HeyJaredInside the News in Colorado
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Colorado involved in media conglomeration settlement with Paramount, opts out of provision (opens the original)
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This week, a group of state attorneys general who had sued to stop a major media takeover by Paramount of Warner Bros. Discovery dropped their antitrust lawsuit and announced a settlement. The group of 12 state prosecutors includes Colorado Democrat Phil Weiser who opted out of a key provision in the settlement involving a controversial editorial oversight board for the merged company. The settlement clears the way for a massive amount of media
💰 What Colorado newsrooms are paying journalists in 2026 (opens the original)
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Each fall, this newsletter reports on the pay landscape in Colorado journalism.We’re luckier than most on this front because of a 2021 state transparency law that requires Colorado employers to publish salary ranges with their job postings.“If we’re talking about a journalist in Colorado who could be employed by a Colorado publication or a national publication, the pay has to be posted for a job in Colorado,” said Scott Moss, who was the director of Colorado’s Division of Labor Standards at the
New Colorado newspaper owner feels like ‘stepping into a role of community service’ (opens the original)
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During the Colorado Press Association’s recent annual convention held at a hotel near Denver, one attendee stood out for his rakish style. Tucker Farris, with a large bushy beard, a ruffled scarf, sunglasses, and a safari hat, had a Hunter S. Thompson gonzo lapel pin glinting from a stylish jacket. As one Roaring Fork Valley journalist who knows him remarked, the 32-year-old new owner of the Crystal Valley Echo newspaper is “authentically himself.”For the past six months, Farris, a fifth-generat
New journalism film with Colorado ties ‘The First’ about free speech to air on PBS this fall (opens the original)
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About 10 seconds into a yet-to-air documentary about the First Amendment, Colorado’s connections become clear. Bazi Kanani, a host and reporter for Colorado Public Radio, is the second person to speak in the new film titled “The First: Free Speech at the Crossroads” about the First Amendment. Kanani then carries viewers through the rest of the 1.5-hour documentary as one of the two hosts. The other is Tom Costello, a senior correspondent for NBC News who grew up in Colorado and worked at KUSA 9N
Lawmakers to enforce local news priority in state ad spending by holding agencies accountable (opens the original)
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