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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 1h

Freelance journalist "canceled" on Colorado's Eastern Plains? coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-n...

Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 2h

And now, here we are in 2025 where the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled — just this week — that our state’s newspapers are citizens because they are also corporations.

Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 7h

“Corporations are people, my friend,” a frustrated Romney told hecklers at the Iowa State Fair in 2011 — and the remark launched a string of headlines about his “gaffe” that never really subsided.

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 1d

Help me out with that open rate!

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 1d

With apologies to Mitt Romney nostalgia (not really), here's today's newsletter: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-n...

Colorado newspapers are 'citizens,' my friend

The news behind the news in Colorado

coloradomedia.substack.com

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 1d

You see in today's newsletter what the Coloradoan editor said about those AI summary stories?

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 1d

The South Carolina governor's race is going totally normally (as usual): www.fitsnews.com/2025/10/10/c...

Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 2d

"Bari Weiss and Postjournalism: Can the quest to restore journalism be completed?"

"Alas, no," argues Andrey Mir:

andrey4mir.substack.com/p/bari-weiss...

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 2d

Let me know what your program is doing 👇

Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · Jul 15

🚨 ATTN: College journalism professors. I'm looking to find out what you're doing to support your state's local media ecosystem *beyond* student reporting. Fill out this survey if that's you. I'm researching it for UVM's Center for Community News: uvm.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?... #academicsky

How is your academic program supporting local news *beyond* student reporting?

Better understanding the various roles that colleges and universities play in a state's media ecosystem is important — and we need your help. This survey for the Center for Community News at the Uni...

uvm.us15.list-manage.com

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 4d

Does this mean I can keep a copy on the passenger seat and drive in the HOV lane?

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Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition @coloradofoic.bsky.social · 4d

The Aurora Sentinel is a “citizen” entitled to recover attorney fees and court costs for prevailing in an open meetings lawsuit against the Aurora City Council, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

CO Supreme Court: Aurora Sentinel is a ‘citizen’ entitled to attorney fees for winning an open meetings law case - Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition

The Aurora Sentinel is a “citizen” entitled to recover attorney fees and court costs for prevailing in an open meetings lawsuit against the Aurora City Council, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled.

coloradofoic.org

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 4d

"whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" — Voltaire

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 7d

Swine, taking guff edition: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-t...

Colorado to 'review' death of journalist Hunter S. Thompson

The news behind the news in Colorado

coloradomedia.substack.com

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 7d

Evangelizing about the need for more state-based local media newsletters at the Center for Community News national conference in Burlington, Vermont: www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/i-te...

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 8d

🙏 Thanks to The Colorado Health Foundation, the new sponsor keeping “Inside the News in Colorado” free each Friday. Sign up here: coloradomedia.substack.com

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 10d

As I write about this for Friday's "Inside the News in Colorado" newsletter, I'm torn on word choice at the moment. Is this "notable" or "remarkable." What do you think?

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 10d

Aspen is one of the few towns left in the U.S. with two competing daily newspapers. And it's the (checks notes) Colorado Sun, based in Denver, that says it broke the news that authorities are reviewing the 2005 death of Hunter S. Thompson.

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 10d

This panel discussion about citizen journalism is happening in Denver in an hour: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/citizen-jo...

'Citizen journalism' is on the hot seat in Denver

The news behind the news in Colorado

coloradomedia.substack.com

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 14d

👀 The front-page above-the-fold story in Friday’s hedge-fund-owned Estes Park Trail-Gazette is a press release and its lead editorial is by the mayor

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 21d

This week's news behind the news in Colorado includes big changes in the sprawling, rural San Luis Valley and a longtime editorial page editor OUT at a legacy newspaper that shaped conservative political opinion in the state: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/five-newsp...

Five newspapers roll up in Colorado's San Luis Valley + more local media news

The news behind the news in Colorado

coloradomedia.substack.com

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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 22d

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:

• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist

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Lisa Snowden @lisasnowden.bsky.social · 23d

Yes this was also a motivating factor for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social

Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 23d

Why some U.S. journalists are just doing their own thing

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 23d

Why some U.S. journalists are just doing their own thing

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 25d

“Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said while speaking on a panel Tuesday morning at New York Law School: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Sotomayor rebukes calls to ‘criminalize free speech’ in apparent swipe at Pam Bondi

The justice, in public remarks, didn’t name the attorney general, who has come under fire for comments to target people over “hate speech.”

www.politico.com

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 26d

Statement to me from Gazette Publisher Chris Reen via email: "Wayne recently launched his own podcast, 'Wayne's Word', and will be devoting his time and energy to the development of that new project. We'll miss him and have no doubt he'll continune to make a big impact on the state."

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