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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Workforce Pathways for Local Journalism in Colorado

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Workforce Pathways for Local Journalism in Colorado

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.

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Announcing More Than $360,000 in Grants to Advance Equity and Inclusion in Local Colorado News

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Announcing More Than $360,000 in Grants to Advance Equity and Inclusion in Local Colorado News

Today Colorado Media Project is announcing 27 new grants totaling $368,300 that will support Colorado newsrooms, journalists, and media entrepreneurs in launching new projects and strengthening existing efforts to build a more inclusive local news ecosystem that reflects and serves Colorado’s diverse communities.


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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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New Funding Available for Advancing Equity in Local News Projects

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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.

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

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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.


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Reframing Resistance Coverage Can Build Trust in Local News

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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.

Join the conversation: