More than two dozen Colorado newsrooms have launched an unprecedented collaboration to better cover the 2024 elections.
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.
Reimagining the Public Square: Coloradans Deserve Better
Against the headwinds of divisive national rhetoric, increasing polarization of local communities, digital overwhelm and social isolation — we believe it’s time for pragmatic, solutions-focused Coloradans to reclaim the public square from political pundits and conflict entrepreneurs. As the new documentary “Join or Die” puts it, building “community connections could hold the answers to our democracy’s present crisis.”
Meet the 28 Colorado Community Newsrooms Poised to Collaboratively Raise $1 Million for Local News This Holiday Season
Meet the 13 Colorado Newsrooms Selected for Hearken's Engaged Elections Fellowship
Colorado Indigenous Communities Call for 'Reach, Representation and Respect' from Local Media
Community Events Fund: Support for Newsrooms Building Public Engagement
Fighting To Be Seen: A Call From Colorado’s AANHPI Communities for Equitable and Just Local News
Announcing $350,000+ in Grants to Advance Equity and Inclusion in Local Newsrooms Across Colorado
The Time is Right Now: Black Voices Call for Action
Meet the 10 CMP Grantees Who Will Address COVID Vaccine Hesitancy Among Impacted Communities
These trusted Colorado news sources will receive a total of $85,000 in grants to support local journalism and community listening and reporting projects that address critical information needs, questions, and concerns about uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine among communities of color and other marginalized groups.
The Past as Prologue for Latinx Communities in Colorado
Lineages of Harm, Futures of Repair
Mapping trustworthy local news in Colorado's 64 counties
Reframing Resistance Coverage Can Build Trust in Local News
Seeking Visionary Community Leaders to Help Guide the Colorado News Collaborative
This fall, we’re working with partners to help build a diverse, community-minded governing board and working committees to help guide the Colorado News Collaborative, or COLab. Innovative thinkers — particularly those from outside of the journalism field, outside of the Front Range, and from historically marginalized communities — let us know you’re interested!
Announcing News Voices Colorado: Organizing Communities to Transform Local News
Colorado Media Project and Free Press are joining forces to launch News Voices: Colorado — a new initiative that will work alongside communities underserved by local media to help strengthen and re-imagine local news.
