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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.

How #newsCOneeds helped Colorado newsrooms raise $700K+ in Dec. 2021

How #newsCOneeds helped Colorado newsrooms raise $700K+ in Dec. 2021

The 2022 #newsCOneeds cohort of participating news organizations included small, locally-owned rural and urban newspapers, local public radio stations, statewide digital outlets, nonprofit newsrooms, a public benefit corporation, a big city alt-weekly, a one-person startup, and more. In the end, the effort raised more than $700,000 for newsrooms across Colorado.


How #newsCOneeds helped Colorado newsrooms raise $578K+ in Dec. 2020

How #newsCOneeds helped Colorado newsrooms raise $578K+ in Dec. 2020

Participating news organizations included small, locally-owned rural and urban newspapers, local public radio stations, statewide digital outlets, nonprofit newsrooms, a public benefit corporation, a big city alt-weekly, a one-person startup, and more. In the end, the effort raised more than $578,000 for newsrooms across Colorado.


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.

Newsrooms Join Forces to Rally Public Support on #GivingNewsDay

Newsrooms Join Forces to Rally Public Support on #GivingNewsDay

In a first-ever joint appeal to readers, local newsrooms raised nearly $50,000 in a single day for local news. A $1,500 challenge grant from the Colorado Media Project to each outlet was doubled, tripled, and even quadrupled by local and national donors and foundations — filling newsroom coffers to ensure more and better local journalism in 2019.