From politics to priests to pandemic nursing home deaths to business coverage of evictions and investments, The Colorado Sun’s small group of journalists delivered outsized impact in the 2021 Top of the Rockies regional contest covering outlets in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and Utah. The Sun, which entered the “extra-large newsroom” division despite its lean […]
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Colorado Sun adds photojournalist to its expanding team
The Colorado Sun continues to grow. Olivia Sun has been named as the first staff photojournalist to join our growing team, thanks to a partnership with Report for America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities. Sun (no, she wasn’t selected because of her last […]
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We are in this aloneness together: Reflections on one year of Coloradans responding to the call
This time last year, Colorado had its first COVID cases. And soon after, The Colorado Sun responded by starting this “Write On” column. Now at about 170 pieces and counting, it has offered a chance for Coloradans to share their bewilderment, epiphanies, stories, and heartache of the times. Although we were uniformly shocked by the […]
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The behind-the-scenes story of being Gov. Jared Polis during Colorado’s coronavirus crisis
A little more than a month into Colorado’s battle with coronavirus, Gov. Jared Polis and his team reached the helpless realization that there was no end in sight. At that point, more than 8,000 people had tested positive for the disease and over 350 had died, including scores living in senior-care centers. The stay-at-home order […]
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A confession: I’m tracking my pandemic days. You can count on it.
Pandemic Day 312 I count. Asked how I’m dealing with the pandemic, I rarely admit this truth. That my coping mechanism for things I can’t control is to count. To track. To schedule. Because it sounds a little weird, don’t you think? I remember 30 years ago, crawling into the passenger seat to drive to […]
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Author Todd Fahnestock wrote “The Undying Man” for one really compelling reason: his fans
Todd Fahnestock is a writer of fantasy for all ages and winner of the New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age Award. “Tower of the Four,” “Threadweavers” and “The Whisper Prince Trilogy” are three of his bestselling epic fantasy series. He was a finalist in the Colorado Authors League Writing Awards for the […]
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Hutchins’ year in review: Here’s what happened in Colorado’s media world in 2020
Dumpster fire, clown show, a glitch in the simulation, whatever you want to call it, 2020 was a kind of something else we should have seen from the start. In Colorado, think of how it began: Around this time last year, residents and law enforcement were reporting troubling nightly sightings of mysterious lights in the […]
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From our editor: Like so many, The Colorado Sun had its ups and downs in 2020. Here’s where we are today.
Colorado’s locally owned, independent news source doubled its membership, won a pile of awards and told stories that needed to be told.
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Somehow, by the grace of God, I weathered the most recent coronavirus storm
PANDEMIC STORM Someone sent me a playlist of dance songs this morning. By eight o’clock, with two cups of tea in me, I was dancing around my kitchen and living room, feeling relaxed and free of cares. My dogs watched. “Who is this woman?” It was different from that night last week when I hit […]
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The 25 most-read Colorado Sun stories of 2020
What a year it has been, from the coronavirus crisis to a contentious election to national social unrest. Colorado Sun reporters and editors worked hard to keep up with the deluge, and our readers were right there along with us. Below is our list of the 25 most-read Sun stories this year. Articles about coronavirus […]