Ann Healey News Today

“The truth should have come out years ago …”

Just before Thanksgiving last year, Melissa Milios Davis was contacted by Jerry Healey, the co-owner — along with his wife, Ann Healey — of Colorado Community Media, which publishes 24 weekly and monthly newspapers in the Denver suburbs. The Healeys were approaching retirement and looking to sell, and they were hoping to avoid turning over…

Community News Gets Nonprofit Backing In Colorado May 6, 2021 A local and national partnership has put a network of 24 weekly or monthly newspapers in Colorado under a nonprofit umbrella. Colorado Community Media (CCM), an independent, family-owned group of 24 community newspapers and websites plus two shoppers, has been acquired by the newly created Colorado News Conservancy, a public benefit corporation jointly owned and operated by The National Trust for Local News and The Colorado Sun. It i...

Once again, Colorado is staking out new ground in the battle to save local news, this time with a first-in-the-nation effort to keep newspapers locally owned and thriving. For about a year now, Jerry and Ann Healey, owners of Colorado Community Media and its chain of two dozen weekly papers in eight Front Range counties, have been looking to retire.  On Monday, a newly-formed group called the Colorado News Conservancy announced it will buy the company in a unique arrangement that involves the...

The rise of online media has been devastating for community newspapers — print publications that often serve as the only homegrown information source in small towns across the country, including many in Colorado. By one recent estimate, over 1,800 newspapers have closed across the United States since 2004, including about 1,700 weeklies. The 24 newspapers and two advertising-based shoppers in the Colorado Community Media chain could have easily wound up suffering the same fate. For co-owners ...

By JAMES ANDERSON Created: May 03, 2021 02:51 PM DENVER (AP) - The Colorado Sun, a Denver-based online news operation created three years ago by journalists who left The Denver Post, has partnered with a national nonprofit to buy 24 community newspapers in a unique venture that seeks to preserve local journalism. The arrangement adds to a growing number of newspapers receiving boosts from nonprofits that are devoted to protecting journalism in the United States where priva...

Denver Post, Alden Global Capital, in May 2018. Former Post journalists created The Sun has acquired two dozen suburban Denver papers. David Zalubowski / AP Updated at 4:35 p.m. ET A group of disheartened former Denver Post editors and reporters launched an upstart news site 2 1/2 years ago, called it The Colorado Sun, and hoped it could rescue local news coverage from the dictates of hedge fund owners and Wall Street investors. On Monday morning, The Sun announced had acquired and ...

A sign from a rally against the ownership of the Denver Post, Alden Global Capital, in May 2018. Former Post journalists created The Sun has acquired two dozen suburban Denver papers. David Zalubowski/AP A group of disheartened former Denver Post editors and reporters launched an upstart news site 2 1/2 years ago, called it The Colorado Sun, and hoped it could rescue local news coverage from the dictates of hedge fund owners and Wall Street investors. On Monday morning, The ...

In Denver, Civic-Minded ‘Colorado Sun’ Acquires Suburban Newspaper Chain By David Folkenflik  May 3, 2021 A group of disheartened former Denver Post editors and reporters launched an upstart news site 2 1/2 years ago, called it The Colorado Sun, and hoped it could rescue local news coverage from the dictates of hedge fund owners and Wall Street investors. On Monday morning, The Sun announced it had acquired and would operate a family-owned chain of 24 suburban newspapers around Denver...

© Getty Images The Colorado Sun has bought 24 local newspapers in Colorado with the help of The National Trust for Local News, in a deal meant to prevent the papers from being acquired by hedge funds, the Sun and the Trust announced Monday. The papers, most of which are published weekly, will be owned by The Colorado News Conservancy, a new corporation created by the Sun and the Trust. As part of the deal, the individual news publications and websites will continue to be managed by local staff...