List of newspapers in Colorado

This is a list of newspapers in the U.S. State of Colorado. According to the Library of Congress, over 2,500 newspapers have been published in Colorado. The first Colorado newspaper was the Rocky Mountain News published in Denver from April 23, 1859, until February 27, 2009.^[1]^[2]

Daily and weekly newspapers (currently published in Colorado)

Larger newspapers (listed by total average paid daily circulation as of 30 September 2012^[3] as compiled by the Audit Bureau of Circulations):

The Denver Post (412,669) — Denver
The Gazette (64,394) — Colorado Springs
Daily Camera (40,483) — Boulder
The Pueblo Chieftain (35,793) — Pueblo
The Daily Sentinel (23,602) — Grand Junction
Daily Times-Call (20,820) — Longmont
The Coloradoan (19,530) — Fort Collins
Reporter-Herald (19,024) — Loveland
The Durango Herald (7,710) — Durango
Cañon City Daily Record (5,271) — Cañon City

Smaller newspapers

Ag Journal Online — La Junta
Akron News-Reporter — Akron (weekly)
Arvada Press — Arvada (weekly)
Aspen Daily News — Aspen
The Aspen Times - Aspen
Aurora Sentinel — Aurora
Bent County Democrat — Las Animas
Berthoud Weekly Surveyor — Berthoud
BizWest — Boulder
Boulder Weekly — Boulder (weekly)
Brighton Standard Blade — Brighton
Broomfield Enterprise — Broomfield (semi-weekly)
Brush News-Tribune — Brush (weekly)
Burlington Record — Burlington (weekly)
Canyon Courier — Conifer (weekly)
The Castle Pines Connection — Castle Pines (monthly)
Castle Pines News Press — Castle Pines (weekly)
Castle Rock News Press — Castle Rock (weekly)
Centennial Citizen — Centennial (weekly)
Center Post Dispatch — Center
The Chaffee County Times — Buena Vista
Trinidad Chronicle-News — Trinidad
Clear Creek Courant — Idaho Springs (weekly)
Colorado Daily — Boulder
Colorado Hometown Weekly — east Boulder County (free weekly)
The Colorado Springs Business Journal — Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs Independent — Colorado Springs (weekly)
Colorado Sun — Colorado (on-line)
Commerce City Sentinel Express — Commerce City
The Craig Press — Craig
The Crested Butte News — Crested Butte
The Crystal Valley Echo — Marble, Colorado
Delta County Independent — Delta
Denver Business Journal — Denver
Denver Herald Dispatch — Denver (weekly)
The Denver North Star — Denver
Douglas County Business Magazine — Parker
Douglas County News-Press — Castle Rock
Dove Creek Press — Dove Creek, Dolores County
The Durango Telegraph — Durango
Eagle Valley Enterprise — Eagle
Elbert County News — Elizabeth (weekly)
Englewood Herald — Englewood (weekly)
Estes Park Trail-Gazette — Estes Park (weekly)
The Flume: The Park County Republican & Fairplay Flume — Bailey and Fairplay
Fort Lupton Press — Fort Lupton
Fort Morgan Times — Fort Morgan
The Fowler Tribune — Fowler
Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle — Denver, Glendale
Golden Transcript — Golden (weekly)
Gorizont — Denver (Russian)
The Greeley Tribune — Greeley
Gunnison Country Times — Gunnison
Haxtun-Fleming Herald — Haxtun
The Herald Democrat — Leadville
High Country News — Paonia (semi-monthly)
Highlands Ranch Herald — Highlands Ranch (weekly)
Intermountain Jewish News — Denver (weekly)
Jeffco Transcript — Lakewood (weekly)
The Johnstown Breeze — Johnstown
The Journal — Cortez, Dolores, and Mancos
Journal-Advocate — Sterling
Julesburg Advocate — Julesburg (weekly)
Kiowa County Press — Eads
La Junta Tribune Democrat — La Junta
La Prensa de Colorado — Denver (Spanish)
La Voz Bilingüe — Denver (Bilingual weekly)
Lamar Ledger — Lamar (weekly)
Law Week Colorado — Denver (weekly)
Life on Capitol Hill — Capitol Hill, Denver (monthly)
Littleton Independent — Littleton (weekly)
Lone Tree Voice — Lone Tree (weekly)
The Lyons Recorder — Lyons
The Metropolitan — Metropolitan State University of Denver
The Mirror — University of Northern Colorado
Monte Vista Journal — Monte Vista
Montrose Mirror Online Newsblast — Montrose
Montrose Press — Montrose
The Mountain Ear — Nederland
The Mountain Jackpot — Woodland Park (weekly)
The Mountain Mail — Salida
North Denver Tribune — Denver
North Forty News — Wellington
The North Weld Herald — Eaton
Northglenn/Thornton Sentinel — Thornton (weekly)
Ouray County Plaindealer — Ouray (weekly)
Our Community News - El Paso County (monthly)
Out Front Colorado — Denver (bi-weekly)
The Pagosa Springs Sun — Pagosa Springs
Parker Chronicle — Parker (weekly)
The Pikes Peak Courier — Teller County
The Pikes Peak Bulletin - Manitou Springs, Cascade and Green Mountain Falls^[4]
Pine River Times — Bayfield
Post Independent Citizen Telegram — Glenwood Springs and Rifle
Redstone Review - Lyons, Colorado (Monthly)
Rio Blanco Herald Times — Meeker Rangely
The Rocky Mountain Collegian — Fort Collins
Saguache Crescent — Saguache
Sangre de Cristo Sentinel — Westcliffe (weekly)
The Senior Beacon — Pueblo (monthly)
Silverton Standard & The Miner — Silverton
Sky-Hi News — Granby
Snowmass Sun — Snowmass
The Sopris Sun — Carbondale
Steamboat Pilot & Today — Steamboat Springs
Summit Daily News — Frisco
Telluride Daily Planet — Telluride
The Telluride Watch — Telluride
The Tribune — Monument, Woodmore, and Gleneagle
Vail Daily — Vail
Valley Courier — Alamosa
The Villager — Greenwood Village
Washington Park Profile — Washington Park, Denver (monthly)
Westminster Window — Westminster (weekly)
The Westside Pioneer — Colorado Springs
Westword — Denver (weekly)
Wet Mountain Tribune — Westcliffe
Windsor Now — Windsor
World Journal — Walsenburg
Yellow Scene Magazine — Erie

Defunct newspapers

The Advocate — Denver
Animas Forks Pioneer — Animas Forks (1882–1886)^[5]
The Aspen Wall Poster — Denver
Boulder County Business Report — Boulder
Boulder Planet (weekly; July 10, 1996 - February 16, 2000) - Boulder^[6]^[7]^[8]
Brighton Banner — Brighton
The Campus Press — University of Colorado at Boulder
Cañon Cafe — Cañon City
Cherry Creek Pioneer — Denver (1859)^[9]
Colorado Mountaineer Established 1875
Colorado Springs Sun
The Colorado Statesman — Denver
Conejos County Citizen — Conejos County (ceased in 2024)^[10]
La Cucaracha (newspaper) — Pueblo^[11]
Denver Daily News
Denver Democrat — Denver
The Denver Times (1872-1926)
El Paso County Advertiser and Fountain Valley News — Fountain^[12]
Erie Echo (weekly; Dec. 1977-1980)^[13]
Fort Collins Now
Grand Junction Free Press — Grand Junction
Lafayette News — Lafayette
Leadville Chronicle — Leadville
Local Yeti — Denver (daily)
Louisville Times — Louisville
The Meadowlark Herald — Elizabeth
Mile High News — Golden
Moffat County News — Craig
Mountain Valley News — Cedaredge
Northern Colorado Business Report — Fort Collins
The Pagosa Free Press — Pagosa Springs
Press - Pueblo (democratic evening paper, end of 19th century)
The Rico Bugle — Rico
Rocky Mountain News — Denver
Rolling Stock — Boulder
Superior Observer — Superior
The Trinidad Times Independent — Trinidad^[14]
The UNC Connection — Greeley
The Vail Trail — Vail

References

^ "Colorado newspapers". Library of Congress. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
^ "Scrappy Rocky Mountain News closing its doors". San Diego Union-Tribune. Associated Press. February 26, 2009. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
^ "Audit Bureau of Circulation". Archived from the original on 2012-10-27. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
^ https://pikespeakbulletin.com/ ^{[bare URL]}
^ "Animas Forks Pioneer". Library of Congress. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
^ Sallo, Stewart (25 August 2011). "Boulder Weekly celebrates 18th anniversary - Boulder Weekly". Boulder Weekly. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
^ "Boulder Planet Internet Edition: Serving Boulder and Boulder County in Beautiful Colorado". 2 November 1999. Archived from the original on 2 November 1999. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
^ "Boulder Planet, 1996-2000". Boulder Public Library archive.
^ "About Cherry Creek pioneer. (Denver City, Kan. [i.e. Denver, Colo.]) 1859-1859". Library of Congress. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
^ "Conejos County Citizen to stop publishing newspaper". The Monte Vista Journal. 2024-08-02. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
^ "About La cucaracha. (Pueblo, Colo.) 1976-198?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
^ "Local newspaper covering Fountain and Security-Widefield for 65 years closes". KOAA News 5. 2023-01-02. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
^ "Newspapers Published in Erie, CO - Erie Historical Society, Erie, Colorado". Erie Historical Society. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
^ Painter, Kristen Leigh. "Trinidad Times Independent in Colorado ceases publication", The Denver Post, 22 July 2013. Retrieved on 21 January 2016.

External links

Penny Abernathy, "The Expanding News Desert: Colorado", Usnewsdeserts.com, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Survey of local news existence and ownership in 21st century)
Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) "a service of the Colorado State Library... includes more than 2,000,000 digitized pages from more than 500 individual newspaper titles published in Colorado primarily from 1859 to 1923" and, with publisher's permission, some newer digitized content

[LOC-1] "Colorado newspapers". Library of Congress. Retrieved March 3, 2020.

[2] "Scrappy Rocky Mountain News closing its doors". San Diego Union-Tribune. Associated Press. February 26, 2009. Retrieved June 6, 2013.

[3] "Audit Bureau of Circulation". Archived from the original on 2012-10-27. Retrieved 2011-11-30.

[4] ttps://pikespeakbulletin.com/ ^{[bare URL]}

[LOCAFP-5] "Animas Forks Pioneer". Library of Congress. Retrieved March 3, 2020.

[6] Sallo, Stewart (25 August 2011). "Boulder Weekly celebrates 18th anniversary - Boulder Weekly". Boulder Weekly. Retrieved 17 August 2018.

[7] "Boulder Planet Internet Edition: Serving Boulder and Boulder County in Beautiful Colorado". 2 November 1999. Archived from the original on 2 November 1999. Retrieved 17 August 2018.

[8] "Boulder Planet, 1996-2000". Boulder Public Library archive.

[9] "About Cherry Creek pioneer. (Denver City, Kan. [i.e. Denver, Colo.]) 1859-1859". Library of Congress. Retrieved 12 April 2017.

[10] "Conejos County Citizen to stop publishing newspaper". The Monte Vista Journal. 2024-08-02. Retrieved 2024-08-02.

[11] "About La cucaracha. (Pueblo, Colo.) 1976-198?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2019-12-22.

[12] "Local newspaper covering Fountain and Security-Widefield for 65 years closes". KOAA News 5. 2023-01-02. Retrieved 2023-01-03.

[13] "Newspapers Published in Erie, CO - Erie Historical Society, Erie, Colorado". Erie Historical Society. Retrieved 2018-09-20.

[14] Painter, Kristen Leigh. "Trinidad Times Independent in Colorado ceases publication", The Denver Post, 22 July 2013. Retrieved on 21 January 2016.

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