Susan Greene

Free Press media reform panel answers the question: "Is journalism dead?"

Journalism is dead: That seems to be the familiar refrain among the public these days. But last night, a panel of practitioners and free-press advocates at a preview event for the National Conference on Media Reform taking place in Denver next month, begged to differ. In their view, journalism is a ... More >>

Rape victim: Testifying about attack not as bad as Democrats voting against me

Denver blog posts have the welcome mat ready. Colorado Peak Politics reports about a rape victim who was dismayed by the response she received from Dems opposed to allowing concealed carry on college campuses. The Colorado Independent's Susan Greene reveals a federal probe into whether the City of ... More >>

Five biggest fakers in recent Colorado history

Former stolen valor arrestee Rick Strandlof has been many people in his life...two of whom were completely fabricated. But he has never been formally charged with profiting from his personalities -- nor is he the only person to have spun tall tales to change his life. Click through for stories from ... More >>

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 >>

Arianna Huffington's sale of Huffington Post to AOL not expected to impact HuffPo Denver

Huffington.​The sale of the Huffington Post to AOL this week has been much debated in media circles. Yet most of these conversations haven't addressed what, if anything, the move portends for the four regional HuffPo branches, including the one in Denver. The word we get: status quo.

Susan Greene compares working at Denver Post to Stockholm syndrome in HuffPo debut

Susan Greene.​Update below: Susan Greene resigned from the Denver Post late last year after being told her column would be canceled -- and while she was clearly saddened by the circumstances of her departure, she had only positive things to say about colleagues and didn't criticize the paper a ... More >>

Mike Littwin, Denver Post columnist, on his move to the op-ed pages

Mike Littwin.​There have been plenty of columnist-related changes at the Denver Post of late, including the resignation of Susan Greene and a plan to relocate the writings of Mike Littwin, Tina Griego and Bill Johnson. This last move was completed yesterday by way of Littwin's debut on the op ... More >>

Mike Littwin, Denver Post columnist, may be on the move following Susan Greene resignation

Mike Littwin.​Last week, we told you about the resignation of the Denver Post's Susan Greene after she was told her column would be canceled. Turns out other column-oriented changes are in the offing, including a possible move for star scribe Mike Littwin from his prime page two location to t ... More >>

Susan Greene resigns from Denver Post after being told her column would be canceled

Susan Greene.​"Trashing the Truth," a 2007 series by Miles Moffeit and Susan Greene about DNA evidence, remains the finest piece of journalism by the Denver Post over the past decade -- a controversial but deserved Pulitzer Prize finalist. Three years later, however, neither writer works for t ... More >>

David Bueno murder conviction vacated: Carol Chambers's office hid evidence, says David Lane

David Bueno.​"Arapahoe County DA Charges Death-Penalty Fees to State," a February 2008 feature by Alan Prendergast, spotlighted the prosecution of David Bueno, one of two cons charged with killing a fellow prisoner in 2004. District Attorney Carol Chambers sought the death penalty against Buen ... More >>

Medical marijuana: Will Kevin Grimsinger's false stories hurt MMJ campaign for PTSD?

Kevin Grimsinger.​Last week, Sensible Colorado's Brian Vicente decried the health department's rejection of a petition to add post traumatic stress order to conditions that can be treated by medical marijuana. Along the way, he specifically cited Kevin Grimsinger, a veteran who'd become the po ... More >>

Luxury lockdown at the new jail Bed and Breakfast: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario

The Denver Sheriff Department is inviting city employees and select guests (who can pass a criminal background check) to Downtown's new Van Cise-Simonet Detention Facility for a one-night-only slumber party... ​ Check-In: Division Chiefs Elias Diggins and Marie Kielar, along with Deputy Sherif ... More >>

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 >>

Dan Caplis haters: Sorry to break it to you, but he just saved somebody's life

Dan Caplis was in the right place -- with the right machine.​Want proof that KHOW afternoon-drive talk-show host Dan Caplis is a divisive fellow? In the midst of a column about how Caplis' quick thinking, and his way with an automated external defibrillator (AED), saved a life on Thanksgiving, ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Mile High City going to pot

​Yesterday, Westword's quest for a medical-marijuana critic made the New York Times, after already being featured in the Wall Street Journal, MSN and CNBC. My e-mail box overflowed and my phone rang off the hook. It's funny how the national media has jumped all over this. "Is this the most at ... More >>

The lessons not learned from Columbine

A Flickr photo As a resident of the metro area near Columbine High School, I found the tenth anniversary coverage of the shootings to be particularly unpleasant -- although not nearly as bad as it was, I'm sure, for relatives or friends of those who were killed, injured or directly traumatized by E ... More >>

Q&A with Denver Post editor Greg Moore

Photo by J. KnightDenver Post editor Greg Moore at the February 26 press conference that announced the closure of the Rocky Mountain News. During the period of time between the December announcement that the Rocky Mountain News had been put up for sale and the February press conference revealing th ... More >>

After the Rocky taps out, the Post acts like it won by a knockout

Talk about fast service: We apologize for an error before it even appears

Bill Porter. Online journalism may bring in considerably less revenue than old-fashioned print -- but it makes fixing screw-ups a helluva lot easier. Example: In the Message column in the physical Westword, which will arrive at distribution points throughout metro Denver and beyond later today, I w ... More >>

Is it Peter Boyles, Peter Boils or Boil Peters?

Peter Boyles. The name game took a loopy twist after Colorado Media Matters published an item last Wednesday attacking KHOW talk-show host Peter Boyles for referring to Congresswoman Diana DeGette as "Vagina DeGette" and "Vagina DeJet," for reasons that are too dopey to explain -- although CMM did ... More >>

The Susan Greene-Peter Boyles vagina dialogue

Susan Greene. Shortly after this morning's blog "Peter Boyles, Peter Boils or Boil Peters?" went live, Denver Post columnist Susan Greene joined the aforementioned Boyles on his KHOW radio show to debate the subject of the item: Boyles' reference to Congresswoman Diana DeGette as "Vagina DeGette" a ... More >>

Five Rocky stars who could be going up

Rolling Stone contributor and "Block the Vote" co-author Greg Palast fires back at the Denver Post's Susan Greene

"Block the Vote" co-author and Rolling Stone contributor Greg Palast on Colorado's troubled voting system

Two Denver Post reporters respond to criticism by "Block the Vote" co-author and Rolling Stone contributor Greg Palast

Denver Post Columnist David Harsanyi's Syndication Deal

The Exclusivity of Channel 7's Sacha Millstone Report

Denver Post Comes Up Short in Pulitzer Prize Contest

The Denver Post and Taking Credit for a Prisoner's Release

Deconstructing the DNA of a Denver Post Pulitzer Finalist

Critics raise questions regarding an impressive Post series shortly after it's named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Documents Outline DA Mitch Morrissey’s Complaints Against Denver Post Pulitzer Candidate

Denver Post Also a Winner in Masters Case

The Denver Post's Non-ideological Columnists Make a Curious Debut

The Web Revolt

A Boulder land grab grabs lots of attention.

Denver Post Names Two New Metro Columnists

The Denver Post's Miles Moffeit Wins Two Awards -- One Unofficially

The Denver Post Finds Strands of Truth

The Denver Post Huddles Up

The Message

Scout's Honor

The Message

The Mayor's Race

Ad Attack

Political commercials outnumber political reports on local television.

What's Left?

The Post denies accusations of slanted coverage.

Swing Shift

Unhappiness over a newsroom shuffle is only the latest sign of malaise at the Post.

Median Range

A new panhandling restriction has its roots in the now-ended newspaper war.

The Story of Adele H

There's a thing or two you don't know about Adele Arakawa.