Impact and Ideas
Sam Bernal, La Tricolor Aspen (photo credit: Aspen Public Radio)
An Advancing Equity in Local News grant from CMP is helping COLab bring together an unprecedented collaboration in the Roaring Fork Valley: Four newsrooms, one investigative news organization, and three radio stations will find ways to better serve Spanish-speaking readers and listeners from Aspen to Rifle to Eagle.
Op-ed from Allision Alexander (Aspen Community Foundation)
Voices from the edge of the co plateau
News leaders from KSJD (Four Corners Community Radio) and KSUT (Tribal Radio) share their vision for a new collaborative project to amplify diverse voices in Southwestern Colorado, supported by a three-year grant from CMP.
Community Story Bureaus in pueblo
Students and faculty at CSU-Pueblo will use a CMP grant to connect with communities and fill local news gaps: “We’re looking at making this a kind of cultural rewriting of how we pursue media and media storytelling,” said Regan Foster, Adjunct Professor.
not just one foundation, not just one newsroom
NiemanLab shares the origin story of the Colorado Media Project, and why our state’s collective response to the decline in local news so unique among ecosystems nationwide.
more on cmp and philanthropy in local media
Colorado Media Project turns toward what comes next (Democracy Fund)
Journalism beyond competition (Columbia Journalism Review)
Local foundations need solid local journalism if they hope to advance their missions (Chronicle of Philanthropy)
Building networks for sustainable, responsive, and diverse local journalism (Democracy Fund)
Why a new chapter for 24 community newspapers matters for Colorado - and the nation (CMP on Medium)
ON THE FUTURE OF LOCAL CIVIC NEWS
Predictions for Journalism 2024 (NiemanLab)
The Rise of a Pro-Democracy Media (Washington Post)
Journalism is a public good. Let the public make it (Columbia Journalism Review)