After Wahl died while covering World Cup soccer, an outpouring of tributes highlighted his many wonderful characteristics, none more so than his kindness
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The Colorado Sun thanks you for an amazing four years
The Sun launched in September 2018 as a public benefit corporation dedicated to producing quality, nonpartisan news coverage
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Nicolais: Strong local reporters become more critical in a post-truth political world
With just over three months until the 2022 general election, fabrications, half-truths, omissions and utter lies will dominate political discussion from now until November. It is the same song, just at a different tempo. We live in a post-truth political world. Misleading characterizations have always been a part of the political world. More than two […]
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Silverman: Kyle Clark deserves our thanks for standing up to bullies
Kyle Clark is on the frontlines battling disinformation, detractors and Donald Trump’s big election lies. The 9News’ anchor is Colorado’s most watched and trusted broadcaster. Clark is sharp, experienced and can separate truth from nonsense. He’s got superior verbal and writing skills that provide hard-hitting commentaries and prolific tweets to his 155,000 followers. Clark is […]
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Colorado-based New York Times reporter wins his second Pulitzer Prize
By Deepti Hajela, The Associated Press NEW YORK — A Colorado-based reporter for The New York Times, who used to work for The Gazette newspaper in Colorado Springs, won his second Pulitzer Prize on Monday. He was part of a team that won a Pulitzer in the international reporting category. Separately, The Washington Post won […]
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Applications now open for The Colorado Sun’s 2022 Rise and Shine Journalism Workshop
The Colorado Sun has opened applications for its 2022 Rise and Shine Journalism Workshop for up to 25 middle and high school students across Colorado. The program will be held July 18-22 over Zoom. The Sun introduced the summer camp last year, exposing students to the fundamental skills of journalism — including reporting, writing, filing […]
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Colorado Sun journalists recognized with dozens of awards in Top of the Rockies journalism contest
The Colorado Sun won more than two dozen awards in the four-state Top of the Rockies journalism contest this weekend, receiving more recognition than any other Colorado news organization in its category. The Sun, competing in the “extra-large newsroom” category despite being less than half the size of many of its peers, earned 28 awards […]
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Opinion: The culture war is the easy, less important, education story
In 2013, nearly a decade after I graduated high school, I returned to the classroom as a reporter for Chalkbeat, the nonprofit news organization that covers public education. The world I returned to looked nothing like the one I left. And yet, one thing remained the same: the culture wars. As long as there have […]
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Hutchins’ year in review: Here’s what happened in Colorado’s media world in 2021
If 2020 was a bruiser for the local media business with layoffs, furloughs and deep cuts from COVID-19 thinning our news scene, 2021 ushered in a kind of “new normal.” The local media industry tentatively bounced back as the year produced a bumper crop of digital news startups from Boulder and Denver, Broomfield and Franktown, […]
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Opinion: All Coloradans deserve access to trustworthy sources of local news
As the hours tick down before Tuesday’s general election, the news headlines about the state of our democracy could not be more dispiriting: As of Oct. 29, just 16% of Colorado voters had cast ballots Yes, Colorado’s school board races are becoming more politicized. Election disinformation has Colorado clerks trying new tactics to reassure voters […]