The Colorado Sun won 10 first-place awards in the Colorado Press Association journalism contest, including the prestigious Public Service award. The Sun took first place in Investigative, Education, Business, Agriculture and Health, among other categories in the contest’s large Class 7 division. The Sun’s nine first-places in the Editorial Awards portion of the contest were […]
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Colorado Sun wins 28 awards, including 14 first-place, in Top of the Rockies competition
The Colorado Sun hauled away 28 awards in the four-state Top of the Rockies journalism contest over the weekend, including 14 first-place wins and the prestigious Public Service Award. We’re so proud of this recognition from our peers in the Society of Professional Journalists, but we are even more grateful to our Sun community of […]
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From the Editor: Beyond the what. The Colorado Sun explains why.
We are in historic times. With the stock market in turmoil, supermarket shelves being stripped and schools closing, anxiety is growing at least as fast as the coronavirus is spreading. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how best to describe The Sun and how we approach the news. I came up with this: “Beyond […]
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Colorado Sun, other media outlets seek affidavit for stepmom accused of murdering Gannon Stauch
A group of Colorado news organizations has asked a judge to unseal an affidavit that could explain why police arrested a woman for investigation of first-degree murder in the disappearance of her stepson. Attorney Steve Zansberg, president of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition, filed the motion Monday in El Paso County District Court. Letecia Stauch was […]
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From the Editor: It’s a wonderful life, or at least a well-informed life, that enjoys local journalism. Help us keep it alive.
In the classic Christmas movie “It’s a Wonderful Life,” George Bailey is given the great and terrible gift of seeing what the world would be like if he had never been born. His friendly town of Bedford Falls becomes the cold, hard Pottersville, where unrestrained greed and power create a dystopian nightmare of vice and […]
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From our editor: We’re stronger together, Colorado. The Colorado Sun offers thanks on its first birthday
The Colorado Sun is officially 1 year old today, and we have you and so many others to thank. So much has happened and changed in the past year, but some things have remained the same: The Sun is still 100% Colorado-owned and -operated by its 10 founding journalists. We took a chance by launching […]
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From the Editor: Every week, some readers aren’t happy with us. Here’s why we’re OK with that.
Someone is going to be mad at The Colorado Sun today, and we have ourselves to blame. They’re likely to get fired up about one or more of our opinion columns, so I want to offer some thoughts about why we bother sharing such opinions when we know that they’re guaranteed to rub someone the […]
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Letter from the Editor: One year later, The Colorado Sun has accomplished much. But we still need your help.
One year ago, a group of us stood before cameras and fellow journalists at Denver’s Civic Center park and announced that we had become something that none of us had intended: entrepreneurs and business owners. We were announcing the creation of The Colorado Sun. We created The Sun because we felt we had to, that […]
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Here are all of The Colorado Sun’s award-winning stories from 2018
The Colorado Sun hasn’t been around for very long — we began publishing on Sept. 10, 2018 — but already we’ve won several big regional journalism awards for our stories on everything from health and political reporting to the outdoors and trash. Here’s a look at the work we did that has been honored: 2019 […]
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A note from our editor: The Rocky is long gone, but The Colorado Sun and others are rising to fill the gaps
“We hope Coloradans will remember this newspaper fondly from generation to generation, a reminder of Denver’s history — the ambitions, foibles and virtues of its settlers and those who followed. We are confident that you will build on their dreams and find new ways to tell your story.” — From the final edition of The […]