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Gannett layoffs: Only two of 700 workers let go nationwide from Fort Collins Coloradoan

Judi Terzotis.​Yesterday, Bob Dickey, head of the publishing division for Gannett, announced 700 layoffs nationwide from the firm's newspaper division; see his memo below. And while the Gannett-owned Fort Collins Coloradoan didn't escape unscathed, the pain certainly could have been worse. Pub ... More >>

Denver Post deals with 4 percent budget cut, shrinkage in features and sports sections

Greg Moore.​The newspaper industry remains under economic assault, as shown by Gannett laying off 700 employees yesterday, including two at the Fort Collins Coloradoan, not to mention the recent closure of the Denver Daily News. And the Denver Post isn't immune to these challenges. Editor Greg ... More >>

Gannett furloughs: Fort Collins Coloradoan editor Bob Moore on their impact

Bob Moore.​Furloughs are nothing new for the Fort Collins Coloradoan. Two years ago this month, the paper's parent company, Gannett, imposed company-wide one-week furloughs. Still, Coloradoan editor Bob Moore concedes that the latest furlough order will be tricky to implement -- although he's ... More >>

I-News: Can Laura Frank's journalism project slow the disappearance of investigative reporting?

Laura Frank.​With resources and revenues for print and broadcast news operations continuing to shrink, investigative journalism -- a vital form, but among the field's most expensive -- is becoming more rare with each passing day. But former Rocky Mountain News reporter Laura Frank thinks she's ... More >>

More layoffs at the Fort Collins Coloradoan

​This past January, the Fort Collins Coloradoan, a Gannett publication, instituted a furlough program designed to save money and help preserve jobs. But it didn't prove to be the magic solution. In March, the Coloradoan shut down its press and farmed out its printing at the eventual loss of mo ... More >>

Media coalition takes on CSU over alleged open-meetings-law violations

Joe Blake, as seen in an image from the Fort Collins Coloradoan. Today at 2 p.m., Colorado State University's board of governors will hold a meeting at which it will discuss "the resignation of Mr. Joe Blake from the CSU System Board of Governors," the "appointment of a replacement to fill the vaca ... More >>

Closure of Fort Collins Now marks end of era in great Northern Colorado weekly newspaper war

An image from the last edition of "Fort Collins Now." Today marks the final edition of Fort Collins Now, a weekly newspaper that built up a considerable following dating to 2003, when it was born as the Fort Collins Weekly. Indeed, Northern Colorado as a whole was practically bursting at the seams ... More >>

Paula Woodward opens up -- a little -- about her decision to leave 9News

Paula Woodward. Investigative reporter Paula Woodward, who confirmed this week that she's leaving Channel 9, has learned a few things during her 32 years on the job about how not to provide information -- or at least not any more of it than she'd like. When asked, for example, if the current econom ... More >>

Report: Coloradoan outsourcing printing to Denver Newspaper Agency, eliminating as many as fifty jobs

In the past week or so, reports have circulated that the Fort Collins Coloradoan, a Gannett property, was planning to outsource its printing to the Denver Newspaper Agency, which owns a high-tech press with lots of extra capacity thanks to the closing of the Rocky Mountain News. More recently, a s ... More >>

Update: Coloradoan/Denver Newspaper Agency partnership (and 48 layoffs) confirmed

The basic information contained in a blog published earlier this morning under the headline "Report: Coloradoan Outsourcing Printing to Denver Newspaper Agency, Eliminating as Many as Fifty Jobs" has been confirmed. Moments ago, the Fort Collins Coloradoan issued a press release about its new agre ... More >>

Fort Collins Coloradoan publisher/president Kim Roegner talks about the decision to close the paper's printing facility

As pointed out in the first of today's blogs about the closure of the Fort Collins Coloradoan's printing facilities, Kim Roegner, the paper's publisher and president since last June, didn't return a call on the topic yesterday. Following the issuing of a press release confirming a new partnership ... More >>

Circuit Media's Don Knox sees capitol press room as ethical conflict

Don Knox (pictured), the former Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post business editor who now runs Circuit Media, isn't happy about how the media is handled at Colorado's State Capitol -- and one area of concern for him is the press room, which is provided at no charge to reporters from credentialed ... More >>

Could MediaNews Group furlough program come to the Denver Post?

Even as a Denver Post statement branded a Rocky Mountain News story about troubles at the broadsheet inaccurate, another memo associated with MediaNews Group, the Post's owner, was turning heads on the left coast. The document, first published at Jim Romenesko's Poynter Online address, revealed th ... More >>

Fort Collins Coloradoan editor Bob Moore on Gannett's company-wide furlough program

As noted in a January 20 blog about Channel 9, the Gannett Company, whose portfolio includes 9News and the Fort Collins Coloradoan, among many other media properties nationwide, announced that in an attempt to prevent further layoffs, the vast majority of its 31,000-person workforce would be requi ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, January 23 edition

You've got a lot of reading to do. But not like three chapters of The Grapes of Wrath, due by tomorrow. Fun reading. Today in Backbeat Online: • Meese finishes new album and lands mug in Spin. • Has hip-hop dance crew BreakEFX met their match? • A first look at the Fray's new documentary †... More >>

9News says Obama Inauguration newspapers are collector's items in more ways than one

During the 5 a.m. hour of this morning's 9News info block, anchor Gary Shapiro chatted with guest co-host Cheryl Preheim (pictured) about special-edition newspapers focusing on today's inauguration of Barack Obama. As she held up a copy of USA Today (a publication owned by Gannett, which is also C ... More >>

Denver Post editor Greg Moore knocks down rumors about move to USA Today

Ever since the Rocky Mountain News was put up for sale, John Temple, the tabloid's editor, publisher and president, has been the focus of much attention. Not so Greg Moore, editor of the Denver Post (seen here in a photo from several years back), who's stayed in the background even as reports surf ... More >>

Controversial Editor J. David McSwane Named One of Nation's Top 100 Student Journalists

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Reps from CSU and a Fort Collins daily meet about the future of the university's newspaper.

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Colorado Springs police don't name a crime victim because of his advanced age, even though he shot and killed his attacker.

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CU student journalists feel they were kept in the dark about changes at their publication. Talk about a real-world lesson.

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