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.
CO Journalists Join Forces on COVID-19 Coverage
Five ways to support Colorado's local newsrooms: Essential services in the COVID-19 crisis
Join the Colorado Media Project for two timely journalism collaborations in 2020
CMP Annual Report 2019
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.
Celebrating a new year of connections through the Colorado Media Project
Announcing New Investments and Partners for Colorado's Local News Ecosystem
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.
Newsrooms Join Forces to Rally Public Support on #GivingNewsDay
In a first-ever joint appeal to readers, local newsrooms raised nearly $50,000 in a single day for local news. A $1,500 challenge grant from the Colorado Media Project to each outlet was doubled, tripled, and even quadrupled by local and national donors and foundations — filling newsroom coffers to ensure more and better local journalism in 2019.
Colorado Newsrooms Chart a Collaborative Future
American Journalism Project Leaders Tout Venture Philanthropy for Colorado
The Year-End Giving Challenge: Grant Opportunity
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.
Key Insights from the Colorado Media Project
In just four months, the Colorado Media Project has produced thought-provoking research and insights. Read our executive summary, or take a deep dive into the various components — from our 2,000+ survey of Colorodans, to digital prototypes and business concepts, to a benchmark study of Colordado’s digital and nonprofit outlets — and more.
2018 Colorado Media Survey finds a Sizable Market for Digital, Local News
About 2.4 million digitally-savvy Coloradans are interested in state, local, and neighborhood news, and read more than headlines, a Colorado Media Project survey of 2,000+ residents has found. And about 1 million of these Coloradans are willing to pay for local news - the first time this market has been quantified.
Colorado’s Digital and Nonprofit Media Landscape: 2018 Benchmark Report
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.
Envisioning a Local News Ecosystem: Philanthropy's Role
On August 23, Molly de Aguiar, managing director of the News Integrity Initiative at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and former media program officer for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, offered Colorado's philanthropic leaders some key lessons for strengthening the local media landscape.
How to Fix Local Journalism? Just Listen
How can local journalists better connect with their audiences and serve their communities? This has emerged as a central question for the Colorado Media Project, and the focus of countless hours of interviews with journalists and news consumers throughout the state. Through more than a decade of working on precisely this problem, Molly de Aguiar -- Managing Director of the international News Integrity Initiative and former media grantmaker for New Jersey’s Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation -- has found the solutions to be simple in theory, yet difficult in application.
Colorado Media Project: Ideation Workshop and Community Forum
Colorado Media Project Brings Design Thinking, Agile Development to Stimulate New Media Solutions
By JB Holston, DU’s Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science
In early June, we launched the three-month experiment called the Colorado Media Project out of concern that the drastic reduction in newsgathering capacity at The Denver Post is putting the role of the Fourth Estate as we know it in great peril.
Colorado Media Project Examines Digital Journalism Opportunities
By Melissa Milios Davis, Gates Family Foundation
As Colorado's media landscape has continued to evolve, the Gates Family Foundation has invested in a wide variety of high-quality local news outlets. Local news is a key component of healthy, thriving communities – and its absence is harbinger of diminished communities.