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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 19h

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 · 1d

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

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

🙏 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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 10d

👀 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 · 18d

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 · 19d

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 · 20d

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

Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 20d

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

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 20d

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

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 22d

“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 · 22d

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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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 22d

👀 Longtime editorial page editor Wayne Laugesen's name no longer appears on the Gazette's editorial board: gazette.com/opinion/edit...

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 23d

A missed opportunity to say “Go local!”

(My newsletter “Inside the News in Colorado” is 10 years old this month)

www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/i-te...

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 23d

"In fact, parents have no legitimate excuse to allow children younger than six to use screens. The only real explanation is their desire to get some child-free time for themselves." andrey4mir.substack.com/p/screen-tim...

Screen time is stolen time

A French neuroscientist shows that screens and kids shouldn’t mix.

andrey4mir.substack.com

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Medicinal Colorado @medicolorado.bsky.social · 26d

strongly paywalled www.bcdemocratonline.com/ices-detenti... also includes a new "search with AI" box @coreyhutchins.bsky.social

ICE’s detention plans highlight why private prisons should be outlawed - Bent County Democrat

Opinion

www.bcdemocratonline.com

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 29d

Showing the framing of a press release can influence the angle of a news story?

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yowzers. "Korte ... thought she was free to use the program on her computer to check her copy for such things as grammar, style and spelling: 'I believed this was a trusted newsroom-approved AI program.'" isthmus.com/news/news/wi...

Wisconsin State Journal reporter fired for AI misuse speaks out

Fired from the Wisconsin State Journal after filing a story riddled with errors, reporter Audrey Korte shares her side of the story.

isthmus.com

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · Sep 7

For a 2023 Colorado Media Project report, David Coppini from the University of Denver and I identified 52 newspapers that had closed between 2004 and 2023 statewide.

Since then, I have counted more than a dozen more, with a third of them coming from east of I-25.

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · Sep 7

Elsewhere on the Eastern Plains, the newspaper body count has been rising.

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · Sep 7

“There’s nobody to replace me,” she said over the phone on Wednesday. “We’ve been trying to find people to write for us for years, and there’s nobody.”

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