Colorado Press Women
Serving Colorado communicators with professional development, networking, recognition and advocacy since 1941.
Next Event
Movie night: View and discuss documentary on demise of local papers
Join Colorado Press Women to watch the Rocky Mountain PBS documentary News Matters at 7 p.m. June 18 at the home of Sandy Graham in Columbine Valley. For more information, click here.
Summer getaway to honor CPW’s 80th anniversary
Colorado Press Women’s summer getaway will fete the past and celebrate the present with a two-day excursion to Canon City and Alamosa July 30 and 31. CPW is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year by visiting newspapers that employed or were owned by our charter members. For more information, click here.
CPW has developed a resource the general public can use to help sort fact from fiction: Tips for Spotting Misinformation. Please share with your contacts.
The 2021 NFPW contests for professional communicators and high school students are open for entries. See links under “Recognition” on toolbar.
What’s Happening:
CPW members score four firsts in national contest
Colorado Press Women members fared even better than previous years in the national contest of the National Federation of Press Women when the results were announced virtually June 11 during the annual conference -- [...]
Stories shared of foreign troublemaking
Iran has spoofed the Proud Boys. Chinese disinformation called into question the efficacy and safety of the Pfizer vaccine. As far back as the 1980s when Putin was in the KGB, Russia fabricated “Operation [...]
Karen Pochert Petersen, Colorado 2021 Communicator of Achievement
When the highest level of government was intent on suppressing the truth about the environmental damage inflicted by the actions of humankind, forbidding phrases such as “climate change,” “global warming,” carbon footprint,” and “greenhouse [...]
Dis-/mis-information panel wows attendees. Listen for yourself.
By Sandy Graham When your Auntie Alice starts sharing conspiracy theories on social media, do you go ballistic and demand to know where she got these cockamamie ideas? Fire back with the truth? Shaming [...]