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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 private equity or hedge funds buy up and consolidate financially struggling legacy newspapers. ...

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 would operate a family-owned chain of 24 suburban newspapers around Denver in partnership with a new...

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 Sun announced it had acquired and would operate a family-owned chain of 24 suburban newspapers aroun...

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. “These are the folks who are covering school boards, city councils, county commissions that no ...

© 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. All the outlets in the deal belonged to Colorado Community Media, a newspaper chain owned by Jerry...