List of newspapers in Colorado explained
This is a list of newspapers in the U.S. State of Colorado. According to the Library of Congress, over 2,500 newspapers have been published in Colorado. The first Colorado newspaper was the Rocky Mountain News published in Denver from April 23, 1859, until February 27, 2009.[1] [2]
Daily and weekly newspapers (currently published in Colorado)
Larger newspapers (listed by total average paid daily circulation as of 30 September 2012[3] as compiled by the Audit Bureau of Circulations):
This is a list of daily newspapers currently published in Colorado. For weekly newspapers, see List of newspapers in Colorado. And this is only as of 2012
- The Denver Post (412,669) — Denver
- The Gazette (64,394) — Colorado Springs
- Daily Camera (40,483) — Boulder
- The Pueblo Chieftain (35,793) — Pueblo
- The Daily Sentinel (23,602) — Grand Junction
- Daily Times-Call (20,820) — Longmont
- The Coloradoan (19,530) — Fort Collins
- Reporter-Herald (19,024) — Loveland
- The Durango Herald (7,710) — Durango
- Cañon City Daily Record (5,271) — Cañon City
Smaller newspapers
- Ag Journal Online — La Junta
- Akron News-Reporter — Akron (weekly)
- Arvada Press — Arvada (weekly)
- Aspen Daily News — Aspen
- The Aspen Times - Aspen
- Aurora Sentinel — Aurora
- Bent County Democrat — Las Animas
- Berthoud Weekly Surveyor — Berthoud
- BizWest — Boulder
- Boulder Weekly — Boulder (weekly)
- Brighton Standard Blade — Brighton
- Broomfield Enterprise — Broomfield (semi-weekly)
- Brush News-Tribune — Brush (weekly)
- Burlington Record — Burlington (weekly)
- Canyon Courier — Conifer (weekly)
- The Castle Pines Connection — Castle Pines (monthly)
- Castle Pines News Press — Castle Pines (weekly)
- Castle Rock News Press — Castle Rock (weekly)
- Centennial Citizen — Centennial (weekly)
- The Chronicle-News — Trinidad
- Clear Creek Courant — Idaho Springs (weekly)
- Colorado Daily — Boulder
- Colorado Hometown Weekly — east Boulder County (free weekly)
- The Colorado Springs Business Journal — Colorado Springs
- Colorado Springs Independent — Colorado Springs (weekly)
- Colorado Sun — Colorado (on-line)
- Commerce City Sentinel Express — Commerce City
- The Craig Press — Craig
- The Crested Butte News — Crested Butte
- The Crystal Valley Echo — Marble, Colorado
- Delta County Independent — Delta
- Denver Business Journal — Denver
- Denver Herald Dispatch — Denver (weekly)
- The Denver North Star — Denver
- Douglas County Business Magazine — Parker
- Douglas County News-Press — Castle Rock
- Dove Creek Press — Dove Creek, Dolores County
- The Durango Telegraph — Durango
- Eagle Valley Enterprise — Eagle
- Elbert County News — Elizabeth (weekly)
- Englewood Herald — Englewood (weekly)
- Estes Park Trail-Gazette — Estes Park (weekly)
- The Flume: The Park County Republican & Fairplay Flume — Bailey and Fairplay
- Fort Lupton Press — Fort Lupton
- Fort Morgan Times — Fort Morgan
- The Fowler Tribune — Fowler
- Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle — Denver, Glendale
- Golden Transcript — Golden (weekly)
- Gorizont — Denver (Russian)
- The Greeley Tribune — Greeley
- Gunnison Country Times — Gunnison
- Haxtun-Fleming Herald — Haxtun
- The Herald Democrat — Leadville
- High Country News — Paonia (semi-monthly)
- Highlands Ranch Herald — Highlands Ranch (weekly)
- Intermountain Jewish News — Denver (weekly)
- Jeffco Transcript — Lakewood (weekly)
- The Johnstown Breeze — Johnstown
- The Journal — Cortez, Dolores, and Mancos
- Journal-Advocate — Sterling
- Julesburg Advocate — Julesburg (weekly)
- Kiowa County Press — Eads
- La Junta Tribune Democrat — La Junta
- La Prensa de Colorado — Denver (Spanish)
- La Voz Bilingüe — Denver (Bilingual weekly)
- Lamar Ledger — Lamar (weekly)
- Law Week Colorado — Denver (weekly)
- Life on Capitol Hill — Capitol Hill, Denver (monthly)
- Littleton Independent — Littleton (weekly)
- Lone Tree Voice — Lone Tree (weekly)
- The Lyons Recorder — Lyons
- The Metropolitan — Metropolitan State University of Denver
- Montrose Mirror Online Newsblast — Montrose
- Montrose Press — Montrose
- The Mountain Ear — Nederland
- The Mountain Jackpot — Woodland Park (weekly)
- The Mountain Mail — Salida
- North Denver Tribune — Denver
- North Forty News — Wellington
- The North Weld Herald — Eaton
- Northglenn/Thornton Sentinel — Thornton (weekly)
- Ouray County Plaindealer — Ouray (weekly)
- Our Community News - El Paso County (monthly)
- Out Front Colorado — Denver (bi-weekly)
- The Pagosa Springs Sun — Pagosa Springs
- Parker Chronicle — Parker (weekly)
- The Pikes Peak Courier — Teller County
- The Pikes Peak Bulletin - Manitou Springs, Cascade and Green Mountain Falls[4]
- Pine River Times — Bayfield
- Post Independent Citizen Telegram — Glenwood Springs and Rifle
- Redstone Review - Lyons, Colorado (Monthly)
- Rio Blanco Herald Times — Meeker Rangely
- The Rocky Mountain Collegian — Fort Collins
- Saguache Crescent — Saguache
- Sangre de Cristo Sentinel — Westcliffe (weekly)
- The Senior Beacon — Pueblo (monthly)
- Silverton Standard & The Miner — Silverton
- Steamboat Pilot & Today — Steamboat Springs
- Summit Daily News — Frisco
- Telluride Daily Planet — Telluride
- The Telluride Watch — Telluride
- The Tribune — Monument, Woodmore, and Gleneagle
- The Villager — Greenwood Village
- Washington Park Profile — Washington Park, Denver (monthly)
- Westminster Window — Westminster (weekly)
- The Westside Pioneer — Colorado Springs
- Westword — Denver (weekly)
- Wet Mountain Tribune — Westcliffe
- Windsor Now — Windsor
- World Journal — Walsenburg
- Yellow Scene Magazine — Erie
Defunct newspapers
See also
External links
- . (Survey of local news existence and ownership in 21st century)
- Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) "a service of the Colorado State Library... includes more than 2,000,000 digitized pages from more than 500 individual newspaper titles published in Colorado primarily from 1859 to 1923" and, with publisher's permission, some newer digitized content
Notes and References
- Web site: Colorado newspapers. Library of Congress. March 3, 2020.
- News: Scrappy Rocky Mountain News closing its doors. June 6, 2013. February 26, 2009. Associated Press. San Diego Union-Tribune.
- Web site: Audit Bureau of Circulation . 2011-11-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121027085243/http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/newstitlesearchus.asp . 2012-10-27 .
- https://pikespeakbulletin.com/
- Web site: Animas Forks Pioneer. Library of Congress. March 3, 2020.
- Web site: Sallo . Stewart . Boulder Weekly celebrates 18th anniversary - Boulder Weekly . Boulder Weekly . 17 August 2018 . 25 August 2011.
- Web site: Boulder Planet Internet Edition: Serving Boulder and Boulder County in Beautiful Colorado . https://web.archive.org/web/19991102234719/http://boulderplanet.com/ . dead . 2 November 1999 . 17 August 2018 . 2 November 1999 .
- Web site: Boulder Planet, 1996-2000 . Boulder Public Library archive.
- News: About Cherry Creek pioneer. (Denver City, Kan. [i.e. Denver, Colo.]) 1859-1859 ]. 12 April 2017 . Library of Congress.
- Web site: 2024-08-02 . Conejos County Citizen to stop publishing newspaper . 2024-08-02 . The Monte Vista Journal . en.
- Web site: About La cucaracha. (Pueblo, Colo.) 1976-198?. Chronicling America. Library of Congress. 2019-12-22.
- Web site: 2023-01-02 . Local newspaper covering Fountain and Security-Widefield for 65 years closes . 2023-01-03 . KOAA News 5 . en.
- News: Newspapers Published in Erie, CO - Erie Historical Society, Erie, Colorado. Erie Historical Society. 2018-09-20. en-US.
- Painter, Kristen Leigh. "Trinidad Times Independent in Colorado ceases publication", The Denver Post, 22 July 2013. Retrieved on 21 January 2016.