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CPR NEWS
CPR NEWS: COVERING COLORADO
7 96 ,000 +
281,100
47,00 0
monthly digital
readers
Weekly statewide
radio listeners
subscribers to the
Lookout newsletter
Source: Google Analytics,
July 1, 2024-June 30, 2023
Source: Nielsen Fall 2023/
Spring 2024
As of June 30, 2024
THE LOOKOUT
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CPR News provides comprehensive, fact-based news and
information from Colorado’s largest nonprofit newsroom. Thanks
to our public media model and supporters like you, the news we
provide – including on-air, digital stories, podcasts, newsletters and
social media – is never put behind a paywall. Last summer, CPR
was the first U.S. media organization to obtain a Journalism Trust
Initiative certification based on the transparency, independence
and professionalism of our editorial practices.
This year, CPR News led the way with coverage of the trials in the
death of Elijah McClain. From jury selection – when reporter Allison
Sherry broke a story that the Aurora Police Department had sent
undercover officers to the jury selection – through live special
coverage when each of the three trials announced verdicts, CPR
News stayed on the story with focus, dedication and compassion.
In May, at a congressional hearing on NPR brought on by the
politicization of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Colorado
Representative Diana DeGette testified to the importance of public
media and the value CPR brings to the public. She pointed out that
CPR is the only Colorado news organization with a reporter based
in Washington, D.C., and that her role is to report on the entire
Colorado delegation on behalf of all Coloradans.
CPR also prioritizes offering solutions in its journalism, as opposed
to simply reporting on issues and problems. This year, “news you
can use” stories covering EV discounts and rebates, new laws, free
college programs and whether or not the air is safe to breathe near
I-70 were especially popular with readers.
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Beyond vital coverage of justice, politics and breaking news, CPR
News also sought to showcase lighter topics to help counteract
feelings of news fatigue. In January, we launched a new on-air and
digital feature, the CO Arts Spotlight, to provide a weekly roundup
of some of the arts events happening around the state.
Clockwise from top left: Nathaniel Minor interviews participants in Brown International
Academy’s “bike bus” (Kevin J. Beaty); Eden Lane covers the closing of Kolacny Music
(Kevin J. Beaty); Tony Gorman finds a quiet place to work while reporting on the Elijah
McClain trials (Hart Van Denburg); Rep. Diana DeGette speaks in a Congressional
hearing (YouTube).
