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Denver mayoral candidates debate growth, development
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Development and growth dominated the latest debate of Denver mayoral candidates, much as it has through the entire campaign. The four leading candidates also talked about taxes, improving poorer neighborhoods and who their favorite former Denver mayor was during the forum at the Denver Field House events venue on Federal Boulevard, sponsored by The Denver…
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Denver Post parent Digital First hires financial adviser to press bid for USA Today owner
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Denver-based Digital First Media has hired a financial adviser as it seeks to press its $1.4 billion bid for Gannett Co. Inc. Digital First recently retained investment bank Moelis & Co. for advice on the bid and how to fund it, according to people familiar with the matter. It is also being advised by law…
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Newspaper calls for war of words against Trump media attacks
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BOSTON – A Boston newspaper is proposing a coordinated editorial response from publications across the U.S. to President Donald Trump’s frequent attacks on the news media. “We are not the enemy of the people,” said Marjorie Pritchard, deputy managing editor for the editorial page of The Boston Globe, referring to a characterization of journalists that…
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WATCH: Republican candidates stand by Trump in final gubernatorial debate
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The four Republicans and four Democrats running for governor in Colorado gave their final debate performances at the University of Denver Monday and Tuesday nights, respectively. Republicans moved gingerly around the Trump administration’s previous policy of separating families at the U.S.-Mexican border, while Democrats put the pedal down in the political fast lane to next…
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Denver Post staffers to launch digital news venture (VIDEO)
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As The Denver Post sheds staff under its hedge-fund owners, a pair of the newspaper’s recently departed editors plan to lead a new digital news venture called The Colorado Sun. Working with editors Dana Coffield and Larry Ryckman on the project are some of The Post’s best-known former news reporters – Jason Blevins, Jennifer Brown,…
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Former Denver Post opinion editor to lead CU Boulder news team
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Chuck Plunkett – the former Denver Post editorial-page editor who quit in early May in a dispute with the newspaper’s owners – has landed at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he’ll lead a student investigative-reporting unit as it expands. Plunkett, a veteran reporter and editor, sent shock waves through the media world in April…
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Denver Post staffers protest hedge-fund owner
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Denver Post employees from more than just the newsroom walked out of the newspaper’s Adams County headquarters Tuesday in protest of their hedge-fund owners. The daily newspaper’s workers say New York-based Alden Global Capital has made unprecedented cuts and censored their efforts to expose what they’ve referred to as the firm’s “vulture capitalist” practices that…
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INSIGHTS: As the legislature gets generous, teachers chant, ‘We want more’
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When the purse is open, that’s the time to ask, or demand, a larger share. And that’s what public school teachers have been doing for weeks – well, years – at the Colorado Capitol. But the protests have come at a curious time. The legislature’s past two sessions have been very good for K-12 education…
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More Denver Post leaders, including former owner, quit
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Several more top figures at The Denver Post, including its former owner, are resigning amid budget and staff cuts made by the newspaper’s New York-based hedge fund owners. Several Post reporters tweeted Friday that Dean Singleton had stepped down as chairman and from his position on the editorial board. He was majority owner of the…
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Defiant Denver Post opinion editor resigns
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Chuck Plunkett – the Denver Post editorial-page editor who called out the owners of his own newspaper in spectacular fashion – has resigned, the Denver daily says. Plunkett, a veteran reporter and editor, a month ago orchestrated a six-page opinion package in the paper that blasted Alden Global Capital, the hedge-fund owners of Post parent…
