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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 Jerry and Ann Healey, keeping the operation going has been a work-intensive labor of love for nearly...

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 ...

A sign from a rally against the ownership of the Denver Post, Alden Global Capital, in May 2018. Former Post journalists created the Colorado Sun that year; now the Sun has acquired two dozen suburban Denver papers. 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 Den...