List of newspapers in Colorado

This is a list of newspapers in Colorado. According to the Library of Congress, over 2,500 newspapers have been published in Colorado. The first documented newspaper was the Rocky Mountain Gold Reporter and Mountain City Herald, which was published by T. Gibson in 1859 in Mountain City, Colorado.^[1]

Daily and weekly newspapers (currently published in Colorado)[]

Larger newspapers (listed by total average paid daily circulation as of 30 September 2012^[2] 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 (listed alphabetically)[]

— La Junta
Akron News-Reporter — Akron (weekly)
Aspen Daily News — Aspen
The Aspen Times - Aspen
Aurora Sentinel — Aurora
— Las Animas
— Berthoud
BizWest — Boulder
Boulder Weekly — Boulder (weekly)
— Brighton
Broomfield Enterprise — Broomfield (semi-weekly)
Brush News-Tribune — Brush (weekly)
Burlington Record — Burlington (weekly)
Canyon Courier — Conifer (weekly)
— Center
— Castle Pines (monthly)
— Buena Vista
— Trinidad
Colorado Daily — Boulder
Colorado Hometown Weekly — east Boulder County (free weekly)
— Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs Independent — Colorado Springs (weekly)
Colorado Sun — Colorado (on-line)
— Commerce City
— Conejos County
— Craig
— Crested Butte
The Crystal Valley Echo — Marble, Colorado
— Delta
Denver Business Journal — Denver
The Denver North Star — Denver
— Parker
— Castle Rock
— Dove Creek, Dolores County
— Durango
— Eagle
— Fountain
Estes Park Trail-Gazette — Estes Park (weekly)
— Bailey and Fairplay
— Fort Lupton
Fort Morgan Times — Fort Morgan
— Fowler
— Denver, Glendale
Gorizont — Denver (Russian)
— Greeley
Gunnison Country Times — Gunnison
— Haxtun
— Leadville
High Country News — Paonia (semi-monthly)
Intermountain Jewish News — Denver (weekly)
— Johnstown
— Cortez, Dolores, and Mancos
Journal-Advocate — Sterling
Julesburg Advocate — Julesburg (weekly)
— Eads
La Junta Tribune Democrat — La Junta
— Denver (Spanish)
— Denver (Bilingual weekly)
Lamar Ledger — Lamar (weekly)
Law Week Colorado — Denver (weekly)
— Capitol Hill
— Lyons
The Metropolitan — Metropolitan State University of Denver
— University of Northern Colorado
— Monte Vista
— Montrose
— Montrose
— Nederland
— Woodland Park (weekly)
— Salida
— Denver
— Wellington
— Eaton
Ouray County Plaindealer — Ouray (weekly)
- El Paso County (monthly)
Out Front Colorado — Denver (bi-weekly)
— Pagosa Springs
— Teller County
— Bayfield
— Glenwood Springs and Rifle
- Lyons, Colorado (Monthly)
— Meeker Rangely
The Rocky Mountain Collegian — Fort Collins
Saguache Crescent — Saguache
— Westcliffe (weekly)
— Silverton
— Granby
— Snowmass
Steamboat Pilot & Today — Steamboat Springs
Summit Daily News — Frisco
Telluride Daily Planet — Telluride
— Carbondale
— Telluride
— Monument, Woodmore, and Gleneagle
Vail Daily — Vail
— Alamosa
— Greenwood Village
— Denver (monthly)
— Colorado Springs
Westword — Denver (weekly)
— Westcliffe
— Windsor
— Walsenburg
— Erie

Defunct newspapers[]

— Denver
Animas Forks Pioneer — Animas Forks (1882–1886)^[3]
— Denver
— Boulder
(weekly; July 10, 1996 - February 16, 2000) - Boulder^[4]^[5]^[6]
— Brighton
The Campus Press — University of Colorado at Boulder
— Cañon City
Colorado Springs Sun
The Colorado Statesman — Denver
— Pueblo^[7]
Denver Daily News
— Denver
The Denver Times (1872-1926)
Erie Echo (weekly; Dec. 1977-1980)^[8]
— Grand Junction
— Lafayette
— Leadville
— Denver (daily)
Louisville Times — Louisville
�� Elizabeth
— Golden
— Craig
Mountain Valley News — Cedaredge
Northern Colorado Business Report — Fort Collins
— Pagosa Springs
- Pueblo (democratic evening paper, end of 19th century)
— Rico
Rocky Mountain News — Denver
Rolling Stock — Boulder
Superior Observer — Superior
— Trinidad^[9]
— Greeley
— Vail

References[]

^ "Colorado newspapers". Library of Congress. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
^ "Audit Bureau of Circulation". Archived from the original on 2013-03-17. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
^ "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 La cucaracha. (Pueblo, Colo.) 1976-198?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
^ "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] "Audit Bureau of Circulation". Archived from the original on 2013-03-17. Retrieved 2011-11-30.

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

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

[5] "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.

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

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

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

[9] 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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