There s been no shortage of stories for Colorado reporters to cover in the awful, awful year of 2020. But the media itself has been in the spotlight for plenty of major events during the past twelve months, too. Here are ten of the standouts:
Coverage of Black Lives Matter Protests
Demonstrations spurred by the May 25 police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis erupted in downtown Denver a few days later. The vast majority of the events were peaceful, but a relatively small number of ruffians committed acts of vandalism that stirred more controversy. TV stations devoted hours of live coverage for nights on end, complete with helicopter shots of confrontations between police and frustrated citizens, and the results were viewed very differently depending on ideology. BLM supporters charged outlets with concentrating too heavily on destruction, thereby obscuring the actual reasons so many people had taken to the streets, while folks such as KNUS radio s Steffan Tubbs, whose documenta
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Amid a crisis not experienced for more than a century, the pandemic has set off another epidemic of silent suffering.
The isolation.
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It s creating a mental health crisis for young people, and now, eight out of 10 young people say they are struggling.
Over the course of this series, our team looked at what s driving this mental health crisis and why it s hitting 18-30-year-olds especially hard. We tried to strip away the stigma and shame around it, as well as offer tangible ways people can find and access care, support and build connections.
down, obviously there s crime tape crisscrossing the neighborhood. this neighborhood is thick with emergency vehicles, police vehicles, police are walking up and down sidewalks and a lot of people are starting to come out as the day progresses here and just watch in awe at what is developing in their neighborhood. a lot of folks when i first got here, i spoke to these poor folks who were rattled in the middle of the night, many of them flustered. i walked up to them and they were caught off guard about exactly what happened. police came to their doors, pounding on their doors saying you got to get out now because possibly there s explosives in a unit here. i saw people who were dressed in pajamas. one woman was halfway wet, she was caught in the shower. this is quite an astonishing, phenomenal scene here in this neighborhood. jeremy jojola from affiliate kusa, thank you for the intel. i want to go to chief justice correspondent, pete williams, in a minute, who has new information r
safe. because there is probably some very special evidence in there they want to preserve. wow. well, i m sure they want to keep everyone out of the area so whatever happens, no one has even potential harm. thank you so much jeremy jojola there in colorado. let me go back to you, chris. chris, you heard that report. can you tell us, you had started by saying they re just beginning to remove some of the bodies that were killed. so this must be excruciatingly painful for family members. all day their loved ones laying there because it was an active crime scene since this happened a little after midnight. the bodies are just being removed now. it has been absolutely just devastating, obviously, for this
but that he would go to karaoke nights at this bar, a popular bar apparently by the people that live in this area. we re trying to learn as much as possible about this guy but it appears at this point this guy may have kept to himself. we are showing our audience the picture released by the university of colorado, apparently of 24-year-old suspect james holmes. jeremy, we know the other buildings in the area have been evacuated, is that correct? reporter: yes. when i got here about maybe ten minutes to 20 minutes after they were first evacuated, there were at least two apartment buildings, of course, the one that s at the focus of the search and then another apartment building which is of a significant size next to that. there is also some smaller homes in there that have been evacuated. there is a school nearby but the school is shut down. i think they didn t have to evacuate that. there are smaller businesses that appear to be an auto body shop, that may have been shut