Many elements went into John Hickenlooper’s winning campaign for U.S. Senate this year, but an important aspect was his political advertising on Facebook. Not only did Hickenlooper outspend incumbent Sen. Cory Gardner on Facebook ads in the months leading up to Election Day by a ratio of $5 to $1, but he also deployed sophisticated […]
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Littwin: Hello, Colorado Sun readers, goodbye Indy
You say hello, and I say goodbye — Lennon-McCartney, but mostly Paul and not enough John. I’ve got news, and so I’ll just spit it out. This is, sadly, my last column for The Colorado Independent. But it’s also, happily, my first column for The Colorado Sun. My column will appear in The Sun every […]
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Vincent Carroll: A local media dependent on taxes will be too tame at crunch time
Sometimes a poorly conceived response to a problem is worse than no response at all. Witness the Colorado Media Project’s proposed solution to the sad decline of local news gathering in this state. The media project, a group of concerned citizens, civic leaders and former journalists, wants government to step up and funnel tax dollars into […]
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Opinion: Colorado journalism needs public support
There was a time, not so long ago, when the two of us were foes in a “newspaper war.” We thought that the winner would be in a position to thrive as the sole surviving major newspaper in the Denver metropolitan area. Were we ever wrong. John’s Rocky Mountain News died 10 years ago. Greg’s […]