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Our Mission
The Colorado Sun is a journalist-founded, award-winning and nonprofit 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 cover everything from politics and culture to the outdoor industry and education.
Our goal is to produce the best possible journalism. We do that with the help of you, our readers, and community backers.
We launched on Sept. 10, 2018.
Who We Are
The Colorado Sun is made up of staff writers, editors, photographers and producers.
They are:
Larry Ryckman, Editor | larry@coloradosun.com
Dana Coffield, Senior Editor | dana@coloradosun.com
Lance Benzel, Team Editor | lance@coloradosun.com
David Krause, Team Editor | davidkrause@coloradosun.com
Jesse Paul, Political Editor and Writer | jesse@coloradosun.com
Brian Eason, Political Writer | brian@coloradosun.com
Jennifer Brown, Government/Human Services Writer | jennifer@coloradosun.com
Tatiana Flowers, Inequality/General Assignment Writer | tatiana@coloradosun.com
Jason Blevins, Outdoors/Business Writer | jason@coloradosun.com
Tamara Chuang, Business/Technology Writer | tamara@coloradosun.com
Tracy Ross, Rural Economic Development Writer | tracy@coloradosun.com
Erica Breunlin, Education Writer | erica@coloradosun.com
John Ingold, Health/Criminal Justice Writer | johningold@coloradosun.com
Michael Booth, Health/Environmental Writer | booth@coloradosun.com
Shannon Mullane, Water Writer | shannon@coloradosun.com
Kevin Simpson, Colorado Lifestyle/General Assignment Writer/Editor | kevin@coloradosun.com
Olivia Prentzel, General Assignment Writer | oliviaprentzel@coloradosun.com
Parker Yamasaki, Arts & Culture Writer, Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellow | parker@coloradosun.com
Eric Lubbers, Technology & Strategy | eric@coloradosun.com
Danika Worthington, Presentation Editor | danika@coloradosun.com
Olivia Sun, Photographer | oliviasun@coloradosun.com
Hugh Carey, Photographer | hugh@coloradosun.com
Kevin Jeffers, Product Producer | kevinjeffers@coloradosun.com
For information on how to support The Colorado Sun, reach out to our business development team:
Sylvia Harmon, Director of Sales | sylvia@coloradosun.com
Caleb Hardy, Sales Associate | caleb@coloradosun.com
Lauren Whynott, Director of Membership, Marketing & Audience Engagement | lauren@coloradosun.com
Kristina Pritchett, Marketing and Events Specialist | kristina@coloradosun.com
Contact us
For readers with membership questions, general inquiries, tips or correction requests:
For help regarding your membership or account, please email support@coloradosun.com.
To reach our newsroom with general inquiries, you can send an email to newsroom@coloradosun.com. You can also call us at (720) 263-2338.
Send tips to tips@coloradosun.com. You can also reach us via Signal, WhatsApp or voicemail: (720) 263-2338.
The Colorado Sun has an ethical responsibility to correct all factual errors. To request a correction, please send an email to corrections@coloradosun.com. Read more about our correction process.
For letters:
Our mailing address is: The Colorado Sun, Buell Public Media Center, 2101 Arapahoe St., Denver, CO 80205.
For underwriting and events:
Anyone interested in advertising or sponsorships can reach us at underwriting@coloradosun.com.
Event inquiries can be sent to events@coloradosun.com.
For freelancing:
The Sun also employs several contributing writers and photographers across the state. If you’re interested in working with us, please send clips and a resume to dana@coloradosun.com.
How we are funded
As of Nov. 15, 2023, The Colorado Sun is a 501(c)3 nonprofit. Prior, we were a public benefit corporation, which meant we were a for-profit company incorporated with a mission. Our mission remains unchanged: To provide our community with quality, nonpartisan journalism — and no paywall. To read our most recent annual report, please visit coloradosun.com/annualreport. (Here are our past reports: 2019, 2020/2021)
The majority of The Sun’s funding comes directly from reader memberships, with additional revenue from donors, business sponsorships, events and grants. More on how we accept sponsorships and our transparency rules can be found in our ethics policy.
Every dollar we take in goes directly toward the journalism we produce. Period. That’s our promise to our readers — along with striving to make sure each and every one of our stories are worth your time. Join us today.
The Colorado Sun can now accept tax-deductible contributions.
We were fortunate to find partners interested in creating a new model for local journalism. Civil helped The Colorado Sun get started with some financial and technical backing. We no longer are partnered with them.
To become a sponsor, email sylvia@coloradosun.com.
To learn more about membership, visit our membership page or email lauren@coloradosun.com.
Read more about how The Sun is funded.
Ethics policy
To view our ethics policy, visit coloradosun.com/ethics.
Commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
The Colorado Sun is committed to the work of fighting racism, bigotry and exclusion, and to promoting a more just and equitable world. Read our statement codifying that commitment, which includes actionable goals to hold us accountable.
SunLit
Through a feature we call SunLit, done in partnership with Colorado Humanities & Center for the Book, The Colorado Sun will present current excerpts of works from some of the best Colorado fiction and nonfiction writers — always for free. We offer these literary appetizers, as well as author Q&As to lend context to the selections, as part of our mission to reinforce our shared sense of community, and to perhaps introduce readers to a new favorite writer.
To learn more, visit coloradosun.com/about-sunlit.
Opinion columns
The Colorado Sun is a nonpartisan news organization, and the opinions of columnists and editorial writers do not reflect the opinions of the newsroom.
We label opinion pieces (including cartoons) prominently, using the clearest words possible to note that they are separate from news coverage. This includes when we post links to opinion pieces on social media accounts.
For more on how we will handle opinion pieces, see our ethics policy.
If you are interested in sending a guest column to be considered for publication, check out our submission guidelines. Submissions must be 800 words or less and should be sent to opinion@coloradosun.com.
Annual reports
In our previous designation as a public benefit corporation, we were required by state law to produce an annual report detailing the value we have brought to the community. It also required us to conduct an assessment of how we were doing against an independent standard. Read our reports.
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