The dramatic transformation from journalists on the job into witnesses for the police in a broad-daylight fatal shooting at a downtown Denver protest took only moments. But that’s what happened last weekend when employees for two local news outlets with the largest online audiences in Colorado found themselves at the center of a deadly news […]
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County and state public health agencies in Colorado have posted coronavirus data, public health orders and testing locations on their websites. But many of those documents, forms and graphics are inaccessible for people with vision impairments. Curtis Chong, a blind person from Aurora who has worked with the National Federation of the Blind on computer […]
COVID-19 has reached into Hispanic communities in every corner of Colorado, afflicting some at rates more than double their share of the population, a new analysis by the Colorado News Collaborative found. The Colorado News Collaborative (COLab) obtained race and ethnicity data through late September from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) […]
The national powerful nonprofit public-interest journalism outlet ProPublica is expanding — perhaps even into our state’s borders. From an announcement this week: ProPublica announced on Thursday that it is dramatically scaling up its commitment to local investigative journalism with the launch of three regional reporting hubs. The nonprofit news organization will establish two new units covering the South […]
This story was updated on Oct. 13, 2020. Colorado’s 64 county clerks started mailing ballots Friday for the Nov. 3 election. With national concern about the integrity of mail-in ballots, Colorado is getting national attention for its system. Colorado began statewide vote by mail in 2013, although some counties adopted mail ballots before that. We […]
Dear reader, Wow. We asked for your thoughts last week on the test the Trump administration has posed to journalists seeking to be “objective” while adhering to the obligation to tell the truth. Where, I asked, do you, readers and watchers and listeners of news, draw a line between truth-telling and a perceived agenda in […]
How can a major local TV station adequately correct misleading election information it published in an environment where a credible news outlet’s mistakes can become weaponized for partisan gain? Denver’s CBS4 is finding out just how difficult that is. The still-unraveling storyline stems from the station publishing a report the news outlet later determined wasn’t fit for print and erased from […]
Dear reader, From our angst department, I’m writing to fill you in about an ethical question I and journalists across the country are wrestling with this election cycle – one that pits our duty not to take sides against our responsibility to speak the truth. As I write this, I am reminded of the first […]
Reports of slower mail delivery times nationally and across Colorado since mid-summer are causing concern as more voters than ever plan to vote by mail in the Nov. 3 election, to avoid coronavirus exposure. But an unscientific experiment by the Colorado News Collaborative over the past month found little to be concerned about in the […]
