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Click the logos below to support one or more of Colorado’s nonprofit or locally-owned newsrooms.
Or support them all with the click of one button, with a donation to the Colorado Media Project’s #newsCOneeds fund at Rose Community Foundation.
This is #newsCOneeds. Between Nov. 28 (a.k.a. #GivingNewsDay) and Dec. 31, 2023, each newsroom below will receive up to $5,000 from Colorado Media Project, in a dollar-for-dollar match aimed at inspiring individuals like you who support long-term sustainability of public-service journalism — which informs communities and strengthens civic engagement statewide.
2023 is the sixth consecutive year that Colorado Media Project is offering the matching grant challenge. Last year, 32 CMP grantees collectively raised more than $850,000 in the month of December, and over the last five years, Colorado newsrooms have raised over $2.3 million. The program is modeled after the national NewsMatch campaign that has helped nonprofit newsrooms across the country raise more than $271 million since 2017.
Between now and November, these newsrooms are participating in the #newsCOneeds Philanthropy Lab - a new addition to the program this year. This series of eleven workshop session, led by national experts from the Local Media Association and Make Philanthropy Work, and hosted by COLab, helps newsrooms hone their fundraising plans, strengthen their connections to their audiences, and engage Coloradans across the state in supporting a healthy local news ecosystem.
Why support local news? Because it’s an essential public good.
Democracy depends on local news.
Research shows that people need relevant, trustworthy, independent local news to stay safe and healthy, to be engaged in their communities, and to create change on issues they care about.
In communities without a reliable source of local news, fewer people vote or run for office, political polarization increases, government is less accountable, and the local economy can suffer.
But there’s a crisis.
Twenty years ago, local advertising sustained local news. Today, Google and Facebook gobble up to 70% of local digital ad revenue.
Nearly one in five Colorado newspapers has closed since 2004. The number of professional reporters covering critical information needs of Coloradans across all media formats declined by nearly 44% between 2010 and 2018 — from 1,010 to just 570 reporters statewide.
Your support matters.
Individuals like you can turn the tide. By subscribing, donating, or becoming a member of your favorite local newsroom/s, you are ensuring that important issues like education, the environment, health, transportation, and economic opportunity continue to get coverage.
Personal health and safety. Civic participation. Progress on every important issue. It’s all at stake — please support local news today.
Alamosa Citizen is a member-supported, nonpartisan daily online newspaper that works to provide information and build civic involvement in the San Luis Valley.
Ark Valley Voice is a completely online nonprofit news source for Chaffee County and the Upper Arkansas Valley in Central Colorado, with a mission to be a voice in pursuit of truth in the Upper Arkansas Valley by providing objective, factual journalism that supports an informed community, civil discourse and government accountability while reflecting the values of the community.
ASPEN JOURNALISM: Nonprofit, online local news organization with statewide coverage on water and the environment. Aspen Journalism produces investigative and in-depth journalism for those with a stake in Aspen, the Roaring Fork River watershed, the Western Slope, the state of Colorado, and the upper Colorado River basin.
Boulder Reporting Lab is a nonprofit digital newsroom that provides the people who live, work, learn and play in and around Boulder, Colorado, with high-quality, trustworthy, local-first reporting and essential information to make sense of issues and events happening around them, navigate their lives and build community
BUCKET LIST COMMUNITY CAFE: Community inspired and community supported journalism site on Facebook, social media and the web that provides information, inspiration and interaction to North Denver.
CHALKBEAT COLORADO: Nonprofit, digital newsroom covering education in Denver and statewide, as part of a nationwide network of mission-aligned newsrooms committed to covering one of America’s most important stories: the effort to improve schools for all children, especially those who have historically lacked access to a quality education.
Colorado Chinese News is a free weekly newspaper serving Chinese, Asian and other major communities in the Rocky Mountain Region and beyond.
COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA: Network of 24 community newspapers and online publications collectively serving more than 330,000 residents in cities and towns throughout Colorado's Front Range with clear, accurate coverage of the issues that matter to residents.
THE COLORADO SUN: Online news outlet provide long-form, in-depth coverage of news from across Colorado.
CRESTONE EAGLE: Nonprofit newsroom whose mission is to produce trustworthy local news in rural Saguache County, to promote community engagement, enhance economic development and connect residents throughout this low-income, isolated region.
THE DENVER NORTH STAR: Community newspaper with an online presence serving Northwest Denver, including the Berkeley, Sunnyside, Highland, West Highland, Regis, Inspiration Point, Chaffee Park, Sloan’s Lake, West Colfax, and Jefferson Park neighborhoods north of Colfax, west of I-25.
Denver Urban Spectrum is a monthly publication that has served the Denver metro area since 1987, spreading the news about people of color, and covering stories not normally addressed in the mainstream media.
FRESH WATER NEWS: Nonpartisan news service demystifying Colorado water issues, affiliated with Water Education Colorado.
The Colorado Springs Indy is a free publication that has served Southern Colorado for over 30 years, covering the full range of news – arts and culture, policy and government, education and health care.
KDNK RADIO: Community radio station and NPR affiliate serving Carbondale and the Roaring Fork Valley.
Valley News is a nonprofit community newsletter and radio station committed to reliable, informative, timely and entertaining programs for everyone living in the Wet Mountain Valley.
KSUT RADIO: Community radio station and NPR affiliate serving Southwest Colorado, including the Ute tribal communities.
KGNU RADIO: Independent community station serving Boulder County and Denver.
KOTO Radio is a community supported public broadcasting organization serving Telluride and Southwest Colorado.
KVNF Community Radio has been serving the western slope of Colorado since 1979 with news programs from National Public Radio (NPR), local news, alternative news sources, and public affairs, and an eclectic mix of musical genres with an emphasis on independent recording artists.
La Voz Colorado is a weekly digital and print newspaper serving the Colorado Latino market in both English and Spanish.
Colorado Newsline is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, independent source of online news, providing fair and accurate reporting on politics, policy and other stories of interest to Colorado readers since 2020.
OURAY COUNTY PLAINDEALER: This award-winning, privately-owned weekly has served San Juan mountain communities since 1877
Pikes Peak Bulletin is a weekly print and digital paper serving Manitou Springs, Old Colorado City and Ute Pass.
Pueblo Star Journal is a nonprofit print and digital newspaper serving the Pueblo community by “digging deeper”, pushing past the superficial and providing our readers with the most accurate, thought-provoking and comprehensive news in the Steel City.
THE SOPRIS SUN: Roaring Fork Valley’s community-supported, nonprofit weekly newspaper. Multilingual in English and Spanish, the newsroom seeks to inform, inspire and build community. We also aim to incubate the craft of journalism for future generations through our high school journalism program
DENVER WESTWORD: The independent voice of news and culture in Denver since 1977, publishes a 24/7 website, westword.com, and also distributes a weekly paper -- both free, now and forever.
Yellow Scene Magazine is the largest printed monthly publication in the Boulder and North Metro regions, providing engaging, journalistically sound, and always creative coverage of local and regional news, politics, arts, culture, entertainment, cuisine, and whatever else we think is relevant to the Community.
And here’s some good news: A collaborative movement building in Colorado.
TV, radio, newspaper, and digital journalists and allies
from across the state are joining forces to better serve you.
Questions? Contact Us.
The 2021 #newsCOneeds campaign is supported by Colorado Media Project, in partnership with the Colorado News Collaborative, News Revenue Hub, and the national NewsMatch campaign.