Help us raise over one million dollars for homegrown Colorado journalism.
Support your local newsroom today.
Click the logos below to support one or more of Colorado’s nonprofit or locally-owned newsrooms.
Or support them all with the click of one button, with a donation to the Colorado Media Project’s #newsCOneeds fund at Rose Community Foundation.
This is #newsCOneeds. Between Nov. 28 (a.k.a. #GivingNewsDay) and Dec. 31, 2023, each newsroom below will receive up to $5,000 from Colorado Media Project, in a dollar-for-dollar match aimed at inspiring individuals like you who support long-term sustainability of public-service journalism — which informs communities and strengthens civic engagement statewide.
2023 is the sixth consecutive year that Colorado Media Project is offering the matching grant challenge. Last year, 32 CMP grantees collectively raised more than $850,000 in the month of December, and over the last five years, Colorado newsrooms have raised over $2.3 million. The program is modeled after the national NewsMatch campaign that has helped nonprofit newsrooms across the country raise more than $271 million since 2017.
Between now and November, these newsrooms are participating in the #newsCOneeds Philanthropy Lab - a new addition to the program this year. This series of eleven workshop session, led by national experts from the Local Media Association and Make Philanthropy Work, and hosted by COLab, helps newsrooms hone their fundraising plans, strengthen their connections to their audiences, and engage Coloradans across the state in supporting a healthy local news ecosystem.
Why support local news? Because it’s an essential public good.
Democracy depends on local news.
Research shows that people need relevant, trustworthy, independent local news to stay safe and healthy, to be engaged in their communities, and to create change on issues they care about.
In communities without a reliable source of local news, fewer people vote or run for office, political polarization increases, government is less accountable, and the local economy can suffer.
But there’s a crisis.
Twenty years ago, local advertising sustained local news. Today, Google and Facebook gobble up to 70% of local digital ad revenue.
Nearly one in five Colorado newspapers has closed since 2004. The number of professional reporters covering critical information needs of Coloradans across all media formats declined by nearly 44% between 2010 and 2018 — from 1,010 to just 570 reporters statewide.
Your support matters.
Individuals like you can turn the tide. By subscribing, donating, or becoming a member of your favorite local newsroom/s, you are ensuring that important issues like education, the environment, health, transportation, and economic opportunity continue to get coverage.
Personal health and safety. Civic participation. Progress on every important issue. It’s all at stake — please support local news today.
And here’s some good news: A collaborative movement building in Colorado.
TV, radio, newspaper, and digital journalists and allies
from across the state are joining forces to better serve you.
Questions? Contact Us.
The 2021 #newsCOneeds campaign is supported by Colorado Media Project, in partnership with the Colorado News Collaborative, News Revenue Hub, and the national NewsMatch campaign.