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)
• Left Hand Valley Courier — Niwot, Colorado (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

See also

Comprehensive Lists of newspapers List of newspapers in the United States Frequency List of free daily newspapers in the United States List of weekly newspapers in the United States Circulation List of international newspapers originating in the United States List of national newspapers in the United States List of newspapers in the United States by circulation List of newspapers serving cities over 100,000 in the United States Foreign language List of French-language newspapers published in the United States List of German-language newspapers published in the United States List of Spanish-language newspapers published in the United States

Specialty List of African-American newspapers in the United States List of alternative weekly newspapers in the United States List of business newspapers in the United States List of family-owned newspapers in the United States List of Jewish newspapers in the United States List of LGBTQ periodicals in the United States List of student newspapers in the United States List of supermarket tabloids in the United States List of underground press in the United States Other List of defunct newspapers of the United States

• List of African-American newspapers in Colorado

References

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. https://pikespeakbulletin.com/ ^[bare URL]
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". Carnegie Library for Local History.
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.

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