Tag: Journalism
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“60 Minutes”: A study in journalistic bias
A tautology is a needless repetition of an idea using different wording. For example: “Sooner or later the inevitable is bound to happen.” In this case, Bari Weiss is under fire from the stable of leftist so-called journalists at CBS’s “60 Minutes” program. The rebellion is over a story (in fact, a hit piece), recently…
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Panel on challenges to journalism shows the question is more important than the answer | Vince Bzdek
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A recent panel discussion on the many challenges journalism faces at the moment demonstrated the value of a good question. We five journalists on the panel weren’t able to answer all the questions posed to…
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The Flagler News, a small-town newspaper, closes after 113 years
There’s a cold wind blowing 2024 across into neverland, and Tom Bredehoft feels like a tumbleweed. Several months after the lifelong newsman saved one Eastern Colorado newspaper, another weekly for which he’s toiled as chief editor, reporter, photographer and janitor unexpectedly buckled under. There was not enough money to keep The Flagler News going. But…
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How we exposed Denver’s homeless industrial complex | Vince Bzdek
In an era when information, misinformation, disinformation, AI-created information, and down-right lies all gets tossed together in the same Mixmaster known as the internet, we journalists believe it’s important for us to occasionally show our work. To let you know who our sources were, what documents we obtained, what our reporting method looked like, and…
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Tiny Ouray County newspaper roars, stands ground
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A small newspaper in Ouray County is not backing down from reporting the news of an alleged rape involving the family of the police chief, even though it appears someone tried to stop them. Thursday, almost all of the Ouray County Plaindealer hard-copy newspapers that were for sale in newspaper racks throughout Ouray and Ridgway…
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Gazette newspapers honored by Colorado Press Association
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Gazette family of newspapers — The Gazette in Colorado Springs, Denver Gazette and Colorado Politics — earned 46 awards, including 24 first-place honors, in the Colorado Press Association’s Better News Media contest on Saturday. Hundreds of entries for the 2022 contest were judged by the New…
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CBS Channel 4 journalist Suzanne McCarroll remembered as a mom and great reporter
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Sadness descended on Denver’s CBS Channel 4 newsroom this week when colleagues learned of former longtime reporter Suzanne McCarroll’s death. The 35-year KCNC veteran died Wednesday after a long illness. “It just kind of shook me up because we had just texted Sept. 19th,” News…
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National Trust for Local News, Colorado Sun buy 24 Colorado newspapers
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Twenty-four Colorado newspapers will remain under local ownership after it was announced Monday the National Trust for Local News and digital newspaper The Colorado Sun purchased Colorado Community Media. The exact terms of the deal…