I had spent time in Denver in 2016 because I had won an award from the Colorado Press Association. The threadbare state of the local press was immediately apparent, especially at the Denver Post, a 125-year-old paper that had once been the flagship of the Singleton chain and had won nine Pulitzers. Since Alden had purchased the paper five years earlier, its newsroom had shriveled. When I met the investigations editor, a young woman in her early 20s, she told me in hushed tones that she had no staff to assign projects to, despite a rash of local corruption cases.
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