Tag: journalism
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Gazette family of papers rakes in 64 awards at 2025 Colorado Press Association Better News Contest
The Gazette family of newspapers won 64 awards in the Colorado Press Association’s annual Better News Contest — a whopping 36 more than the three papers collectively won last year. Colorado Politics raked in 27, The Colorado Springs Gazette took home 21 and The Denver Gazette brought in 16. Colorado Politics also received the Best in…
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Add Lynn Bartels to Colorado’s roll call of legends | Dick Wadhams
A few weeks after the Rocky Mountain News shut its doors forever in 2009, more than 600 Republicans gathered for the state party’s annual Centennial Dinner. Lamenting the historic significance of the loss of one of Colorado’s great daily newspapers, the state chairman noted the presence that evening of former Rocky political reporter Lynn Bartels…
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“60 Minutes”: A study in journalistic bias
A tautology is a needless repetition of an idea using different wording. For example: “Sooner or later the inevitable is bound to happen.” In this case, Bari Weiss is under fire from the stable of leftist so-called journalists at CBS’s “60 Minutes” program. The rebellion is over a story (in fact, a hit piece), recently…
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Journalists work in dire conditions to tell Gaza’s story, knowing that could make them targets
Minutes after journalists converged on the site of an Israeli strike in Gaza, cameraman Ibrahim Qannan began a live broadcast
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The more journalism the better: Denver Gazette turns 5 | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “The more journalists you have, the closer you’ll get to the truth.” So said Patricia Calhoun, longtime editor of the alt-weekly Westword, at a recent conference on Denver journalism. This is precisely the reason we…
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Panel on challenges to journalism shows the question is more important than the answer | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A recent panel discussion on the many challenges journalism faces at the moment demonstrated the value of a good question. We five journalists on the panel weren’t able to answer all the questions posed to…
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As the Gaza war turns 1, colleges need to take a stand — for teaching and learning | Vince Bzdek
As the Israel-Gaza war reaches its unfortunate one-year anniversary Monday, I worry that campuses are bracing for another school year of protests, disruptions and poor handling of their raised student voices. Last year saw university presidents fired, protests turning violent, police crackdowns on campuses, and pro-Palestinian rallies devolving into antisemitism. But this year, let’s hope colleges…
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How we exposed Denver’s homeless industrial complex | Vince Bzdek
In an era when information, misinformation, disinformation, AI-created information, and down-right lies all gets tossed together in the same Mixmaster known as the internet, we journalists believe it’s important for us to occasionally show our work. To let you know who our sources were, what documents we obtained, what our reporting method looked like, and…
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Meet the Denver Gazette Newsroom—Tom Hellauer
Tom Hellauer is a multimedia journalist with the Denver Gazette.