Colorado newsrooms ‘are holding the line’ | Vince Bzdek – Denver Gazette

Colorado newsrooms ‘are holding the line’ | Vince Bzdek  Denver Gazette

Nearly nine out of 10 news outlets maintained or increased local news coverage from 2022 to 2025, and two out of three said they were economically stable or expanding. There’s a memorable scene in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” when peasants are loading bodies onto a cart after the plague has passed through town. Trouble is, one of the people a worker is trying to throw on the cart is not quite dead yet. “I’m not dead!” “I’m not dead!” the man cries out. “Yes he is,” insists the worker carrying him over his shoulder. “Well, he will be soon. He’s very ill.” “I’m feeling better!” the man says. “I feel happy!

I feel happy!” After reading a new report on the state of Colorado journalism, and visiting with intrepid news people from all around the state at the Colorado Press Association annual conference last weekend, I’m thinking newspapers aren’t quite dead yet, either. Their demise certainly has been an oft-repeated storyline in recent years. But now I’m starting to think the reports of journalism’s death are greatly exaggerated. Especially in Colorado. “Remarkably, Colorado newsrooms are holding the line,” Laura Frank, executive director of COLab, announces in a new survey of Colorado newsrooms. Nearly nine out of 10 outlets maintained or actually increased the percentage of their coverage devoted