Corey Hutchins
@coreyhutchins
Run: Colorado College Journalism Institute Write: ‘Inside the News in Colorado’ newsletter Advise: Colorado Media Project Serve: Board of state SPJ chapter Consult: Center for Community News
A key excerpt from the project, a version of which a future Pulitzer board will likely read:
Hoo boy. The national free speech group FIRE is on the case today with a letter to the superintendent:
Remarkable. A South Carolina judge orders a popular podcaster to pay $171,500 in legal fees and a $5,000 fine, holding her in contempt for skipping a deposition in a civil case she is not a party to because he didn't buy that she feared for her personal safety: www.fitsnews.com/wp-content/u...
New edition of Community Newswire is out. News and analysis about the intersection of higher-ed journalism and community news across the U.S.: mailchi.mp/communitynew... #academicsky #journalism #news
The Associated Press reports it was a helicopter: apnews.com/article/pilo...
Quite the email newsletter subject line from the South Carolina Post & Courier newspaper this morning
Does the governor of Colorado really *squints* have only 120 Substack subscribers?
Phil Weiser beating the pants off Michael Bennet in La Plata County and a big lead in Montezuma County. Hard not to believe a big reason is because of what he did about their “orphan county” status: www.cjr.org/united_state... (they would get news from New Mexico instead of Colorado via satellite)
People might be still filling out ballots in Colorado and researching candidates online with polls closing at 7 p.m. More than 100 downloads within the past few hours on this podcast interview I did with Phil Weiser, the AG who is running for governor: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/interview-...
Full interview with Colorado AG Phil Weiser, who is running for governor, about local news issues here: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/interview-...
Just *look* at what those news stories did to Bennet in a single day on the Polymarket platform with $282,406 on the line so far.
What is the news value to voters by publishing a story like this days before an election? Who is the story actually *for* and why?
New edition of Community Newswire is about, reporting on an analyzing what higher-ed journalism programs are doing around the country: mailchi.mp/communitynew...
👀 This billboard in rural Colorado went up in early June, put up by a progressive nonprofit news site. I'll have the story behind it in this week's newsletter at coloradomedia.substack.com
This made the top of the Student Press Law Center's roundup this week:
🧐 Gotta say, I'm skeptical of this claim that nearly a third of Coloradans live in a news desert, which the paper describes as a place having "zero local newspapers." www.rebuildlocalnews.org/local-news-s...
“Bozo” alert in coverage of the Colorado GOP primary for governor — from the executive editor of the largest MSM news operation Republicans in the state probably read: gazette.com/2026/06/06/a... #clownbeat
The Shibumi summer is real. A remarkably visual example of a brand explosion