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Recently, Nextar Media announced that it plans to purchase Tegna for 6.2-billion dollars. The move would see FOX 31’s owner buying its rival, Denver’s 9News. The deal is expected to wrap up sometime in the second half of next year. The move has angered Colorado Democrats, worried the consolidation will weaken the state’s civic infrastructure. Here to talk about this is the Colorado Sun’s Parker Yamasaki. Parker, good to have you along today….

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America’s biggest supermarket chain is removing free publication racks from its stores beginning this month, prompting criticism from alternative weekly...

Many parts of the Mountain West are news deserts -- and it’s getting worse. More than 20 counties in our region have no local newspaper. The ones that are…

A hedge-fund-backed bid to buy Gannett Co., the publisher of USA Today and several other major dailies across the U.S., is renewing fears of consolidation…

The Colorado Sun has officially launched itself onto the Colorado's media landscape. The online news outlet, made up of former Denver Post editors and…

The Denver Post wasn’t dying, says Larry Ryckman; it was being murdered.“We were under attack by our own owners,” says Ryckman, who was until recently…

In 2016, a wealthy Utah family bought The Salt Lake Tribune, Utah’s biggest newspaper. Now, the owner has shrunk the 90-person newsroom to just 56, citing…