March 17:
St. Patrick’s Day social with Sunshine Week tales
Colorado Press Women is planning a Zoom social on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, at 4 p.m. — a chance to chat with other members and share a toast or two without navigating snowy streets or risking a DUI. Because this coincides with Sunshine Week (March 12-18), we’ve also invited Julia Cardi, CPW’s representative to the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition and a reporter for the Denver Gazette, to share some tales of how she’s used the FOI Act. Other reporters are welcome to share their adventures too.
The Zoom link will be shared with all CPW members in good standing a week or two before the event. There’s no charge for this.
Sunshine Week is a nationwide event that raises awareness of the importance of open government and promotes dialogue on the impact of excessive official secrecy.
Ongoing CPW Events
Writers Group
The CPW Writers Group welcomes new members interested in stretching into creative writing, whether it’s fiction, nonfiction, poetry or scripts. We meet on the second Saturday of the month. For details, contact Ann Lockhart.
Past Events:
Capacity crowd enjoys authors at Nov. 4 event
Three diverse authors of thrillers, mysteries and a memoir entertained members of Colorado Press Women and their guests Nov. 4 at their annual authors’ meeting at the Denver Woman’s Press Club’s historic building at 1325 [...]
Fun tour of Pueblo a real mind-changer
Randy Thurston is on a mission to dispel many of the preconceptions about Pueblo, Colo. When asked about what makes his hometown special, the former Pueblo City Councilman easily can come up with more than [...]
Talk covers status of Colorado newspapers
Corey Hutchins came to Colorado Press Women’s May 20 meeting to talk about matters newspapers don’t usually report on. For example: owners who are cutting staff costs and milking the cash out of Colorado newspapers. [...]
Reporter-turned-PIO still promotes open records
Lynn Bartels speaks to CPW. Lynn Bartels fears a legislative attempt to bring Colorado’s Open Records Act into the 21st century has been set up to fail, and that that might lead proponents [...]
Journalists must reclaim, reinforce media’s role
The topic “Restoring Trust in the Media” elicited a lively panel discussion by three university journalism professors, a newspaper editor and a high school journalism teacher, along with members of Colorado Press Women and guests [...]
Meeting the woman who broke The Denver Post’s glass ceiling
The first woman editor of The Denver Post in nearly its 124-year history, Lee Ann Colacioppo, told Colorado Press Women members and guests meeting at the Denver Press Club Sept. 22 that she first got [...]