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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Today we published our CMP Annual Report for 2019. Our work over the past year reaffirmed just how many community members care deeply about the future of local news in Colorado. We also learned that newsrooms across the state ranging from legacy newspapers to digital startups are eager to build capacity, engage with community, and increase collaboration. Join us to reflect on these and other important lessons, and help us apply them forward into further learning and growth in 2020.
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.
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.
Data, multimedia, freedom of information requests, expert sources, developers, students and journalists.
With a focus on immigration in Colorado, they all came together at the end of September for Migrahack at the University of Denver (DU).
“Parked” a collaborative project that developed organically thanks to the initiative of the Colorado Sun, represents a great beginning to a new spirit of cooperation among Colorado media outlets.
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