RBC I No matter what issue you care about most — public education, the environment, affordable housing, economic opportunities — Colorado news outlets like this one connect you to the news you need to think globally and act locally.
Yet the financial collapse of reliable local news is a statewide and even a national crisis — and too few Coloradans recognize the serious threat to our communities.
Between 2004 and 2019, in small towns and…
This sounds like a great idea! The loss of the Rocky Mountain News was a tragedy for Denver, and for Colorado-based coverage. I believe part of the reason newspaper subscriptions have declined is because the coverage is too homogenized and rarely local. Many Colorado newspapers, at least in the Front Range, are owned by giant Prairie Mountain Media. That means the same article appears in the Denver Post, the Longmont Times Call, the Loveland Reporter-Herald, etc. Here’s to more vibrant, locally-based and staffed, journalism, such as that provided by Rich Lyttle (1924-2004), grandson of James Lyttle, who founded the Meeker Herald in 1885. For a taste of Rich’s warm memories of Meeker, read “Ropin’ the Past,” compiled by the Rio Blanco Herald Times and published by the Rio Blanco Historical Society in 2007. Rich was a graduate of the Journalism School at the University of Colorado, as I was (many decades later).