JSNE Relies on Seasoned Investigative Journalists
The key feature of JSNE’s capacity to connect the DougCo facts is its direct reliance on professional journalistic research and investigative reporting available in the public domain at the local, state, and national levels.
Rather than ‘reinventing the wheel,’ JSNE draws on expert subject-matter content from the public domain and focuses on direct local observation and on predicting how dominant outside ideological trends are likely to play out in Douglas County.
Given DougCo’s long history of high-profile conservative activism, today’s public figures are less inhibited about displaying their direct connections to extreme ideologies and aspects of the culture war. In fact, many are proud, even boastful, about their “badges of courage” entanglements with Trump’s election deniers, nativist evangelicals, anti-government militias, and others. They are acutely dependent on benefactor associations with billionaire-funded think tanks and astroturf groups.
These cabalistic behaviors have reinforced DougCo’s outside reputation as too predictable… a “news desert”. Fortunately, the Cabal’s social media is often the most reliable source of information about what’s happening within the Cabal.
Over time, JSNE has developed a select group of esteemed Colorado journalists and media professionals.
These nearby professionals bring extensive local reporting backgrounds and experience-based insights. They have passed muster and consistently produce content relevant to the DougCo story. Fortunately, they welcome input and news leads from the JSNE community.
Increasingly, the best Colorado news and political journalists are affiliated with nimble independent agencies, allowing for a straightforward and uncensored style of journalism. Colorado is widely regarded as a national leader and “hotbed” for independent, high-quality journalism. As of late 2025, the state has a robust ecosystem of nonprofit, journalist-owned, and community-supported newsrooms that have emerged to counter the decline of traditional, hedge-fund-owned corporate newsletters.
Colorado Times Recorder
CTM was launched in 2016. “We aim to be fair and accurate. Our work is nonpartisan, with a progressive orientation, which means we emphasize coverage of Colorado stories that advance or illuminate the progressive values of freedom, justice, responsibility, opportunity, and equality. Conversely, call out/correct/challenge bigotry, racism, misinformation, and conspiracies, particularly — at this moment — election conspiracies.”
Journalists: Editor: Joel Salzman; Reporters: Erik Maulbetsch; Sean Beedle; John O’Rourke; Loran M Davis
Colorado Newsline
Colorado Newsline is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, independent source of online news. It launched in July 2020. Newsline is an affiliate of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization, supported by grants and donations. Newsline retains full editorial independence, and editorial decisions are made by journalists alone It provides fair and accurate reporting on politics, policy and other stories of interest to Colorado readers.
Journalists: Editor – Quentin Young; Reporters: Chase Woodruff; Sara Wilson
The Colorado Sun
“The Colorado Sun is a journalist-owned, award-winning news outlet based in Denver that strives to cover all of Colorado so that our state — our community — can better understand itself. In this way, we believe we can contribute to a more vibrant, informed and whole Colorado. We are committed to fact-based, in-depth and nonpartisan journalism. We are a public benefit corporation, which means we’re a for-profit company incorporated with a mission.
Journalists: Reporters – Sandra Fish; Editor: Jesse Paul
Westword
Westword was born back in 1977, when Denver was booming. Thousands of baby boomers were fleeing the coasts, lured to Colorado by the climate, the scenery, and the promise of endlessly flowing Coors. But with the deluge came a dilemma: so many young, active people — and so little that told them what was happening in their increasingly dynamic city. That’s where Westword came in.
Journalists: Reporters – Heidi Metzger; B. Kelly
Colorado Public Radio
The first station in what would become Colorado Public Radio, KCFR (90.1 FM) in Denver, went on the air in 1970. CPR News includes a locally produced program called “Colorado Matters,” local newscasts throughout the day and national/international news from sources like NPR and the BBC.
Journalists: Colorado Matters – Ryan Warner; Public Affairs – Bente Birkeland
Sentinel
For more than a century, the Aurora Sentinel has been the trusted news voice of the Aurora region. The Aurora Sentinel/Sentinel Colorado is now overseen by a non-profit board of directors. The Aurora Sentinel Community Media non-profit corporation was created to grow a robust, thriving news organization with the capacity to cover the issues and interests of the diverse community of Aurora.
Editor: Dave Perry
The Denver Post
The Denver Post is managed by Digital First Media, under the ownership of Alden Global Capital. The announcement of 30 more layoffs in March 2018, which reduced the paper’s newsroom from 100 to around 70 people, prompted a denunciation of its owners from the editorial board of The Denver Post. The editorial decried Alden Global Capital as “vulture capitalists” who were “strip-mining” the newspaper; it concluded that “Denver deserves a newspaper owner who supports its newsroom.
Clarity Media
Clarity Media Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Anschutz Corporation, is a media holding company that publishes the Colorado Springs Gazette, the Denver Gazette, Colorado Politics, Out there Colorado, and the Washington Examiner. Anschutz’s Clarity Media Group, which owns not only the Colorado Springs Gazette but also the (online) Denver Gazette (launched in 2020), and, since 2016, Colorado Politics, a political print/online newspaper built on a century-old publication, the Colorado Statesman, which Clarity Media took over in 2017. And Clarity Media’s Washington Examiner injects national conservative content into Colorado via these platforms.
