Fort Collins Coloradoan
Encyclopedia
The Coloradoan is a daily newspaper
in Fort Collins
, Colorado
. The Coloradoan's website is updated throughout the day with breaking news and video coverage of community news. A portion of the paper's newsroom serves as Northern Newsroom for 9News
.
In 2004, Gannett began construction on a new $6 million facility on property adjacent to their Riverside site. In June 2005, advertising, circulation, human resources, news and technology staffs moved into 1300 Riverside Ave. The 30-year old printing press remains at 1212 Riverside Ave.
The new facility includes the Northern Colorado Bureau for KUSA-TV
(9NEWS) who is also owned by Gannett. Reporter Adam Chodak and photojournalist Gary Wolfe occasionally report from the building.
"Section B" features lifestyles content with themed pages dictating coverage. Monday is health and fitness; Tuesday is shopping; Wednesday is food and cooking. Thursday is pets and animals; Fridays is movies and new releases; Saturdays is home and garden; Sundays is a "wild-card" day with anything from religion to cooking being featured, along with Kathleen Duff's On Family column. Comics and TV listings are found on pages B2 and B3, local calendars on page B4 and some days a family page with family-related calendars and columnists. The obituaries, crime reports and more are found in the "B" section. The back page is a detailed full-color weather map cobranded with 9News and featuring the likeness of television weatherwoman Kathy Sabine.
Sports fill the paper's "C" section and covers both local prep, CSU and semi-pro teams around the area as well as Denver pro teams and national sports.
Classified advertisements fill the paper's "Section D". Four puzzles also run in "D": Crossword
by Eugene Sheffer, Jumble
from Tribune Media Services, and sudoku
and kakuro
, both from United Features Syndicate.
and WorkBytes, a workplace column for Generation X
written alternately by Dawn Sagario and Larry Ballard, both of The Des Moines Register
.
golf, high school golf), Hap Fry (High school sports), Kelly Lyell (Colorado State University Rams men's basketball and football).
The newspaper also published an extra edition on September 11, 2001
.
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
in Fort Collins
Fort Collins, Colorado
Fort Collins is a Home Rule Municipality situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, and is the county seat and most populous city of Larimer County, Colorado, United States. Fort Collins is located north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. With a 2010 census...
, Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
. The Coloradoan's website is updated throughout the day with breaking news and video coverage of community news. A portion of the paper's newsroom serves as Northern Newsroom for 9News
KUSA-TV
KUSA, channel 9, is an NBC-affiliated television station in Denver, Colorado. KUSA is owned by the Gannett Company, and is a sister station to MyNetworkTV affiliate KTVD...
.
History
It was founded by Joseph L. McClelland in 1873 as Larimer County Express. Fort Collins Newspapers Inc. was established in 1937 when Speidel Newspapers acquired the publication known as The Express-Courier. The Coloradoan moved from its Old Town Fort Collins location to 1212 Riverside Ave. on the city's east side in 1974. Gannett acquired the newspaper when it merged with Speidel in 1977.In 2004, Gannett began construction on a new $6 million facility on property adjacent to their Riverside site. In June 2005, advertising, circulation, human resources, news and technology staffs moved into 1300 Riverside Ave. The 30-year old printing press remains at 1212 Riverside Ave.
The new facility includes the Northern Colorado Bureau for KUSA-TV
KUSA-TV
KUSA, channel 9, is an NBC-affiliated television station in Denver, Colorado. KUSA is owned by the Gannett Company, and is a sister station to MyNetworkTV affiliate KTVD...
(9NEWS) who is also owned by Gannett. Reporter Adam Chodak and photojournalist Gary Wolfe occasionally report from the building.
Daily paper
The Coloradoan focuses on local news on the covers of its first two sections. The "A" section's interior includes nation and world news and an opinion page. The cover of the second "A" section features business stories, both local and national."Section B" features lifestyles content with themed pages dictating coverage. Monday is health and fitness; Tuesday is shopping; Wednesday is food and cooking. Thursday is pets and animals; Fridays is movies and new releases; Saturdays is home and garden; Sundays is a "wild-card" day with anything from religion to cooking being featured, along with Kathleen Duff's On Family column. Comics and TV listings are found on pages B2 and B3, local calendars on page B4 and some days a family page with family-related calendars and columnists. The obituaries, crime reports and more are found in the "B" section. The back page is a detailed full-color weather map cobranded with 9News and featuring the likeness of television weatherwoman Kathy Sabine.
Sports fill the paper's "C" section and covers both local prep, CSU and semi-pro teams around the area as well as Denver pro teams and national sports.
Classified advertisements fill the paper's "Section D". Four puzzles also run in "D": Crossword
Crossword
A crossword is a word puzzle that normally takes the form of a square or rectangular grid of white and shaded squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers. In languages that are written left-to-right, the answer...
by Eugene Sheffer, Jumble
Jumble
Jumble is a word puzzle with a clue, a drawing illustrating the clue, and a set of words, each of which is “jumbled” by permuting its letters to make an anagram. A solver reconstructs the words, then arranges letters at marked positions in the words to spell the answer to the clue...
from Tribune Media Services, and sudoku
Sudoku
is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 sub-grids that compose the grid contains all of the digits from 1 to 9...
and kakuro
Cross Sums
Kakuro or Kakkuro is a kind of logic puzzle that is often referred to as a mathematical transliteration of the crossword. Kakuro puzzles are regular features in many math-and-logic puzzle publications in the United States...
, both from United Features Syndicate.
Business
What was once a single page on the back of the "B" section, has turned into a four-page spread in the second "A" section. Each day is filled with local content, wire content and a small sampling of local stocks. The section features Katy Piotrowski's "On the job' column for those looking to find or change jobs or careers, "Small business" by syndicated columnist Rhonda AbramsRhonda Abrams
Rhonda Abrams is an American small business expert, syndicated columnist, best-selling author and speaker.-Biography:Abrams was born in Los Angeles, CA and earned degrees from both UCLA and Harvard. She has advised, mentored and consulted entrepreneurs and small business owners since 1986...
and WorkBytes, a workplace column for Generation X
Generation X
Generation X, commonly abbreviated to Gen X, is the generation born after the Western post–World War II baby boom ended. While there is no universally agreed upon time frame, the term generally includes people born from the early 1960's through the early 1980's, usually no later than 1981 or...
written alternately by Dawn Sagario and Larry Ballard, both of The Des Moines Register
Des Moines Register
The Des Moines Register is the daily morning newspaper of Des Moines, Iowa, in the United States. A separate edition of the Register is sold throughout much of Iowa.-History:...
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Sports
Sean Duff heads a sports department of two full-time copy editors and four reporter/copy editors. The staff includes Sean Duff (Colorado State UniversityColorado State University
Colorado State University is a public research university located in Fort Collins, Colorado. The university is the state's land grant university, and the flagship university of the Colorado State University System.The enrollment is approximately 29,932 students, including resident and...
golf, high school golf), Hap Fry (High school sports), Kelly Lyell (Colorado State University Rams men's basketball and football).
Xplore
Since 2000, reporter Miles Blumhardt has written a Sunday section, Xplore, on outdoor adventure topics. The 4-page section debuted on high-quality paper, but converted to standard newsprint six years later as a cost-saving measure. "Trippin'," the section's back page finds Blumhardt, other staffers or readers writing about a recent adventure and sharing photos from the trip. The series is also presented in video.Coloradoan Connection
A free weekly shopper, Coloradoan Connection, contains repurposed material from the newspaper and is delivered to non-subscribers bundled with full-color advertising inserts.Extra editions
The Coloradoan printed an extra November 18, 1991, upon the release of Beirut hostage Thomas Sutherland, a Fort Collins resident. The Coloradoan's banner headline read "He's Free".The newspaper also published an extra edition on September 11, 2001
September 11, 2001 attacks
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