The Colorado Statesman, long a staple of Colorado political news, launched a new Web site last week, featuring full-text stories and some popular features from its weekly print edition.
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At 110 years old, The Statesman beat us to the scene by, oh, 109 years. But we couldn't be happier to see much of the weekly's content now available online at the paper's re-launched online home, ColoradoStatesman.com.
Jody Hope Strogoff, the paper's publisher, has seen the state's news media grow and change from the inside. "When I started working at The Statesman in the late 1970s, Dick Lamm was just beginning his second term as governor," she told FTS. "We were still using manual typewriters at the office."
The Statesman serves its mission as a non-partisan, insider publication well, as evidenced by this week's coverage of the ongoing kerfuffle over polling and promises in CD 5.
Even with the expanded web presence, we'll be keeping up our subscription for the photo spreads and always-interesting Gossip feature, which continue to only be available to subscribers. (Face it, politicos, you're just looking to see if your name made the cut that week!)
"We've seen a lot of changes in the political landscape since [the 1970's], and also in the way politics is covered by the media," Strogoff said. Her publication isn't alone in its renewed investment in online presentation. The Greeley Tribune and Colorado Daily, among others, have re-launched their sites in recent months.