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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In this challenging time, journalists in Colorado and around the country are playing a crucial role to keep our communities informed. In support of their work, we share resources and advice for covering the COVID-19 pandemic, adjusting to remote work, and other important topics — and announce a Colorado-specific journalists’ network to track and combat the spread of viral misinformation online throughout 2020.
The Colorado Media Project (CMP) is offering matching gifts of up to $5,000 per Colorado newsroom to help inspire more individuals to support homegrown, local Colorado news. In partnership with the national NewsMatch campaign, the CMP also will offer technical support and marketing toolkits for participating Colorado newsrooms.
Colorado journalists, web developers and technical specialists outside the Denver metro area are eligible to apply for travel grants up to $500 to attend Colorado Migrahack September 27-28 at the University of Denver, thanks to support from PEN America.
This week the Colorado Media Project hosted a webinar to present more information and answer questions for newsrooms about our open call for Colorado newsrooms to participate in a joint marketing and membership program. Read key questions and answers from our discussion, and see our slide deck. Remember: applications are due on Wednesday, June 17, at 11:59 p,m. Questions? Email us at info@coloradomediaproject.com.
Is your public service news outlet planning to do a year-end giving campaign? The Colorado Media Project is offering matching gifts of up to $1,500 per organization for new memberships or individual donations made on “Giving News Day” — a new, nationwide campaign to increase philanthropic giving to media outlets on November 27, 2018 (a.k.a. Giving Tuesday). LOIs due November 1.
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