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May 3, 2012
Denver Post layoffs estimate: 16 copy editors, nearly tenth of staff
Update: At this point, neither representatives of the Denver Post nor the folks at the Denver Newspaper Guild seem eager to talk in detail about a plan to lay off two-thirds of the copy editors at the paper of record. However, we've gotten more information about the likely fallout. In the end, as ma ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2012
Reader: New History Colorado Center is world-class, and Michael Paglia is not
The criticism of Michael Paglia's review of the History Colorado Center, and his subsequent suggestions for "Ten shows the History Colorado Center should have opened with," are getting pretty colorful. Says Guest: I don't understand why you don't just open your own musuem! I'm quite irritated that ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2012
Reader: Denver Post changes are like Exxon watering down gas
Our item sharing a memo from editor Greg Moore about impending cuts in the Denver Post copy-editing department, which sources tell us could result in two-thirds of the staff being laid off, prompted plenty of discussion about the state of journalism today. Here's a comment from a reader who thinks s ... More >>
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April 19, 2012
Tearing Down the Wall
Our item sharing a memo from editor Greg Moore about impending cuts in the Denver Post copy-editing department, which sources tell us could result in two-thirds of the staff being laid off, prompted plenty of discussion about the state of journalism today. Here's a comment from a reader who thinks s ... More >>
Blogs
February 24, 2012
John Hickenlooper: If he can become governor, there's no limit to Colorado's future
Governor John Hickenlooper met with newspaper reps in town for the Colorado Press Association's annual convention at the Governor's Mansion yesterday. There, he talked about Iowa, Christo, the coolness of Lieutenant Governor Joe Garcia...and how Westword was a very good neighbor during the Wynkoop B ... More >>
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February 16, 2012
Susan Greene: Funding investigative journalism today as challenging as doing it
In late 2010, Susan Greene resigned from the Denver Post after learning her column had been canceled. She later wrote a Huffington Post piece that compared working for the paper to Stockholm syndrome. And since then? She's spent much of her time putting together "The Gray Box," a moving project made ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2012
Journalism Plus: There is a future for journalism at CU-Boulder after all
I'm three weeks an intern for Westword, and with each day, I'm made more aware of the strengths (and the pitfalls) of my journalism education at CU-Boulder. Nothing scares me more than joining my older brother in his misery caused by the mania surrounding this economic downturn. "Good luck finding a ... More >>
Blogs
October 20, 2011
Ke$ha rules, journalism drools
Britt ChesterEat it, journalism!There are two distinct periods in the average American's life: high school and not-high school. For me, the farther I get from those formative ninth-through-twelfth-grade years -- 1994 to 1998 -- the cooler they seem to have been. Today, when I look back at say ... More >>
Blogs
October 6, 2011
Rick Perry: CO lawyer on criminal investigation of reporter who wrote N*ggerhead story
On October 1, the Washington Post published a story by reporter Stephanie McCrummen in which she noted that early in his political career, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry hosted lawmakers at a family hunting camp labeled near its entrance as "Niggerhead." Castle Rock attorney Mike Robinson found ... More >>
Culture
September 1, 2011
For 9/11 play The Guys, too much time has passed
On October 1, the Washington Post published a story by reporter Stephanie McCrummen in which she noted that early in his political career, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry hosted lawmakers at a family hunting camp labeled near its entrance as "Niggerhead." Castle Rock attorney Mike Robinson found ... More >>
News
August 25, 2011
Westword wins big in 2011 with several journalism prizes
On October 1, the Washington Post published a story by reporter Stephanie McCrummen in which she noted that early in his political career, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry hosted lawmakers at a family hunting camp labeled near its entrance as "Niggerhead." Castle Rock attorney Mike Robinson found ... More >>
Blogs
August 5, 2011
Wendy Kale, veteran Boulder music writer, R.I.P. -- and also say a prayer for Colorado Daily
Wendy Kale.This week, the local journalism community is mourning the loss of Wendy Kale, longtime music writer for the Colorado Daily, who died at age 58 of still-undetermined causes -- although her death is not seen as suspicious. Her passing ends an era for the Boulder music community -- an ... More >>
Blogs
August 4, 2011
Scottie Ewing on Finca Bellavista: "Right On"
There's no denying that what Crested Butte couple Erica and Mateo Hogan is doing in Costa Rica is pretty cool: Spurred by their love of the rain forest, they bought up some 300 acres of it and created a fully sustainable Swiss Family Robinson-style tree-house community complete with zip-lines ... More >>
Blogs
June 24, 2011
Gil Spencer, R.I.P.: Neil Westergaard remembers legendary Denver Post editor
Gil Spencer in a 1992 Denver Post photo.Gil Spencer, former editor of the Denver Post, who died early this morning at the age of 85, was a rarity: a veteran journalist who was beloved by one and all -- and especially by the people with whom he once worked. That's certainly true of Neil Weste ... More >>
Blogs
June 21, 2011
Reader: Michael Hancock prostitution story example of journalism at its worst
Hancock.A Comment of the Day from last week condemning the media for overcovering the Michael Hancock prostitution story spurred a strong opinion from another reader distressed by the press' approach to the sensational (and unproven) allegations. Here's what he had to say.
Blogs
June 20, 2011
Christopher Braider, French & Italian prof, on job overseeing CU journalism faculty
Braider.CU's journalism school officially closes June 30 in favor of what's being called a Journalism-Plus program. And now we know who'll be overseeing the transition: Christopher Braider, an Italian and French professor. Braider, who's been appointed to a two-year term as director of the jo ... More >>
News
June 16, 2011
Westword editor Patricia Calhoun wins a top SPJ award for her story on Kristen Stillman
Braider.CU's journalism school officially closes June 30 in favor of what's being called a Journalism-Plus program. And now we know who'll be overseeing the transition: Christopher Braider, an Italian and French professor. Braider, who's been appointed to a two-year term as director of the jo ... More >>
Blogs
June 16, 2011
Michael Hancock has shortest honeymoon ever thanks to ex-Denver Players king Scottie Ewing
When I picked up the Denver Post yesterday, with the big headline "Nothing incriminating in Hancock cell records" across the top of the front page, I was quickly transported back to the first edition of the Cornell Daily Sun I helped edit, when the night editor insisted the headline on a sto ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2011
David Harsanyi thinks Glenn Beck's The Blaze will "do better" in future than Denver Post
David Harsanyi.David Harsanyi was hired as a Denver Post columnist in 2004, eventually moving to the editorial page -- and the bookshelves via his well-read 2007 effort Nanny State. He also contributed to Glenn Beck's Arguing With Idiots -- and he's now on Beck's payroll as a major player for ... More >>
News
April 28, 2011
Letters: Readers thank pot critic William Breathes
David Harsanyi.David Harsanyi was hired as a Denver Post columnist in 2004, eventually moving to the editorial page -- and the bookshelves via his well-read 2007 effort Nanny State. He also contributed to Glenn Beck's Arguing With Idiots -- and he's now on Beck's payroll as a major player for ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2011
Arianna Huffington at MapQuest party on "frivolous" blogger suit, "useful" Drudge design
Arianna Huffington.Internet years are like dog years, which makes fifteen-year-old MapQuest more like 105. But this old dog can learn directions home if you believe Arianna Huffington, now a player in the old-money empire of AOL, which owns the company headquartered in LoDo. She talked about ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2011
CU journalism school to close June 30: Read critics' take on why it's a bad idea
Bruce Benson.Last August, CU journalism school dean Paul Voakes insisted that reports about the impending death of the J-school were hysterical and premature. Not anymore. Yesterday, at the urging of CU prez Bruce Benson, regents voted for a shutdown by a 5-4 vote -- one closer than anticipat ... More >>
Blogs
March 3, 2011
CU Journalism School, good riddance
The University of Colorado at Boulder decided to shut down its journalism school and is looking to reboot the program, with President Bruce Benson is seeking feedback from media-industry pros. It's a peculiar question in the Westword office, since many past and present writers never went to ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2011
The Daily: Five ways it could fail
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp unveiled The Future of Journalism this morning in an elaborate, hour long event at the Guggenheim in New York. The product: The first tablet-native newspaper, a 14 cents per day, iPad-only publication called The Daily. There was some amount of fervor surrounding it ... More >>
Blogs
October 5, 2010
Medical marijuana advertising revenue greening local papers (like this one), says New York Times
William Breathes.I overheard someone call our fine publication Weedword not too long ago, referencing the eight-plus pages of medical marijuana ads in the back of our print edition. Funny, and also true. As Jeremy Peters points out in today's New York Times, that greening of advertisements ha ... More >>
Blogs
September 17, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
September 8, 2010
With The FILTH and the FURY!! game you can pretend to be a music journalist
Back in the 1980s, music journalism was a field people were falling over themselves to get into. This was hot on the heels of the Lester Bangs era, when DIY and punk movements started taking over and bands were coming out of every small town in America. It also marked a surge in music 'zine p ... More >>
Blogs
August 27, 2010
CU journalism school possible-closure headlines went from premature to inaccurate, dean says
Paul Voakes.Nothing gets journalists more hysterical than perceived attacks on journalism. It's no surprise, then, that an announcement the University of Colorado at Boulder was considering discontinuing its journalism school in favor of a new media entity prompted big play for panicky pieces ... More >>
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July 22, 2010
KID TALK
Paul Voakes.Nothing gets journalists more hysterical than perceived attacks on journalism. It's no surprise, then, that an announcement the University of Colorado at Boulder was considering discontinuing its journalism school in favor of a new media entity prompted big play for panicky pieces ... More >>
Blogs
June 16, 2010
KUNC reporter Grace Hood on winning the station's first national Murrow Award
KUNC reporter Grace HoodThere are loads of media honors, but in broadcast journalism, the national Edward R. Murrow Awards stand above the rest. That's why it's a big deal that KUNC, the northern Colorado public radio station, just nabbed its first national Murrow for "Two Men, Two Women and ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2010
PETA's ten-worst publicity stunts -- until the chicken
The City of Denver will decide today whether PETA can install a 250-pound, bloody and butchered chicken sculpture -- dubbed "McCruelty," but really looking like a worse-for-the-wear Foghorn Leghorn -- on the 16th Street Mall. This isn't PETA's first stunt, of course. Last year, Jason Sheeh ... More >>
Blogs
May 20, 2010
Medical marijuana reporting "press vape" prize at Caregivers' Cup: Top that, Pulitzers!
The most practical prize ever.Today, there's a dwindling number of journalists (or at least journalists getting paid for practicing their profession). But there are still plenty of journalism prizes -- although none quite like the one to be awarded to Westword at Sunday's Caregivers' Cup: a " ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2010
Denver Post editor asks: Is there boring stuff in our paper?
Photo by J. KnightDenver Post editor Greg Moore at the February 2009 goodbye-to-the-Rocky press conference.Newspapers across the country are trying to figure out how to make the most of their shrinking resources, and the Denver Post is no exception, as is made clear by a memo sent to staffers ... More >>
Blogs
March 26, 2010
Miles Moffeit, reporter who helped break Tim Masters case, to leave Denver Post
Miles Moffeit is heading back to Texas.For the past eight years, Miles Moffeit has been one of the most consistently outstanding reporters for the Denver Post. "Trashing the Truth," a series co-written with now-columnist Susan Greene that documents the failure of law enforcement agencies in r ... More >>
News
March 18, 2010
With all the pot advertising, Westword should change its name to Weedword
Miles Moffeit is heading back to Texas.For the past eight years, Miles Moffeit has been one of the most consistently outstanding reporters for the Denver Post. "Trashing the Truth," a series co-written with now-columnist Susan Greene that documents the failure of law enforcement agencies in r ... More >>
Blogs
November 5, 2009
Phil Anschutz attacked on website he owns
An illustration of Phil Anschutz from a NowPublic screed.Citizen journalism has a lot of attributes -- but its mainstreaming can be messy. Case in point: A spelling-challenged attack on Denver gazillionaire Phil Anschutz published earlier today on NowPublic, a Canadian citizen-journalism site ... More >>
Blogs
November 4, 2009
An early look at Colorado Public News, the latest online news experiment
Photo by Joe Mahoney"You said it wasn't going to hurt!": A photo from Colorado Public News' beta site.After the closure of the Rocky Mountain News earlier this year, groups featuring former staffers launched not one but two high-profile online news projects, neither of which revolutionized th ... More >>
Blogs
November 3, 2009
HDNet's Greg Dobbs talks about Life in the Wrong Lane
"A lot of people consider the practice of journalism with a lot of scorn, and sometimes it's deserved," says veteran newsman Greg Dobbs, who'll talk about his new book, Life in the Wrong Lane: Why Journalists Go in When Everyone Else Wants Out, at 6 p.m. tonight at the Denver Press Club. "But ... More >>
News
May 25, 2006
Market Watch
Truth is stranger than fiction -- and even reality TV.
News
February 16, 2006
Tube Time
A columnist's latest dirty secret? He watches TV to get his news.
News
September 23, 2004
The Message
Shattered Glass
News
April 12, 2001
Lights, Camera...No Comment
Two years after the shootings, 60 Minutes brings Columbine back to prime time -- and local officials get camera-shy.

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