AAN News
Ballot Issues Not Faring Well, Says New Polling Data in the Colorado Springs Independent
Poll Results in Thursday's Independent
Property Tax Measure 2C trailing by 20 points
Doug Bruce’s Measure 300 losing by just 5 points, within margin of error
Only 56% of Springs Voters believe Obama born in America
(FULL STORY)
Colorado Springs Independent Press Release |
10-26-2009 1:33 pm |
Press Releases
Ted Haggard Confesses in This Week's Colorado Springs Independent
Ted Haggard Talks
About launching a new church, drug use, homosexuality and much more. (FULL STORY)
About launching a new church, drug use, homosexuality and much more. (FULL STORY)
Colorado Springs Independent Press Release |
10-01-2009 12:27 pm |
Press Releases
Competing Colorado Springs Papers Band Together for Endorsements
The alt-weekly Colorado Springs Independent has joined with the daily Colorado Springs Gazette to publish tandem endorsements regarding two upcoming ballot questions. "We have set aside our differences to graphically illustrate how important it is for citizens to vote this fall to ensure the short- and long-term health of the city we call home," Independent publisher John Weiss says. "Join with us to help save our city from a terrible -- yet still avoidable -- fate."
(FULL STORY)
Colorado Springs Independent Press Release |
09-10-2009 9:36 am |
Press Releases
Alt-Weeklies Fare Well in Colorado SPJ Awards
The winners of the Colorado Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists' 2008 Mark of Excellence awards were announced late last month, and both Boulder Weekly and the Colorado Springs Independent went home winners, AAN News has learned. The Indy won 13 awards total, including six first-place finishes -- in A&E Reporting, Education Reporting, Food and Beverage, Legal Affairs Reporting Personal Columns, and Political Reporting. Boulder Weekly won a total of four awards, including one first-place finish in the Science/Environment/Ag/Medical reporting category. In addition, Indy contributing editor Cara DeGette placed first in the blog category for her writing on ColoradoConfidential.com, the Denver-based website she helped launch in 2006.
AAN News |
04-11-2008 8:39 am |
Honors & Achievements
Colorado Springs Independent Dropped from Starbucksnew
Publisher John Weiss says he was asked a couple months ago by one area Starbucks store to pick up the Indy's news racks there. When he asked why the paper was being kicked out, the manager told him an individual had complained and the corporate office decided to pull the paper, KOAA-TV reports. "Starbucks has a non-solicitation policy and the standard operating procedure is to carry only the New York Times and the local paper, i.e. the Colorado Springs Gazette," the coffee giant says in a statement. Weiss says it sets a double standard: "Just allowing one newspaper, which is very, very conservative, into their stores, we don't think provides the balance this community needs." The Indy went through a similar ban eight years ago at King Soopers grocery stores, according to KOAA. The stores eventually brought the paper back after receiving multiple complaint letters and phone calls from customers.
KOAA-TV |
12-28-2007 8:36 am |
Industry News
More Details on Colorado Springs Independent's Classified Web Portalnew
Last month, the Independent announced that it had partnered with 12 local media outlets in the region to create SoCoAds.com, a classified web portal designed to compete with Craigslist with local ads gleaned from more than 500 national websites. ColoradoBiz thinks that SoCoAds.com may already have a leg up on Craigslist, since the site can buy advertising. The media companies have collectively invested $50,000 in premium ad and broadcast space to support SoCoAds.com in a big one-month starting push. In addition, ColoradoBiz reports the site won't allow prostitution services and other questionable listings, "because Colorado Springs is not that kind of market."
ColoradoBiz Magazine |
10-03-2007 2:22 pm |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Partners With Local Media to Launch Classified Web Portal
The Colorado Springs Independent has joined local TV and radio stations to launch a free classified portal covering Southern Colorado called SoCoAds.com. In addition to the Indy's free classifieds, SoCoAds will draw ads from national portals like Monster.com, CareerBuilder, HotJobs, AutoMart and eBay. "Southern Colorado now has easy, one-stop online shopping for jobs, apartments, cars, pets, roommates ...
virtually anything," says Ethan Beute, creative services director media partner KOAA-TV, in a press release.
(FULL STORY)
SoCoAds.com Press Release |
09-18-2007 8:24 am |
Press Releases
Alt-Weekly Campaigns to Expose Daily's Restaurant Reviewernew
Nathaniel Glen ... it's got a nice ring to it, but it's just the pseudonym being used by The Gazette of Colorado Springs' new restaurant critic. Now the Colorado Springs Independent is working to lift his veil of anonymity, running two articles criticizing the pseudonym and hinting at his identity in the form of rhymes and anagrams, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The critic chose to work under an assumed name because he was already a staffer at the paper and his real identity was known. "But a person's byline doesn't make that person known to everyone in the community," says Ralph Routon, the Indy's executive editor. "We use several reviewers whose names are well known and their ability to do their job has never been compromised."
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
07-12-2007 8:43 am |
Industry News
Colorado Springs Independent Earns 12 Awards in State Competitionnew
Colorado Springs Independent |
04-06-2007 11:14 am |
Honors & Achievements
New Editor Named at Colorado Springs Independent
Ralph Routon, 54, a columnist and editor at the Colorado Springs Gazette for 24 years, will return to his adopted hometown to take the position of executive editor at the Pikes Peak region's alternative newspaper. Since leaving the area in 2001, Routon spent the past five years as an editor at daily newspapers in Florida and Texas. He will assume his new position in January, according to a release from the Independent.
(FULL STORY)
Colorado Springs Independent |
12-07-2006 10:50 am |
Press Releases
Colorado Congressional Candidate Places Unusual Ad in Alt-Weeklynew
In a neck-and-neck race for Colorado's 5th Congressional District, Democratic candidate Jay Fawcett took out a full-page ad in the Colorado Springs Independent, the Rocky Mountain News reports. The ad campaign -- one of the biggest campaign expenditures ever by a Democrat in the district, according to the News -- may give Fawcett the edge he needs to wrest away a seat the Republicans have owned since 1972.
Rocky Mountain News |
10-12-2006 1:45 pm |
Industry News
Colorado Springs Independent Offers $1,000 To Replace Managing Editor
Colorado Springs Independent Managing Editor Vanessa Martinez is leaving the paper to help launch the Rocky Mountain Chronicle, an alternative newsweekly scheduled to debut in Fort Collins this October. With her departure, the Independent seeks to fill "one of the most important, challenging and fun jobs in the Pikes Peak region: editor of Colorado's second-largest locally owned media enterprise." Because the paper is hoping to find a new editor with local ties, it is turning to its readership for suggestions. As incentive, the individual "who persuades the right candidate to apply" will be given $1,000. Application information is available on csindy.com.
07-13-2006 8:17 am |
Industry News
Colorado Springs Independent Works With CBS on PTSD Storynew
As the result of a cooperative investigation with the alt-weekly, the "CBS Evening News with Bob Schieffer" aired a series this week about current and former Fort Carson soldiers who claim that the base failed to treat their post-traumatic stress disorder. The CS Independent features its investigation in today's cover story, penned by staff reporter Michael de Yoanna.
Colorado Springs Independent |
07-13-2006 7:43 am |
Industry News
Circulation Software Makes Life Easier at Alt-Weeklies
A recent survey of AAN papers revealed that the applications alt-weeklies are using to track circulation are as diverse as the newspapers themselves. A few papers rely on their in-house wiz for a custom-made program, but for the rest of the industry, a commercial package is the only sophisticated option. Alt-weekly circulation insiders describe their woes, successes, and dreams of better uses for the numbers.
(FULL STORY)
Isaiah Thompson |
03-06-2006 10:53 am |
Association News
Terje Langeland: Googling His Way Into a Web of Connections
You never know where a search engine will lead you. For Terje Langeland, a reporter for the Colorado Springs Independent, it was straight into a web of connections among local people who had backed pro-voucher candidates for the school board and national pro-voucher groups. His award-winning series, "Command Performance," lays out the details. This is the 23rd in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
(FULL STORY)
Lindsay Kishter |
12-06-2005 9:19 pm |
Association News
