I-News has won a grant of nearly $5,000 from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. If you’ve never heard of the Fund, you’ll enjoy the story of how it got started. In 1969, a philanthropist named Philip M. Stern founded the Fund because, as their website describes, he believed: “small amounts of money invested in the [...]
One of the most important things I-News does is help our media partners make sense of the census. It’s safe to say journalists have a love-hate relationship with the U.S. Census Bureau. Love the information. Hate how complicated, convoluted and complex it can be just to access the data, let alone start to analyze it. [...]
Last November, an I-News investigation uncovered dangerous and illegal treatment of hazardous electronic waste that even Colorado regulators didn’t know about. State lawmakers have introduced legislation attempting to fix some of the problems I-News found. Here’s the latest from I-News reporter Kristin Jones: It’s hard to imagine: A flourishing local trade in hazardous electronic [...]
High school students can spend the week of July 18-22 at the University of Denver learning how to think, question, and dig for the truth like an investigative reporter at I-News’ Investigative Journalism Institute. Take your research, reporting and storytelling to a new level with instruction and guidance from the award-winning journalists of I-News: The [...]
At the end of 2010, a check arrived in the I-News mailbox. This is always big news, no matter how big the check. This one was an unsolicited grant of $2,500 from the Brett Family Foundation in Boulder. Today, another check arrived from Brett. This time for $5,000. We like this trend! Brett Family Foundation [...]
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Here are two short audio reports from I-News reporter Burt Hubbard. The first report is about recently released census data. I-News partners can localize this report with census numbers from their own cities and counties. Instructions follow the script. Lower on the page is a report on aviation safety. Census Round-up [Duration 00:40 seconds] Script [...]
From the I-News report: I-News, a collaborative of Colorado media, analyzed 10 years’ worth of air safety reports and found that Colorado’s air traffic controllers reported 32 serious safety concerns last year, ranging from confusion during severe weather to too many trainees in control facilities. There were more reports of serious events and hazards last [...]
Happy Birthday, I-News! Today, I-News celebrates its first anniversary. Wondering what to get a year-old nonprofit news organization? Well…we do like tax-deductible donations! And we’d love to have you join us on Facebook and Twitter. But first, let’s look back on this amazing year. In this short time, we’ve already become a trusted source of [...]
