Colorado Media Project is pleased to announce the first of two new grant opportunities for local Colorado newsrooms in 2025. The 2025 Newsroom Sustainability Grant supports projects that strengthen newsroom financial, staffing, and operational sustainability in Colorado. Applications are open now, and the deadline to apply for this grant is 5pm Mountain Time, Monday, June 30, 2025.
Colorado Media Project is pleased to announce one of two new grant opportunities for local Colorado newsrooms in 2025. The 2025 Closing Community Coverage Gaps Grant provides flexible support to newsrooms serving Colorado’s BIPOC, non-English speaking, and rural communities. Applications are open now, and the deadline to apply for this grant is 5pm Mountain Time, Monday, June 30, 2025. CMP will be hosting an information session about this grant opportunity via Zoom on Friday, June 13, 2025, from 11:00-11:45 a.m.
Colorado Media Project (CMP) has named Kimberly Spencer as Director to lead efforts to strengthen the local news ecosystem in Colorado. A seasoned fundraiser and nonprofit leader, Spencer has helped newsrooms build financial sustainability through fundraising, executive leadership and relationship building.
The Trust Press, a commercial printing facility launched by the National Trust for Local News to
address the skyrocketing costs of producing local news in Colorado, is now operational. The new
press is printing the publications of Colorado Community Media, also owned by the National
Trust, and will begin printing dozens of other local and ethnic newspapers in the new year.
Today, Giving Newsday, is the start of the 2024 #newsCOneeds Year-End Giving Campaign! By the end of December, 35 community newsrooms are engaged in a campaign to increase public awareness and grassroots support from individuals for the vital public service that journalism provides to our communities. They collectively aim to raise at least one million dollars to support local news - and they need your help!
Colorado Media Project is pleased to announce the first of two new grant opportunities for local Colorado newsrooms in 2025. The 2025 Newsroom Sustainability Grant supports projects that strengthen newsroom financial, staffing, and operational sustainability in Colorado. Applications are open now, and the deadline to apply for this grant is 5pm Mountain Time, Monday, June 30, 2025.
The Gates Family Foundation, Democracy Fund, and the University of Denver’s Project X-ITE announce new, significant commitments the Colorado Media Project. Our goal is to raise $2.5 million over three years to foster trustworthy, sustainable local journalism serving all Coloradans, and we’re more than halfway there.
The Colorado Media Project — in partnership with the Institute for Nonprofit News — set out to learn more about the state’s local news landscape, surveying 14 independent news outlets in Colorado to gain information about their mission, coverage topics, audience, staff size, business model, and more.
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