Informed Communities

Fighting To Be Seen: A Call From Colorado’s AANHPI Communities for Equitable and Just Local News

Fighting To Be Seen: A Call From Colorado’s AANHPI Communities for Equitable and Just Local News

In a new report, 30 journalists and community residents of different Asian, South Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) provide four key recommendations for more accurate representation in local media.

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

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.

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

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).

New Funding Available for Advancing Equity in Local News Projects

New Funding Available for Advancing Equity in Local News Projects

CMP has opened the second round of Advancing Equity in Local News grants for applications. The purpose is to build newsroom and community capacity to address inequities, and to harness a wider array of partners and community assets to create a healthier, more inclusive public square in Colorado, and the application deadline to receive funding for 2023 projects is December 1, 2022. Learn more and apply here!

Announcing ~$1 million in Grants to Strengthen and Advance Equity in Local News

Announcing ~$1 million in Grants to Strengthen and Advance Equity in Local News

These awards also kick off Colorado Media Project’s second three-year commitment as a community-informed, multi-funder coalition dedicated to supporting innovations that make the state’s local media ecosystem more sustainable, collaborative, inclusive, and accountable to the public it serves.

Grant Opportunity: Multi-Year Support for Community Newsrooms that Reach Underserved Audiences

Grant Opportunity: Multi-Year Support for Community Newsrooms that Reach Underserved Audiences

Small, community-based news outlets currently serving a core audience that, because of language, race or ethnicity, and/or geography, is not adequately served by other news outlets in the state are invited to apply for a new, three-year grant that provides support for growth and enhanced community service. The total grant amount per news organization may range between $30,000 and $60,000 per year for three years, with funding starting in January 2022.

Grant Opportunity: Advancing Equity in Local News

Grant Opportunity: Advancing Equity in Local News

These grants will support projects that address one or more of these three priorities: Support internal diversity, equity and inclusion capacity-building efforts in Colorado newsrooms; strengthen connections and build trust between Colorado newsrooms and the diverse communities they serve; and/or support more diverse and inclusive civic news leadership, entrepreneurship, ownership and narratives. A total of at least $250,000 is expected to be available for 2022; the total grant amount per project for most projects will range between $5,000 and $25,000, with potential for more funding for projects that involve multiple partners and/or deliver more impact

Meet the 10 CMP Grantees Who Will Address COVID Vaccine Hesitancy Among Impacted Communities

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.


Grant Opportunity: Informing Communities to Ensure Equitable Access to the COVID-19 Vaccine

Grant Opportunity: Informing Communities to Ensure Equitable Access to the COVID-19 Vaccine

Colorado newsrooms that have existing, trusted relationships with communities of color and other marginalized groups disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 can apply by April 11 for grants of between $5,000 and $10,000 to support coverage to address questions on the vaccine.

Reframing Resistance Coverage Can Build Trust in Local News

Reframing Resistance Coverage Can Build Trust in Local News

News Voices: Colorado is listening to residents around the state to understand their questions about how local news is covering the protests, how that coverage is specifically impacting Black residents — and what can be done to repair trust.

Ten Trusted Community News Sources Awarded COVID-19 Informed Communities Grants

Ten Trusted Community News Sources Awarded COVID-19 Informed Communities Grants

Over the next six months, grant recipients will collaborate with dozens of independent local news outlets already participating in the Colorado News Collaborative’s COVID Coverage Network, to increase access to accurate, localized, and actionable information on the continuously evolving COVID-19 public health and economic crises.

CMP Offers Grants to Reach Diverse Populations with COVID-19 News and Resources

CMP Offers Grants to Reach Diverse Populations with COVID-19 News and Resources

Colorado’s ethnic and non-English-language media outlets and trusted community organizations are invited to apply for grants of up to $5,000 each, to help ensure that the state’s diverse and underrepresented communities are receiving accurate, localized, and actionable information on the continuously evolving COVID-19 public health and economic crises.