Opportunities - Current, Opportunities, CMP News
Sam Moody
Press Forward's National Pooled Fund Announces ...

PLocal news outlets that fill coverage gaps with original reporting — and have a budget under $1 million — will be eligible to apply for national Press Forward funding.

Press Forward's National Pooled Fund Announces First Open Call for Funding
CMP Research, Ideas, Research
Melissa Davis
Workforce Pathways for Local Journalism in ...

New white paper by Corey Hutchins of Colorado College shares findings from a 2023 CMP-supported working group — and explores solutions. In addition to sharing ideas surfaced by newsroom and higher education leaders in the working group, the report captures takeaways from newsroom-hosted student internships supported by CMP through its Advancing Equity in Local News program in 2023, and from a cohort-based program that COLab provided for students placed in Colorado newsrooms in summer 2023. It is published to contribute to ecosystem learning and continuous improvement of Colorado’s journalism workforce pipeline.

Workforce Pathways for Local Journalism in Colorado
CMP News, Collaboration, Community Engagement
Melissa Davis
Colorado Newsrooms Join Forces to Strengthen ...

More than two dozen Colorado newsrooms have launched an unprecedented collaboration to better cover the 2024 elections.

Colorado Newsrooms Join Forces to Strengthen Elections Coverage in 2024
CMP News
Melissa Davis
Press Forward Colorado: CMP Takes Lead Role as ...

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 initiative.

Press Forward Colorado: CMP Takes Lead Role as Local Home for Nationwide Initiative
CMP News, Community Engagement, Opportunities - Current, Opportunities
Sam Moody
Call for Partners: Engaging Communities in an ...

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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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).

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Why a new chapter for 24 community newspapers matters for Colorado — and the nation

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Why a new chapter for 24 community newspapers matters for Colorado — and the nation

As hedge funds and billionaires clash swords over control of big-city newsrooms nationwide, a quiet coalition of heavyweight collaborators has conspired to save a less prestigious—but just as vital—type of local news.

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