CMP News, Collaboration, Grantees
Sam Moody
Nine Colorado Newsrooms Receive Funding from ...

Denver, October 16 - Press Forward Colorado today announced that nine local media outlets have been awarded $900,000 in grants as part of the Press Forward national foundation’s first open call for funding. 


These nine Colorado newsrooms - Alamosa Citizen, Asian Avenue Magazine, Aurora Sentinel Community Media, El Comercio de Colorado, KVNF Mountain Grown Community Radio, Ouray County Plaindealer, San Miguel Basin Forum, Sopris Sun, and World Journal - will each receive $50,000 per year for the next two years to support their work serving their communities, and closing coverage gaps for communities of color, rural communities, and linguistically diverse communities.


Nine Colorado Newsrooms Receive Funding from Press Forward to Close Local Coverage Gaps
CMP News
Sam Moody
Call for Applicants: Colorado Media Project ...

In this pivotal time for the future of local civic news, CMP seeks candidates and nominations for its next Director. The Director will play a crucial role in advancing CMP’s mission to support sustainable, equitable, and community-centered journalism in Colorado. Reporting to CMP’s Executive Committee, and employed by CMP’s fiscal sponsor, the Rose Community Foundation, this leadership position requires a dynamic and strategic individual with a passion for public service and accessible civic information, exceptional relationship-building skills, and deep expertise in fundraising, strategic communications, coalition building, and organizational management.

Call for Applicants: Colorado Media Project Director
CMP News, Opportunities - Current, Community Engagement
Sam Moody
2024 #newsCOneeds Year-End Giving Challenge

Locally owned and non-profit newsrooms serving communities across Colorado are invited to apply to join the 2024 #newsCOneeds Year-End Giving Challenge, and apply for matching grant funding from CMP.

2024 #newsCOneeds Year-End Giving Challenge
Opportunities - Current, CMP News
Sam Moody
Spotlight: Colorado Fund - Call for Proposals

The Spotlight: Colorado Fund aims to empower local Colorado-based news organizations to produce high-quality, in-depth, nonpartisan investigative reporting focused on a single topic. The guiding purpose of this fund (and the projects it supports) is to raise public awareness about critical issues facing our state and to catalyze positive change in our institutions and communities.


Spotlight: Colorado Fund - Call for Proposals
Grantees, Community Engagement
Melissa Davis
Above the Noise: Local Newsrooms Set the Table ...

Across Colorado from Greeley to Pueblo -- through partnerships with print, digital, radio, and television stations -- Rocky Mountain Public Media's Above the Noise initiative aims to set the table for civil conversations that build trust among neighbors and empower communities to cope with the rise of artificial intelligence, deep fakes and widespread misinformation.  

Above the Noise: Local Newsrooms Set the Table for Trust-Building

COLab

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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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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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Seeking Visionary Community Leaders to Help Guide the Colorado News Collaborative

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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!

How uncovering a small Colorado town’s hushed secret led to redemption and reconciliation in Rangely

How uncovering a small Colorado town’s hushed secret led to redemption and reconciliation in Rangely

One cold December evening, a year after a police officer killed a mentally-ill man in the northwest Colorado town of Rangely, the dead man’s wife sat next to the officer and forgave him -- wishing him peace of mind and absolving him of the guilt that had plagued him since the shooting.

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