Better News for All Coloradans
At the Colorado News Collaborative, our vision is an informed and engaged civil society. Our mission is to be a local media resource hub and ideas lab that serves all Coloradans by strengthening high-quality local journalism, supporting civic engagement, and ensuring public accountability. We’re a nonprofit that helps news outlets all across Colorado produce more fa
ct-based news that makes a difference, and we help communities build more trust with those news outlets. That makes for better news — that is, higher quality news that serves all Coloradans. Our work is a public service because studies show that when communities don’t have quality news, bad things happen:
-Fewer people vote
-Fewer run for public office
-Local government becomes more expensive
-Political polarization gets worse
COLab helps more than 175 news outlets across Colorado (see if your favorite is on the list!) report important stories they couldn’t do alone. We help communities find better ways to build trust with their news outlets. And we help strengthen media business models so those news outlets can serve those communities long into the future. Our work has captured national attention, but it’s our local support — from more than 1,000 of you so far! — that lets us know we’re on the right track.
