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@daveburdick.bsky.social

• Newsroom strategy at @theajp.bsky.social • Denver, Colorado • Healthier communities through healthier relationships with local information and news providers • I share interesting things that local news orgs are doing

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Cómo los inmigrantes latinos reinventan el Día de Acción de Gracias en EE.UU. - Documented Desde pavos enchilados hasta tamales, los inmigrantes fusionan sus tradiciones culturales con la celebración del Día de Acción de Gracias.

Cómo los inmigrantes latinos reinventan el Día de Acción de Gracias en EE.UU. - Documented documentedny.com/2025/12/01/c...

10.12.2025 14:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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She won a $56M fight for a Westwood rec center. Here’s what it looks like Construction is well underway in the neighborhood, and a ten-year fight for a pool gets its due.

She won a $56M fight for a Westwood rec center. Here’s what it looks like denverite.com/2025/12/09/w...

10.12.2025 14:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You asked if Denver really recycles. We took a tour to find out Put on your hard hats.

I really love a caption like "Denverite reader Sarah Garrett watches as a freshly minted cube of cardboard is extruded from a machine" ... Denverite readers kept asking if recycling is real, so Denverite took readers to see.

09.12.2025 18:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Classic Denver Mexican Restaurant Is Officially Gone for Good Fans had been holding out hope for a comeback.

Ugh, Benny's

www.westword.com/food-drink/c...

09.12.2025 15:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pika populations appear to be declining in a specific area recently studied, which could signal pretty bad news for alpine climates in the Rockies

09.12.2025 14:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We regret to inform you another phase of DIA Great Hall construction has begun. Here’s how it will look South Security will close and become “The Living Room.”

People didn't like it when I tried to nickname this the "great hell" project. In 2020. But hey it looks like it might be done in 2027!

21.02.2025 14:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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These streets received the most parking tickets in Boyle Heights More than 55,000 parking tickets were issued in 2024. Here’s a breakdown of the top violations and hotspots in Boyle Heights.

Great idea from Boyle Heights Beat — which streets received the most parking tickets in the neighborhood:

20.02.2025 17:58 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Summer internship will give students hands-on experience with Greenlawn project The city of Indianapolis will hire student interns to work alongside field experts on the city’s Greenlawn Cemetery project.

One of the wildest/most fascinating internships I have ever heard of (read Mirror Indy's great previous coverage for the context) — Greenlawn Cemetery is focus of new Indianapolis summer internship on archaeology

20.02.2025 15:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Social service agencies spending hours finding those who need shelter from the cold “We’re not just driving down streets and seeing people on sidewalks. We’re walking into encampments in the middle of the night, in the snow, in this weather.”

Walking around the frozen (and empty) downtown Tulsa arts district yesterday, I saw a clearly abandoned set of belongings and wondered about this — Tulsa social service agencies spending hours finding those who need shelter from the cold

20.02.2025 14:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Democratic state senator abruptly resigns amid ethics investigation State Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis was being investigated for alleged mistreatment of her legislative aides

Democratic state senator abruptly resigns amid ethics investigation

18.02.2025 14:07 — 👍 24    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 4
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Under Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan, Some Migrants Are Being Sent to Panama The administration has asked Panama to take in hundreds of people who can’t easily be sent back to their countries. Many say they are in danger.

breathtaking.

18.02.2025 14:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I really can’t say enough about how cool this is – it’s a local news org that started the way we all know they should start, with hundreds of locals telling us what they need and building from there. I’m psyched – tell your friends! www.localnewsfortulsa.org

12.12.2024 13:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Audience and Membership Director | Jobs | Tulsa Local News Initiative We’re hiring! The Tulsa Local News Initiative is looking for an Audience and Membership Director who is passionate about the future of Tulsa and local journalism.

Audience and membership is an exciting and expanding part of the local nonprofit journalism universe, and this director role will have a hand in shaping strategy and tactics in Tulsa – with access to best practices and learnings from peers in other cities www.localnewsfortulsa.org/jobs/audienc...

12.12.2024 13:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Documenters Assignment Editor | Jobs | Tulsa Local News Initiative We’re hiring! The Tulsa Local News Initiative is looking for a Documenters Assignment Editor who is passionate about the future of Tulsa and local journalism.

If you’ve been following me here, you’ve seen some of my excitement for the work that can be produced in collaboration between the @documenters.bsky.social program and newsrooms. Tulsa needs someone to own that work, too www.localnewsfortulsa.org/jobs/documen...

12.12.2024 13:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Looking for reporting jobs positioned to make a difference in people’s lives? The initiative is hiring for a government reporter, a cost of living reporter, a health and healthy living reporter, communities reporters and general assignment reporters www.localnewsfortulsa.org/jobs

12.12.2024 13:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Oklahoma Eagle Editor | Jobs | Tulsa Local News Initiative We’re hiring! The Oklahoma Eagle is looking for an Editor who is passionate about the future of Tulsa and local journalism.

For the last few years, Gary’s been editing the Oklahoma Eagle – it’s been in publication for 102 years, starting just after the Tulsa Race Massacre – and he’ll need someone new to take on that vital and exciting role, overseeing the Eagle’s expansion. www.localnewsfortulsa.org/jobs/oklahom...

12.12.2024 13:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Managing Editor | Jobs | Tulsa Local News Initiative We’re hiring! The Tulsa Local News Initiative is looking for a Managing Editor who is passionate about the future of Tulsa and local journalism.

Gary’s going to lead an amazing newsroom in Tulsa – and you can help him do it as Managing Editor of the Tulsa Local News Initiative. This is a big, thrilling #journalism #job at a well-resourced nonprofit news startup. www.localnewsfortulsa.org/jobs/news-ed...

12.12.2024 13:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 7
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Award-winning Oklahoma journalist Gary Lee to lead the Tulsa Local News Initiative | What's New | Tulsa Local News Initiative Written on Dec 11, 2024 |

I can’t believe that we can announce about 20 new opportunities to bolster the local news ecosystem in Tulsa today. The Tulsa Local News Initiative is here, with a new newsroom led by award-winning journalist Gary Lee.

12.12.2024 13:33 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Imagine if you could strengthen existing newsrooms *and* start a new local newsroom fueled by hundreds of locals’ insights about their information needs and lengthy research into the local information economy.

That’s what’s happening in #Tulsa right now: www.localnewsfortulsa.org

12.12.2024 13:32 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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good news: the Antiques Roadshow filmed in Denver (ok, ok, Littleton) will air March 24, 31 and April 7.

you may have read our story where we brought Rocky the Raccoon to Roadshow to explain the antiquing process. if you haven’t, read that here: denverite.com/2024/05/30/d...

04.12.2024 23:20 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Do consumer protection laws apply to literacy instruction? This lawsuit says yes. Two Massachusetts families say Lucy Calkins, other literacy specialists, and their publisher willfully ignored heaps of research that their methods for teaching reading were shoddy, then charging for ...

A class action lawsuit charges literacy instruction giants Lucy Calkins, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell with deceptive marking practices. This is probably the first time a consumer protection approach has been taken to an education policy debate.

www.chalkbeat.org/2024/12/04/l...

05.12.2024 00:13 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Xcel Energy wants to charge more for electricity later in the evening The utility would extend its most expensive time-of-use rate from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the summer and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the winter.

It's the simple things... Like headlines that don't use utility jargon. This one just says it in plain language so anyone can understand why the story is relevant to them.

That said, @sambrasch.bsky.social, I do want credit for reading this during super-off-peak hours.

04.12.2024 13:30 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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How the investigation of the fatal shooting of Jazmir Tucker unfold? How will the process unfold that will investigate the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Jazmir Tucker by an Akron police officer?

After police shot and killed a 15-year-old, Signal #Akron produced an accessible explainer on how the law says the incident will be investigated, along with context on how that process has changed recently

02.12.2024 15:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Safe Park Indy will open a second lot for people in their car Safe Park Indy opened its first lot in October and already has 350 people on the waitlist.

Here's a @tyfenwick.bsky.social / Mirror Indy story that gives: a quick understanding of the scale of a civic challenge, an example of an attempt at alleviating it, how to get help if you're affected, how to give help if you can, and a link to an investigative series. Under 450 words.

02.12.2024 14:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mystical pink light over Denver is just the Broncos growing grass The football stadium's new grow lights have mystified Denver residents.

It's fine, mystical pink light over Denver nothing to worry about, @zialcita.bsky.social says

29.11.2024 14:12 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
A screenshot of MirrorIndy.org shows headlines including "Help pack meals for Ukrainian families affected by war"

A screenshot of MirrorIndy.org shows headlines including "Help pack meals for Ukrainian families affected by war"

I love that the Mirror Indy site has its gift guide up, but also multiple ways to help other people in #Indianapolis via @enriquesaenz.bsky.social, like "How to help Santa fulfill an Indiana child's wishlist" https://buff.ly/4eTFZVj

28.11.2024 15:11 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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AI tools powering innovation in Technical.ly’s newsroom Technical.ly editor Danya Henninger shares several ways newsrooms can incorporate AI tools in their workflows.

Short and approachable look at stuff @phillydesign.bsky.social and Technical.ly are doing with AI in a local newsroom:

https://buff.ly/3VakuZt

28.11.2024 14:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

anyone who lives here.

somewhat more controversially, I personally would comfortably apply it to anyone who identifies as such because they feel like they're part of the greater Denver metropolitan gravity well in their work/live/play routines.

28.11.2024 13:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"just ask" is an awesome policy

28.11.2024 00:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🫡 I had been getting ready to post the earlier one when I saw the new one!

27.11.2024 22:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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