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Encyclopedia > Fort Collins Coloradoan
Fort Collins Coloradoan

Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet

Owner Gannett
Publisher Christine Chin
Editor Bob Moore
Founded 1873
Political position   Neutral
Headquarters   1300 Riverside Ave.
Fort Collins, CO 80524

Website: Coloradoan.com

The Coloradoan is a daily newspaper in Fort Collins, Colorado. A portion of the paper's newsroom serves as Northern Newsroom for 9News. Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... A gannet Gannett Company, Inc. ... 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calaber). ... Horsetooth Rock, atop Horsetooth Mountain, is often used as a symbol of Fort Collins. ... Official language(s) English Capital Denver Largest city Denver Area  Ranked 8th  - Total 104,185 sq mi (269,837 km²)  - Width 280 miles (451 km)  - Length 380 miles (612 km)  - % water 0. ... K*USA-TV is a television station on VHF Channel 9 (187. ...

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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 a Northern Colorado base of operations for 9News. Reporter Roger Wolfe and his brother, videographer Gary Wolfe, broadcast occasional reports 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 back page is a detailed full-color weather map cobranded with 9News and featuring the likeness of television weatherwoman Kathy Sabine.


"Section B" features local and state legislature news on its front, a half-page of comics paired with a tonight-on-television grid and the local and national business news. Paid obituaries appear on page B2. "Our Neighbors", spotlighting neighborhoods and community members, appears on Tuesdays. "Your Schools", a page devoted to local kindergarten-12th grade education, appears on Thursdays.


Classified advertisements fill the paper's "Section C" on weekdays, though the cover often features one in-depth news package, "Today's Focus" as space allows. Four puzzles also run in "C": Crossword by Eugene Sheffer, Jumble from Tribune Media Services, and sudoku and kakuro, both from United Features Syndicate. On weekends the section is devoted to features: Saturday's "At Home" covers home and gardening advice and features from reporter Miles Blumhardt and wire services and Sunday is an expanded features section with local columnists. The crossword is the most common variety of word puzzle in the world. ... Jumble is the name of a word puzzle where you are given a set of letters which, when arranged in the correct order, give the un-jumbled word. ... A Sudoku puzzle (image hyperlinked to solution). ... Easy Cross Sums puzzle The Cross Sums is a very common type of logic puzzle that is often referred to as a mathematical transliteration of the crossword. ...


Sports fill the first half of the paper's D section, and a features section called "Life" appears from Monday through Saturday in the rear half of the section. Regular features of "Life" include advice columnists Dear Abby and Carolyn Hax, horoscopes by Holiday Mathis and beer columnist Todd Haefer. Dear Abby is the most popular syndicated advice column which was founded in 1956 by Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips and is currently written by her daughter, Abigail Van Buren, also know as Jeanne Phillips. ... Carolyn Hax (born December 5, 1966) is a writer and columnist for the Washington Post and the author of the advice column Tell Me About It. The column is geared toward people under the age of 30, but its readers are not limited to any specific age group. ...


Online

The Coloradoan's website is updated throughout the day with breaking news. It also provides video coverage of community news.


Business

Tom Johnson, former owner of a microcheesery called Bingham Hill Cheese, heads up the paper's business desk following a succession of short-term editors including Bob Mook, Margaret Jackson and Kirsten Orsini-Meinhard. [1]


A four page business section is created in-house, printed in advance and distributed with Sunday's newspaper. It focuses on in-depth business news for consumers, including automobile reviews.


Sports

Sean Duff heads a sports department of two full-time copy editors and four reporter/copy editors.


Beat writers

  • Sean Duff — Colorado State University golf, high school golf
  • Hap Fry — High school sports
  • Kelly Lyell - Colorado State University Rams mens basketball
  • Tony Phifer — Colorado State University Rams football
  • John Roberts — Colorado Eagles home games and home playoff games

Colorado State University Colorado State University is a public land grant institution of higher learning located in Fort Collins, Colorado in the United States. ...

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". November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar with 43 days remaining. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Thomas Sutherland (1834-1922), founder of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. ...


The newspaper also published an extra edition on September, 11, 2001. The explosion resulting from the crashing of United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower. ...


External links

  • Colorado Eagles blog from reporter John J. Roberts
  • Local music scene blog from reporter Stacy Nick

Notes

  1. ^ Coloradoan chooses business editor, Northern Colorado Business Report, April 19, 2006


 
 

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