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
A sign from a rally against the ownership of the
Denver Post, Alden Global Capital, in May 2018. Former
Post journalists created
The Sun has acquired two dozen suburban Denver papers. David Zalubowski/AP
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 it had acquired and would operate a family-owned chain of 24 suburban newspapers around Denver. 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
In Denver, Civic-Minded ‘Colorado Sun’ Acquires Suburban Newspaper Chain
By David Folkenflik
May 3, 2021
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 it had acquired and would operate a family-owned chain of 24 suburban newspapers around Denver.
“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
The Colorado Sun, tells NPR
A sign from a rally against the ownership of the Denver Post, Alden Global Capital, in May 2018. Former Post journalists created the Colorado Sun that year; now the Sun has acquired two dozen suburban Denver papers.
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 it had acquired and would operate a family-owned chain of 24 suburban newspapers around Denver.
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