Magazine

The mission of Asian Avenue Magazine is to build bridges of awareness, knowledge, and understanding between the diverse Asian Pacific American (APA) communities and the general public through cultural insights, pop culture, news, and information. We are the only English-printed publication in Colorado focused on the APA community and culture.

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SUPPORT FROM COLORADO MEDIA PROJECT

Advancing Equity 2023, 2022; Informed Communities COVID-19 Funding 2021, 2020

2023 Advancing Equity Award: $15,000 to support Asian Avenue Magazine in organizing a database of Asian-American journalists in the Denver area, launching an Asian-American journalist affinity group with learning events, and supporting the Colorado Ethnic Media Exchange.

2023 Advancing Equity Update: Mile High Asian Media has completed their database, and convened a group of 30-40 Asian-American media professionals in Colorado, interested in establishing a formal affiliation group, and is planning to hold a summit gathering of this group in the fall. They have found a number of their members to be new to Colorado, and in search of deeper connections with existing AAPI communities in the state. 

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2022 Advancing Equity Award: $17,000 to support a DEI assessment and training for staff, and to increase translation of articles into other Asian languages.

2022 Advancing Equity Impact: The AELN grant helped address several needs in Colorado’s Asian community: (1) the need for connection and opportunity to share our stories; (2) the need to provide in-language information and resources; and (3) the need to better support Asian journalists in the Denver market. This funding allowed Mile High Asian Media to meet with community members to strengthen relationships and build trust. In this process, we heard the need to re-establish the Asian American Journalists Association chapter in Denver to better support our local journalists.

Alamosa Citizen

AlamosaCitizen.com is a member-supported, nonpartisan daily online newspaper that works to provide information and build civic involvement in the San Luis Valley. We are a vibrant digital voice for our diverse communities that will:

• Report on daily news events and happenings

• Develop issue-oriented enterprise journalism

• Develop community-supported daily podcasts and live-stream broadcasts

• Create live-event programming for a rich mixture of community-oriented content.

SUPPORT FROM COLORADO MEDIA PROJECT

Advancing Equity 2023; #newsCOneeds 2023

2023 Advancing Equity Award: $5,000 to support the Alamosa Citizen with business growth, sustainability support and coaching.

2023 Advancing Equity Update: This year, the Alamosa Citizen has launched a digital ad campaign, alongside their new Outdoor Citizen podcast, securing 15-20 new supporting members, and a slate of new advertisers. They are in the process of transitioning their CMS to Newspack, and have been connected with the CPA’s Digital Transitions Working Group. They have also supported the creation of the Rural Journalism Institute of the San Luis Valley, a new nonprofit supporting three paid high school journalism interns.

Aurora Chapter, NAACP

The mission of the Aurora Chapter of the NAACP is to achieve equity, political rights, and social inclusion by advancing policies and practices that expand human and civil rights, eliminate discrimination, and accelerate the well-being, education, and economic security of Black people and all persons of color.

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Support From colorado media project

Advancing Equity 2023

2023 Advancing Equity Award: $20,000 to support the Aurora Branch of the NAACP's Black Voices Pipeline Project in providing a media literacy and youth journalism program featuring 1-1 mentorship and instruction, publication of student projects in Black-led news organizations, and a youth media showcase to celebrate youth achievements. 

2023 Advancing Equity Update: The Aurora NAACP has completed its second cohort of the Black Voices Pipeline Project, in partnership with the Cherry Creek School District, serving a total of 39 students. This session concluded with a showcase of student work in June, including podcasts, interviews, journalistic writing, poetry, and creative writing.  Phase Two of this project will support 25 Phase One students, who will work with the Black Voices advisory committee mentors to continue to hone and build upon their projects. 

Chalkbeat Colorado

Chalkbeat Colorado is a nonprofit, digital newsroom covering education in Denver and statewide, as part of a nationwide network of mission-aligned newsrooms committed to covering one of America’s most important stories: the effort to improve schools for all children, especially those who have historically lacked access to a quality education.

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SUPPORT FROM COLORADO MEDIA PROJECT

Advancing Equity 2023; #newsCOneeds 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019

2023 Advancing Equity Award: $25,000 to support Chalkbeat's efforts to strengthen its service to Spanish-speaking parents and caregivers, by producing more content and resource guides in Spanish that fill critical information needs, developing new strategies to reach Spanish-speaking audiences online and in person. Potential strategies include community ambassadors, a local reader advisory board, and community partnerships. Chalkbeat will also share lessons learned from Chalkbeat's Source Auditing Tool with other newsrooms in Colorado. 

2023 Advancing Equity Update: Chalkbeat Colorado has launched a Spanish-language education news site and continues to develop an array of evergreen resource guides. The launch of the site is supported by an offline engagement campaign, including community feedback, distribution of PDF versions of articles with QR links to the site at schools and community organizations, a direct mail campaign, and content-sharing partnerships with major Spanish language newspapers in Colorado. Chalkbeat is establishing their team as a trusted resource that community members can direct their education questions to for helpful answers. 

Boulder Reporting Lab

Boulder Reporting Lab is a nonprofit digital newsroom that provides the people who live, work, learn and play in and around Boulder, Colorado, with high-quality, trustworthy, local-first reporting and essential information to make sense of issues and events happening around them, navigate their lives and build community

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SUPPORT FROM COLORADO MEDIA PROJECT

Advancing Equity 2023; #newsCOneeds 2023, 2022

2023 Advancing Equity Award: $5,000 to support the Boulder Reporting Lab in working with peers to develop and offer a paid journalism internship program that provides mentorship and cohort support to BIPOC students. 

2023 Advancing Equity Update: Boulder Reporting Lab hosted a summer intern from CU Boulder's College of Media, Communication and Information. A rising senior who was new to journalism, the student gained invaluable on-the-job skills and newsroom training, working with BRL's professional journalists to report and write multiple stories of varying scope throughout the summer and helping produce its morning newsletter. The intern also participated in the Workforce Pathways/Internships Working Group. 

Colorado Chinese News

Colorado Chinese News is a free weekly newspaper serving Chinese, Asian and other major communities in the Rocky Mountain Region and beyond.

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Support From colorado media project

Advancing Equity 2023, #newsCOneeds 2023

2023 Advancing Equity Award: $5,000 to support Colorado Chinese News in meeting the news and information needs of Colorado's Chinese residents.

2023 Advancing Equity Update: Colorado Chinese News has used their grant to complete urgent security and stability updates to their website. Having lost a significant portion of print revenue since the pandemic, they plan to slowly grow their digital product, and have signed up for sustainability analysis coaching, and engaged with the Ethnic Media Ad Network Working Group.

Colorado Public Radio

Colorado Public Radio (CPR) delivers in-depth, insightful and impartial news and information from around the world, across the nation and throughout Colorado, examining its relevance to our state and connecting it to our community. CPR's programming includes meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in Colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms.

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SUPPORT FROM COLORADO MEDIA PROJECT

Advancing Equity 2023

2023 Advancing Equity Award: $10,000 to support Colorado Public Radio (CPR) in establishing a baseline assessment for source tracking, identifying areas for improvement, implementing strategies to increase source diversity, and sharing lessons learned with other newsrooms in Colorado. 

2023 Advancing Equity Update:  CPR has completed the first set of ongoing data collection for their source tracking project, and is engaging their team in analysis, with a specific focus on engagement and representation of diverse communities in their daily coverage. This will help them understand whether the sources that inform their coverage accurately represent Colorado as a whole - and whether regional coverage represents the communities of specific regions of the state. By the fall, they plan to publish an article sharing the work they’ve done with other newsrooms, and explaining what they’ve learned about how Colorado’s BIPOC communities are receiving and participating in the news they produce. Both CPR and Denver Post have discovered the need for additional trust-building with community members to support a successful source audit, as community members have communicated concerns and uncertainty as to how the personal data collected will be used.

Crestone Eagle Community Media

The Crestone Eagle serves rural Saguache County, including the towns of Crestone, Saguache and Center, Moffat, Villa Grove and La Garita, extending into the northern San Luis Valley. The Crestone Eagle is the primary information resource for the Crestone community and the greater Saguache County region. The Eagle reports on local, county and state government, and on federal actions that affect our region. It provides news analysis; health, emergency and public safety notices; relevant information about schools, education and community service; and notice of committee meetings and actions.

SUPPORT FROM COLORADO MEDIA PROJECT

Advancing Equity 2023; #newsCOneeds 2023, 2022, 2021

2023 Advancing Equity Award: $10,000 to increase coverage of and engagement with underrepresented demographics in the rural San Luis Valley, such as Latinx, indigenous, and youth populations. This is being achieved through partnerships with libraries, community leaders, and local community correspondents in regional communities in 2023. 

2023 Advancing Equity Update: The Crestone Eagle has hired ten new writers as a part of their regional reporting project, covering equity and inclusion, agriculture, water, and economic beats, as well as a Regional News Project Manager, who is coordinating their work and establishing local community partnerships with libraries, community centers, and schools across the San Luis Valley.

CSU Pueblo - The Today

The Today is published as an academic tool by the students and staff of the Department of Mass Communications and is the officially sanctioned newspaper of Colorado State University-Pueblo. Students working on the Today must abide by the professional ethical standards defined by the Society of Professional Journalists and the Associated Press.

The Today newspaper is published several times in the fall and spring semesters. The Today news website is updated daily during the academic year, excluding final exam periods and holidays

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SUPPORT FROM COLORADO MEDIA PROJECT

Advancing Equity 2023, 2022

2023 Advancing Equity Award: $25,000 to provide Year Two support for CSU Pueblo - The Today’s Discovering Diverse Voices community engagement project, as it launches a student-led community reporting desk in collaboration with the library and Pueblo Star Journal, funds and supports a student to lead the Bureau, and engages community stakeholders in the existing DEI advisory committee.

2023 Advancing Equity Update: The Today had established their DEI Board of community liaisons just before the closure of the Pueblo Chieftain’s press was announced. Supported by these stakeholders, their adaptive response has been to shift their student-led product to a long-form feature magazine, paired with an expansion of their multi-media and digital products, and content-sharing partnerships with radio programs like The DROP from RMPBS, to create a converged media model. Equipped with this platform, CSU students are planning to expand their work beyond Pueblo, with projects from Trinidad to Las Animas telling community-focused multi-media stories, and a student journalism mentorship partnership with majority Black, Latinx, and rural school districts in Southern Colorado.

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2022 Advancing Equity Award: $25,000 to support first-year implementation of Community Story Bureaus, including development of a DEI Advisory Board, recruitment of a DEI Student Leader, and development of plan for leveraging University faculty and resources to support students and citizen journalists in covering issues germane to Pueblo residents.

2022 Advancing Equity Impact: One of the most significant impacts our project has has has been on the student, learning, and education side of journalism education. Journalism education has been struggling nationally, and while other programs have been shuddering their programs, we felt a need to serve our community and region by rethinking what journalism is and how we can future proof it. The grant also allowed us to commit resources and create new student roles (we hope them to be longterm and lasting) that otherwise would not have been possible. Having this integrated into the newspaper has changed the perspective of the newspaper and our course offerings. We have embraced the tenets of the grant across several of our courses and student media (radio immediately and TV is Spring 2023). The students are now community-journalism focused with an interest in journalism beyond "traditional" news. One other impact the grant has had is on community relations. The outreach of the student coordinator has begun to open doors and conversations about what we are doing and how we are embracing Pueblo and diversity through programming. There is still much work to be done, but the journalism aspect is our foundation and I have been working with other organizations (such as Rocky Mountain Public Media) to bring more diverse and community-specific programming to radio and video.

Denver Newspaper Guild

The Denver Newspaper Guild Local 37074 is a union of Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska newspaper employees, and employees working for unions and nonprofit organizations in the state. The Guild negotiates contracts, ensures that those contracts are honored and strives to make our workplace the best it can be, just as our counterparts do in more than 100 cities in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. For more than 70 years the Guild has worked for good wages and benefits, fair working conditions, and a voice on the job. Our membership is a diverse group, but has a common bond in the belief that respect for workers’ rights builds stronger jobs and stronger communities.

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SUPPORT FROM COLORADO MEDIA PROJECT

Advancing Equity 2023, 2022

2023 Advancing Equity Award: $10,000 to support ongoing efforts to strengthen the capacity of Denver Post reporters to connect with non-English speaking Coloradans, with an emphasis tracking improvements against quarterly source audits.

2023 Advancing Equity Update: This grant has enabled the Denver Post to provide translation services to reporters working on stories in Spanish-speaking communities, which has helped their team establish stronger relationships with both the community-based translators, and the communities involved in the stories. This has led them to engage Cynthia Lozano, recommended by another CMP grantee, as a Latinx Community Engagement consultant, to advise the Post’s distribution strategy of Latinx/focused stories via community channels, including social media and whatsapp groups. Both CPR and Denver Post have discovered the need for additional trust-building with community members to support a successful source audit, as community members have communicated concerns and uncertainty as to how the personal data collected will be used.

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2022 Advancing Equity Award: $10,000 to support externally-led DEI training for Denver Post journalists and local news leaders.

2022 Advancing Equity Impact: We were able to use the grant to provide fantastic DEI training that was journalism-focused. Our training was attended by our entire newsroom, including management and leadership. We now have a common language to speak as a newsroom when it comes to DEI – a starting point that provided opportunities for further discussions and development but made it so that we are on the same page and gave us a wonderful base education on topics ranging from microaggressions in the workplace to bias in our news coverage.

The training taught us about the "fault lines" that make us unique and also make us subject to bias and, potentially, discrimination. By learning about race, gender, sexual orientation, generation, geography and class as they apply to journalists and the journalism we do, we are better educated when interacting with communities different from our own.

G.E.S. Gazette / Denver North Star

The G.E.S. Gazette is a new bilingual publication for the Globeville, Elyria, and Swansea neighborhoods and RiNo Art District. Each month, the G.E.S. Gazette brings news about local politics, community happenings, arts & culture, and more to residents. The G.E.S. Gazette is supported by its sister paper, the Denver North Star.

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SUPPORT FROM COLORADO MEDIA PROJECT

Advancing Equity 2023, 2022; #newsCOneeds 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019

2023 Advancing Equity Award: $9,140 to expand the G.E.S. Gazette's ability to reach Spanish-speaking residents during the City's spring election cycle, through increased community engagement, a bilingual debate, and increased page counts.

2023 Advancing Equity Update: The majority of the Gazette’s grant project was focused around the Denver spring elections. Their planned bilingual debate for District 9 City Council was the best-attended across the city, and they were asked to host a second debate for the run-off, which was equally successful. Both community members and candidates were enthusiastic in their feedback on the quality of the debates. Building on the success of these events, the Gazette is working to formalize the personal relationships their editor established with community leaders into institutional relationships that will support their bilingual community engagement efforts moving forward. 

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2022 Advancing Equity Award: $6,000 to support the production of North Denver Latinx Stories, written by BIPOC authors from Globeville, Elyria, Swansea and North Denver, via collaboration between the Denver North Star and its newly-established sister paper, the G. E. S. Gazette.

2022 Advancing Equity Impact: This grant helped us ensure more Latino voices in both publications, which is important to ensure we are reflective of our communities. By including more local writers, we were able to include stories on topics we knew were important to the community. We looked at the impact of the pandemic on students, police and the community, and other issues identified by the writer. By providing funds for translation, it helped us create a fully bilingual second paper, even as translation costs exceeded our initial estimates.

Ethiopian Community television - KETO FM

KETO FM is an FM radio station branded as "KETO 93.9 FM". The station is operated by ECTV, Inc broadcasting an international multicultural music format. This station is licensed to Aurora and is broadcast across the Denver metro area. There are over 130 languages spoken among Aurora’s communities. KETO-FM’s target audience are people who speak these languages including immigrants living in Aurora & the metro-Denver area.

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Support From colorado media project

Advancing Equity 2023, 2022; #newsCOneeds 2020, Informed Communities COVID-19 funding

2023 Advancing Equity Award: $10,000 to support KETO FM in meeting the news and information needs of Colorado's Ethiopian and multicultural residents, and continued participation in the Ethnic Media Exchange.

2023 Advancing Equity Update: KETO FM has used its grant funding to support key investments in broadcast equipment and software upgrades, and is planning an array of summer events to promote the station’s new capacities. KETO FM has been working in partnership with the City of Denver as they establish a new sister city in Ethiopia, providing translation services. In the wake of the pandemic, they have found increased demand and competition for translation services. 

KGNU Radio

KGNU is an independent, noncommercial community radio station that has served Denver and Boulder for over 40 years. We seek to stimulate, educate and entertain our audience, to reflect the diversity of the local and world community, and to provide a channel for individuals, groups, issues and music that have been overlooked, suppressed or under-represented by other media. The station seeks to expand the listening audience through the excellence of its programming without compromising the principles stated here.

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Support From colorado media project

Advancing Equity 2023, 2022; #newsCOneeds 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019

2023 Advancing Equity Award: $25,000 to support KGNU's paid journalism internship program that provides real-world training and mentorship to BIPOC students, and to participate in a peer-to-peer cohort that shares lessons from KGNU and other best-in-class models.

2023 Advancing Equity Update: KGNU’s summer internship program is up and running. The first two AELN-funded interns (Jinx and Por) were in the midst of onboarding in early June, joined by an RFA Reporter, two additional interns supported by Workforce Boulder County funding, and several volunteer high-school interns. Over the summer, both interns have been stand-out participants in CPA’s Workforce Pathways/Internships Working Group. By the end of the summer, they’ll be joined by two more AELN-funded interns, Ilvonne and Juanita, for the fall semester. KGNU has been a leader in exploring working with workforce development funding programs from both government agencies and public universities, documenting timing and schedule challenges that make engaging with CU Boulder’s Public Interest Internship Experience program difficult for their newsroom, and the benefits of having payroll for some interns administered through government workforce agencies.

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2022 Advancing Equity Award: $25,000 to provide paid internships to support emerging storytellers and journalists of diverse backgrounds from the various journalism and communications schools across the Colorado Front Range.

2022 Advancing Equity Impact: The paid news internship program has been an absolute game changer, allowing KGNU to attract young diverse talent that would not have been available to the station in a volunteer capacity. The paid interns filled roles from on-air hosting, to reporting, to headlines production in English and in Spanish, fund drive pitching, social media posting, digital editing, voice work, and more. They gained hard and soft skills during their internships providing them with the experience needed to enter the field of media successfully.

Hosting several paid interns at once in the News & Public Affairs Department helped create a core group that served as a magnet to attract others students. This also generated an important safe space where a sense of belonging, collegiality, and collective growth was key to their success and that of the program. Their energy was fantastic and created a fun and friendly atmosphere that other students eagerly volunteered to be a part of.

A greater impact of the internship program is its function in creating a pipeline of diverse talent ready to enter the media ecosystem. KGNU was happy to provide professional references and written letters of recommendation for several of the interns as they applied to other programs, jobs, and internships with one intern taking on a new internship at the Denver Post and another awaiting a final decision from Joe Neguse’s office for an opportunity to intern with the congressman.

KBNO - Que Bueno Radio

Que Bueno1280 is a Spanish-language radio station that has served Colorado for over 50 years, informing and empowering Latino and emerging communities in their native language - Spanish.

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SUPPORT FROM COLORADO MEDIA PROJECT

Advancing Equity 2023

2023 Advancing Equity Award: $5,000 to support Que Bueno Radio in meeting the local news and information needs of Colorado's Spanish-speaking residents.

2023 Advancing Equity Update: KBNO has hired two part-time reporters on a project basis, focused on key community issues. Having active staff members working in the community has generated new channels of community engagement for the station, gathering community voices to share on air. To expand their capacity for community coverage, they have established a partnership with El Comercio de Colorado, whose publisher, Jesus Sanchez-Melean, joins the show regularly to provide a summary of recent headlines, or commentary on key community news. 

KOTO Community Radio

Since 1975, KOTO Radio has provided the Telluride region with high-quality, commercial-free, non-underwritten community radio. Our mission is to inform, educate, and entertain while reflecting the needs, desires, and diversity of our community.

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SUPPORT FROM COLORADO MEDIA PROJECT

Advancing Equity 2023, 2022; #newsCOneeds 2023, 2022

2023 Advancing Equity Award: $10,000 to support KOTO's Spanish-language news program and efforts to engage Latino community members through storytelling and celebration events

2023 Advancing Equity Update: KOTO just hosted their second annual Latinx Heritage Open House event, a great success for connecting the community with upcoming events and recruiting community DJs. Their Spanish-language host Luis Tavares, who was recruited at their first Latinx Open House last year, now runs two successful programs, including the Spanish-language Noticias (a weekly local news headlines roundup), and Off the Record (a monthly public affairs show, for which Louis fields questions from the community in both Spanish and English). This summer, they are exploring additional channels for connecting Spanish-speaking communities with local news and radio programming, including a scan of existing WhatsApp groups for potential partnerships, and potentially conducting a regional audience survey with Corona Insights, following the lead of the Roaring Fork Valley’s El Sol del Valle coalition.

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2022 Advancing Equity Award: $5,000 to support DEI training for staff and stipends for Spanish-language hosts, reporters and partners.

2022 Advancing Equity Impact: The DEI training helped put into place a foundation to make sustainable and meaningful change. The greatest takeaway was, "if you mean it, put it in your budget." We did that for 2022 and with this grant funding, achieved the goal of hiring a reporter to expand our Spanish news programming.

The impacts of this have been twofold. For one, KOTO is more authentically meeting its mission statement, but more importantly, we are engaging all members of our community in KOTO's activities, programming and more. By hiring Luis Tavares, we have at least 15 more people (his family and friends) who want to be involved with KOTO and are encouraging their friends to listen and participate! It's been absolutely wonderful to see the impacts of diversifying our airwaves and making this small step toward meaningful and sustainable change.

KSUT Community Radio

KSUT is a community radio station and NPR affiliate serving Southwest Colorado, including the Ute tribal communities.

The Community Radio Project is a collaborative project led by KSJD News/Community Radio and KSUT Tribal/Four Corners Radio.

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colorado media project support

Advancing Equity in Local News 2023, Community News Network 2022-2024; #newsCOneeds 2022, 2023

Community News Network Award: $135,000 over three years to support "Voices from the Edge of the Colorado Plateau", a collaborative project led by KSJD News/Community Radio and KSUT Tribal/Four Corners Radio, with a new full-time reporter position and community engagement efforts to expand both stations’ existing efforts to amplify Indigenous voices and perspectives in rural Southwestern Colorado.

Community News Network 2022 Update: The Community Radio Project’s shared reporter, Clark Adomaitis, has continued to build strong connections with indigenous community members and leaders in the region, and is exploring opportunities to include Spanish-speaking, immigrant, unhoused, and LGBTQ communities in his equity beat. Both KSUT and KSJD have undergone leadership-level staff turnover, and KSUT is still operating without a News Director, limiting the support available for Clark. 

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2023 Advancing Equity Award: $5,000 to support KSUT and KSJD's collaborative Voices from the Edge of the Colorado Plateau project and staff participation in the design and implementation of sensitivity training for Colorado journalists working with Indigenous communities.

2023 Advancing Equity Update: KSUT and KSJD have provided planning and design support to the Rocky Mountain West News Bureau’s Indigenous Cultural Sensitivity Training project, and helped recruit expert trainers.

KSJD Community Radio

KSJD is a community radio station and NPR affiliate based in Cortez. The station serves the Four Corners Region of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah, including the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and portions of the Navajo Nation.

The Community Radio Project is a collaborative project led by KSJD News/Community Radio and KSUT Tribal/Four Corners Radio.

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Support From colorado media project

Advancing Equity in Local News 2023, Community News Network 2022-2024; #newsCOneeds 2022, 2023

Community News Network Award: $135,000 over three years to support "Voices from the Edge of the Colorado Plateau", a collaborative project led by KSJD News/Community Radio and KSUT Tribal/Four Corners Radio, with a new full-time reporter position and community engagement efforts to expand both stations’ existing efforts to amplify Indigenous voices and perspectives in rural Southwestern Colorado.

Community News Network 2022 Update: The Community Radio Project’s shared reporter, Clark Adomaitis, has continued to build strong connections with indigenous community members and leaders in the region, and is exploring opportunities to include Spanish-speaking, immigrant, unhoused, and LGBTQ communities in his equity beat. Both KSUT and KSJD have undergone leadership-level staff turnover, and KSUT is still operating without a News Director, limiting the support available for Clark. 

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2023 Advancing Equity Award: $5,000 to support KSUT and KSJD's collaborative Voices from the Edge of the Colorado Plateau project and staff participation in the design and implementation of sensitivity training for Colorado journalists working with Indigenous communities.

2023 Advancing Equity Update: KSUT and KSJD have provided planning and design support to the Rocky Mountain West News Bureau’s Indigenous Cultural Sensitivity Training project, and helped recruit expert trainers.

La Voz Colorado

La Voz Colorado is a weekly digital and print newspaper serving the Colorado Latino market in both English and Spanish,. La Voz is the only Hispanic newspaper that distributes statewide and in a bilingual format, with a digital edition of the same hard copy newspaper hosted on their site.

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SUPPORT FROM COLORADO MEDIA PROJECT

Advancing Equity 2023; #newsCOneeds 2023

2023 Advancing Equity Award: $5,000 to support La Voz Colorado in meeting the local news and information needs of Colorado's Spanish-speaking residents.

2023 Advancing Equity Update: La Voz is among the many newsrooms grappling with increasing print costs, and exploring transitions to more digital-focused models. Having redesigned their website after the pandemic, they’ve seen a 50% increase in digital readers across all platforms over the last year. They now face the challenge of integrating this growing audience into a sustainable set of business and revenue strategies, and have signed up for a sustainability analysis from CPA, with the expectation that they will eventually be a digital-first, or digital-only publication.

Mountain West News Bureau

Mountain West News Bureau is a collaboration of public media stations that serves the Western states of Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Our mission is to tell stories about the people, places and issues across the Mountain West. From land and water management to growth in the expanding West to our unique culture and heritage, we'll explore the issues that define us and the challenges we face.

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SUPPORT FROM COLORADO MEDIA PROJECT

Advancing Equity 2023

2023 Advancing Equity Award: $10,000 to strengthen the ability of Colorado newsrooms to report in and with Indigenous communities, via cultural sensitivity trainings developed with Indigenous partners; participating members of the Mountain West News Bureau will also receive story reviews and coaching from a Native reporter.

2023 Advancing Equity Update: The Mountain West News Bureau hosted three virtual trainings, in partnership with the Colorado News Collaborative and their Voices Initiative team. This partnership helped MWNB expand the audience of journalists involved in the trainings beyond their member stations, with over 50 journalists attending the first training. They also plan to continue these trainings at the Rocky Mountain Community Radio conference in Fort Collins, and at the Colorado Press Association’s annual convention in Denver.