CMP News, Opportunities, Opportunities - Current
Sam Moody
Announcing CMP’s 2025 Newsroom Sustainability ...

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.  

Announcing CMP’s 2025 Newsroom Sustainability Grant
CMP News, Opportunities, Opportunities - Current
Sam Moody
Announcing CMP's 2025 Closing Colorado Coverage ...

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.

Announcing CMP's 2025 Closing Colorado Coverage Gaps Grant Opportunity
CMP News
Sam Moody
Colorado Media Project names Kimberly Spencer, ...

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.

Colorado Media Project names Kimberly Spencer, CFRE, as Director
CMP News, Collaboration, Grantees
Sam Moody
Start the Press! A New Community Printing ...

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.

Start the Press! A New Community Printing Press Opens in Colorado
CMP News, Grantees
Sam Moody
35 Community Newsrooms Join Forces to Raise ...

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!

35 Community Newsrooms Join Forces to Raise Over $1 Million

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The News About Local News: 10 Takeaways from Colorado Journalists

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The News About Local News: 10 Takeaways from Colorado Journalists

In the summer of 2020, two surveys — one conducted by University of Denver (DU) with support from The Colorado Trust and the other one by Colorado Press Association (CPA) and Colorado News Collaborative (COLab) of their members and partners — assessed Colorado journalists’ views of their own news outlets and coverage, and of the state of the broader news ecosystem in Colorado. In their answers, journalists highlight strengths, identify weaknesses, and propose solutions for improving local journalism in Colorado.

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Sen. Michael Bennet and CO Journalists Discuss his 'Future of Local News' bill

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Sen. Michael Bennet and CO Journalists Discuss his 'Future of Local News' bill

Sen. Bennet’s co-sponsored legislation would create a 13-member commission to examine new pathways to public funding for local news that meets information needs and addresses inequities in coverage and representation. Journalists from outlets large and small and offered insights into how they're faring, prodded Bennet about what his bill might accomplish, and urged him to examine certain aspects he might not have considered.

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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!

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Announcing News Voices Colorado: Organizing Communities to Transform Local News

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Announcing News Voices Colorado: Organizing Communities to Transform Local News

Colorado Media Project and Free Press are joining forces to launch News Voices: Colorado — a new initiative that will work alongside communities underserved by local media to help strengthen and re-imagine local news.

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.

A look back – and toward the future! – in supporting local news as a public good in Colorado

A look back – and toward the future! – in supporting local news as a public good in Colorado

We began 2019 at Colorado Media Project with new investments and partners to build community support for local news in Colorado.

We end the year stronger. CMP enjoys more investments from local and national funders. We have many more partners, including our new fiscal sponsor, Rose Community Foundation. And thanks to the hundreds of Coloradans who have participated in CMP projects and events this year, we know that there’s a strong vein of public concern about the future of local news in our state. 

Five reasons journalists should register for Colorado Migrahack

Five reasons journalists should register for Colorado Migrahack

On Sept. 27-28, Colorado Media Project is co-hosting the Colorado Migrahack at University of Denver. What’s a Migrahack? A chance for journalists to gather with web developers, data crunchers, multimedia specialists, immigration community representatives, students, and faculty to create data-based reporting projects. Here are five reasons Colorado journalists should register now:

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Colorado Public Radio-Denverite Marriage: 1+1=3

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Colorado Public Radio-Denverite Marriage: 1+1=3

Today’s news that Denverite, a beloved three-year-old digital news organization, is becoming part of Colorado Public Radio — which has been acting on big plans to expand its news staff — injects a new spirit of optimism into the local news conversation in Colorado. We talked to Kevin Dale, CPR’s executive editor, and Dave Burdick, Denverite’s founder and editor, about what this change means for both organizations, their loyal listeners and readers, and Colorado’s local news ecosystem.

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