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Saving 24 Colorado Community Newspapers: The Inside Story

The rise of online media has been devastating for community newspapers print publications that often serve as the only homegrown information source in small towns across the country, including many in Colorado. By one recent estimate, over 1,800 newspapers have closed across the United States since 2004, including about 1,700 weeklies. The 24 newspapers and two advertising-based shoppers in the Colorado Community Media chain could have easily wound up suffering the same fate. For co-owners Jerry and Ann Healey, keeping the operation going has been a work-intensive labor of love for nearly a decade, but they ve reached a stage in their lives when they want more free time. The odds of finding a buyer for CCM seemed small, and without one, operations such as the

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New Deal: Colorado-national consortium buys community papers

By JAMES ANDERSON Created: May 03, 2021 02:51 PM DENVER (AP) - The Colorado Sun, a Denver-based online news operation created three years ago by journalists who left The Denver Post, has partnered with a national nonprofit to buy 24 community newspapers in a unique venture that seeks to preserve local journalism. The arrangement adds to a growing number of newspapers receiving boosts from nonprofits that are devoted to protecting journalism in the United States where private equity or hedge funds buy up and consolidate financially struggling legacy newspapers. The Sun and the National Trust for Local News announced the private purchase Monday of the family-owned Colorado Community Media, which operates the papers - some of which are more than a century old - and the websites and two shoppers. Colorado Community Media, with 330,000 readers, will be supported by the new Colorado News Conservancy, a public benefit corporation created by the Sun

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In Denver, Civic-Minded Colorado Sun Acquires Suburban Newspaper Chain

Denver Post, Alden Global Capital, in May 2018. Former Post journalists created The Sun has acquired two dozen suburban Denver papers. David Zalubowski / AP Updated at 4:35 p.m. ET A group of disheartened former Denver Post editors and reporters launched an upstart news site 2 1/2 years ago, called it The Colorado Sun, and hoped it could rescue local news coverage from the dictates of hedge fund owners and Wall Street investors. On Monday morning, The Sun announced had acquired and would operate a family-owned chain of 24 suburban newspapers around Denver in partnership with a new foundation focused on local journalism. These are the folks who are covering school boards, city councils, county commissions that no one else is covering, Larry Ryckman, the editor-in-chief of

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New Deal: Colorado-national consortium buys community papers

New Deal: Colorado-national consortium buys community papers
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New Deal: Colorado-national consortium buys community papers

New Deal: Colorado-national consortium buys community papers
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