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 [...]
[flowplayer src='iNews_Air-Safety.mov' width=586 height=328 splash=safety.jpg splashend=show] Above: A short video on some of the data points I-News examined. Colorado State of Mind host Cynthia Hessin addresses trends examined by an I-News report on aviation safety with reporter Burt Hubbard and experts Greg Boyd, and James Simmons, Ph.D., a professor at Metro State College Department of [...]
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 [...]
Several of Colorado’s largest news organizations, including 9News (KUSA-TV) and The Denver Post, this week featured an I-News analysis of air safety data that shows concerns by air traffic controllers. The Post used Burt Hubbard’s project on the front page of Wednesday’s paper. The report is online here: Air-traffic concerns on the rise in Colorado. [...]
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I was thrilled today to be able to deliver a bit of good news to 65 graduates of the University of Colorado’s school of journalism and mass communication. Basically, I told them I think they’re entering the golden age of journalism. Here’s the text of the commencement speech I delivered: Congratulations to you, class of [...]
Laura Frank, the executive director of I-News, the Rocky Mountain Investigative News Network and a former Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at CU, will deliver the SJMC graduation speech on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. Source: University of Colorado.
I-News has analyzed the Census Bureau’s release of the five-year American Community Survey data and produced a trio of reports on poverty in Colorado, changes in median family income and a look at foreign-born residents. With each story is a packet of data with additional details for your area. You can find the information here: [...]
I-News is all about collaborating. For our most recent investigation, we collaborated in two directions: locally and nationally. We worked with our media partners across the state, as we usually do. And we worked with National Public Radio. So our report on disabled Coloradans who want out of nursing homes gave citizens an in-depth look [...]
One of the things we wanted to learn here at I-News during our startup phase is how our media partners want to use our content. Our investigation of what happens in Colorado to e-waste – all those used computers, cell phones, TVs and other electronics – offered some interesting insights. After a six-month investigation, we [...]
Two ventures focused on civic affairs — I-News and Localocracy — have been selected as winners of the Poynter Promise Prize, an incubation project in entrepreneurial journalism run by The Poynter Institute and funded by the Ford Foundation. I-News, the Rocky Mountain Investigative News Network, is a Denver-based nonprofit that produces in-depth investigative reporting that [...]
