Corey Hutchins
@coreyhutchins.bsky.social
Run: Colorado College Journalism Institute Write: ‘Inside the News in Colorado’ newsletter https://coloradomedia.substack.com/
Advise: Colorado Media Project
Serve: Board of state SPJ chapter
Advise: Colorado Media Project
Serve: Board of state SPJ chapter
“At universities across the country, media relations offices often act as gatekeepers rather than facilitators.” nutgrafnews.substack.com/p/how-admin-...
How admin stonewalling forces student journalists to work around
‘We just aren’t able to publish because we physically can’t get the information’
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November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“At universities across the country, media relations offices often act as gatekeepers rather than facilitators.” nutgrafnews.substack.com/p/how-admin-...
Has there been a Dem Party memo to governor candidates to swear in interviews? Seeing Kathy Hochul on TV just after Michael Bennet in Colorado dropped an F-bomb on Denver City Cast (then publicized the clip on social). Feels cringy, like they need it to break through in the Trump era or something?
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Has there been a Dem Party memo to governor candidates to swear in interviews? Seeing Kathy Hochul on TV just after Michael Bennet in Colorado dropped an F-bomb on Denver City Cast (then publicized the clip on social). Feels cringy, like they need it to break through in the Trump era or something?
After John Oliver highlighted a small southern Colorado public radio station and joked about the appearance of its volunteer DJ on the season finale of "Last Week Tonight," thousands of dollars in donations poured into KRZA from around the country: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-i...
Colorado in major media spotlight on John Oliver's 'Last Week Tonight'
The news behind the news in Colorado
coloradomedia.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
After John Oliver highlighted a small southern Colorado public radio station and joked about the appearance of its volunteer DJ on the season finale of "Last Week Tonight," thousands of dollars in donations poured into KRZA from around the country: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-i...
Sent from a Four Corners source
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Sent from a Four Corners source
So, @lastweektonight.com, it turns out this guy actually does do Santa Claus gigs in town. He also plays the mandolin in a Celtic band and hasn’t shaved his beard since the spring of 1980. More importantly, KRZA brought in $2k in donations since your show: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-i...
November 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
So, @lastweektonight.com, it turns out this guy actually does do Santa Claus gigs in town. He also plays the mandolin in a Celtic band and hasn’t shaved his beard since the spring of 1980. More importantly, KRZA brought in $2k in donations since your show: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-i...
All I'm going to hint at in tomorrow's newsletter is: He actually does do community gigs as Santa Claus.
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
All I'm going to hint at in tomorrow's newsletter is: He actually does do community gigs as Santa Claus.
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if you are a student who was banned, or know one who was, reach out. i would be happy to represent you in a civil rights suit. this is outrageous.
“(CU) has definitely been repressing student activists, which is already in itself a horrible thing for them to do … but repressing journalists is a new low for them, honestly.”
Agreed.
www.dailycamera.com/2025/11/20/c...
Agreed.
www.dailycamera.com/2025/11/20/c...
CU Boulder bans student journalists from campus after they covered a pro-Palestine protest
The University of Colorado Boulder banned three student journalists from campus and charged them with code of conduct violations after they covered a pro-Palestine protest in October.
www.dailycamera.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
if you are a student who was banned, or know one who was, reach out. i would be happy to represent you in a civil rights suit. this is outrageous.
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this is disturbing CU Boulder news... and good reporting by Olivia Doak.
www.dailycamera.com/2025/11/20/c...
www.dailycamera.com/2025/11/20/c...
Student journalists say they were banned from campus after they covered a pro-Palestine protest
The University of Colorado Boulder banned three student journalists from campus and charged them with code of conduct violations after they covered a pro-Palestine protest in October.
www.dailycamera.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
this is disturbing CU Boulder news... and good reporting by Olivia Doak.
www.dailycamera.com/2025/11/20/c...
www.dailycamera.com/2025/11/20/c...
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Last week, Suncoast Searchlight's four reporters wrote a letter to their board. Their editor-in-chief had secretly been using ChatGPT and inserting hallucinated quotes into their drafts.
The next day, one of those reporters was fired. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...
The next day, one of those reporters was fired. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...
Florida nonprofit news reporters ask board to investigate their editor’s AI use
Suncoast Searchlight’s four reporters told the board their editor-in-chief was using AI editing tools and inserting hallucinations into drafts. The next day, one of the reporters was fired.
www.niemanlab.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Last week, Suncoast Searchlight's four reporters wrote a letter to their board. Their editor-in-chief had secretly been using ChatGPT and inserting hallucinated quotes into their drafts.
The next day, one of those reporters was fired. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...
The next day, one of those reporters was fired. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...
November 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
If weekly newsletter-planning history is any a guide, something big should happen in Colorado media this week. Because it's already Tuesday and I don't have a lead item in mind for Friday's edition of "Inside the News in Colorado." Seems like every time this happens something 👀 eventually drops.
November 19, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If weekly newsletter-planning history is any a guide, something big should happen in Colorado media this week. Because it's already Tuesday and I don't have a lead item in mind for Friday's edition of "Inside the News in Colorado." Seems like every time this happens something 👀 eventually drops.
What is the best book, essay, news story or paper, since the 2010 publication of "The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the American University" that tackles this trend from 2010 until now? #AcademicSky
November 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
What is the best book, essay, news story or paper, since the 2010 publication of "The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the American University" that tackles this trend from 2010 until now? #AcademicSky
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This will apparently add (negligible) storage costs, but I don't even see how that's true, since one of my favorite stupid only-in-government things is that the "audio-only" recordings are already stored as enormous mp4 files (because the webcasting platform they use is designed for video).
November 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This will apparently add (negligible) storage costs, but I don't even see how that's true, since one of my favorite stupid only-in-government things is that the "audio-only" recordings are already stored as enormous mp4 files (because the webcasting platform they use is designed for video).
Here are all the Colorado news outlets I could find that have accounts on this platform. Let me know if you see others I should add: bsky.app/profile/core...
November 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Here are all the Colorado news outlets I could find that have accounts on this platform. Let me know if you see others I should add: bsky.app/profile/core...
This week's "Inside the News in Colorado" newsletter includes a new documentary about Colorado journalism, a Denver TV station protecting the identity of a controversial anonymous social media account, another newspaper closure, and more: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-j...
Colorado journalism demystified in new documentary 'Truth Be Told'
The news behind the news in Colorado
coloradomedia.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This week's "Inside the News in Colorado" newsletter includes a new documentary about Colorado journalism, a Denver TV station protecting the identity of a controversial anonymous social media account, another newspaper closure, and more: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-j...
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AI in policing is worrisome for civil liberties advocates, who say the technology has the potential to amplify bias and introduce false information into the justice system. "It’s really hard to put the genie back in the bottle,” ACLU of Colorado's Anaya Robinsontells @katielangrock.bsky.social
Colorado police are already using AI — but experts say the tech still has red flags
Artificial intelligence has arrived at many of Colorado’s law enforcement agencies, but exactly how it’s being used and the ripple effects of that use is not always clear.
www.denverpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
AI in policing is worrisome for civil liberties advocates, who say the technology has the potential to amplify bias and introduce false information into the justice system. "It’s really hard to put the genie back in the bottle,” ACLU of Colorado's Anaya Robinsontells @katielangrock.bsky.social
Newsletter out, check your inbox...📬
November 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Newsletter out, check your inbox...📬
Notice he allegedly said he would pass it to a “political reporter.” Wasn’t one of the reasons the Watergate scandal broke open in the Washington Post because reporters treated it as a crime story and not a political story?
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Notice he allegedly said he would pass it to a “political reporter.” Wasn’t one of the reasons the Watergate scandal broke open in the Washington Post because reporters treated it as a crime story and not a political story?
A new local news-mapping project has emerged in New Mexico, the latest state to create one: www.nmnewsmap.org
New Mexico News Map
www.nmnewsmap.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
A new local news-mapping project has emerged in New Mexico, the latest state to create one: www.nmnewsmap.org
"The county involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor": kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, expresses regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
"The county involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor": kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
A large city's fire department in 2025 alerting the public in official communications that they have "contained this fire to a homeless camp": x.com/CSFDPIO/stat...
Colorado Springs Fire Department on X: "Engine 11 and Engine 23 contained this fire to a homeless camp. Firefighters sprayed foam on the area where the fire burned to cool it and cut off any oxygen to ensure the fire would not reignite. Thank you to all members of the community who called in to report this fire. https://t.co/KqzEz1zTeX" / X
Engine 11 and Engine 23 contained this fire to a homeless camp. Firefighters sprayed foam on the area where the fire burned to cool it and cut off any oxygen to ensure the fire would not reignite. Thank you to all members of the community who called in to report this fire. https://t.co/KqzEz1zTeX
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November 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
A large city's fire department in 2025 alerting the public in official communications that they have "contained this fire to a homeless camp": x.com/CSFDPIO/stat...
Whew boy: "I finally got to ask Richard Gingras if it had occurred to him that Google executives commanding blindfolded editors in a game of power and deception might be a metaphor for the actual relationship between Google and journalism." www.codastory.com/authoritaria...
The Werewolf game: an interview with Google's former news chief Richard Gingras - Coda Story
Richard Gingras spent 15 years shaping Google's relationship with journalism—funding conferences, building friendships, creating dependencies. At a Vienna conference, we asked him to account for the s...
www.codastory.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Whew boy: "I finally got to ask Richard Gingras if it had occurred to him that Google executives commanding blindfolded editors in a game of power and deception might be a metaphor for the actual relationship between Google and journalism." www.codastory.com/authoritaria...
The story highlights the growing influence of personalities who post on social media and are able to attract large followings and the extent to which their audiences might know how they operate: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/an-influen...
An 'influencer' wanted $2K to promote a Colorado politician on Instagram?
The news behind the news in Colorado
coloradomedia.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The story highlights the growing influence of personalities who post on social media and are able to attract large followings and the extent to which their audiences might know how they operate: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/an-influen...
"So many sports media outlets have staked their entire futures on converting their audiences into gambling addicts. It makes you wonder whether, a decade from now, we’ll look back on ESPN the same way we look at cigarette companies or the Sackler family." simonowens.substack.com/p/sports-med...
Sports media is addicted to gambling
PLUS: Media executives are no longer focused on longterm growth.
simonowens.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 AM
"So many sports media outlets have staked their entire futures on converting their audiences into gambling addicts. It makes you wonder whether, a decade from now, we’ll look back on ESPN the same way we look at cigarette companies or the Sackler family." simonowens.substack.com/p/sports-med...
“'Biased,' 'Boring' and 'Bad': Unpacking perceptions of news media and journalism among U.S. teens": newslit.org/news-and-res...
Report: “Biased,” “Boring” and “Bad”: Unpacking perceptions of news media and journalism among U.S. teens - The News Literacy Project
This follow-up survey, which recontacted more than 750 respondents from the News Literacy Project’s 2024 News Literacy in America Report, sought to better understand the nature of teen distrust in new...
newslit.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“'Biased,' 'Boring' and 'Bad': Unpacking perceptions of news media and journalism among U.S. teens": newslit.org/news-and-res...