Our Mission
The broadside was America's first news medium. Before newspapers, before pamphlets, before the printing press reached every town, there were broadsides — single sheets of ink on paper, posted in public squares, read aloud in taverns, passed hand to hand through communities that needed to know what was happening and why it mattered. Thomas Paine's Common Sense began as a broadside. The Declaration of Independence was first distributed as one. When something needed to be said and heard, it was set in type and pressed into paper.
Broadside News Group carries that tradition forward. We publish independent local journalism across more than sixty news sites — from the neighborhoods of Denver, where we were founded, to communities in twenty-seven states. Each of our publications serves a specific place or subject. Each operates with editorial independence. And each is bound by the same commitment: that the people who live in a community deserve honest, thorough, accountable reporting about the forces that shape their lives.
We believe local news is not a commodity. It is a public good — and its disappearance from American life over the past two decades has been one of the most consequential and least discussed failures of our time. Broadside News Group exists to rebuild what was lost.
The Network
Our publications are organized into three divisions, each serving a distinct editorial mission:
Our home territory. These publications cover Denver's neighborhoods, Colorado politics, education policy, and community affairs with the depth and persistence that only local presence makes possible. Anchor publications include the North Denver Tribune, The Cherry Creek News, and North Denver News.
From the Daily Florida Press to the Keystone Gazette, from the Gotham Weekly to the Angelino News — our state and regional publications bring the Broadside commitment to local accountability journalism to communities across the country. Each publication is named for its state or city and built to serve the people who live there.
Vertical publications covering politics, law, health, technology, labor, food systems, and sports with national scope and specialist depth. Publications include the Daily Political Press, Daily Legal Press, and Business Technology World.
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Our Principles
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. Thomas Jefferson, 1787
Editorial independence. Each Broadside publication operates under shared editorial standards. The publisher does not endorse candidates through its publications. Our editorial standards are public and binding.
Transparency. We publish our ownership and funding structure because readers have a right to know who stands behind the news they read. We maintain a public corrections policy because accountability begins at home.
Local presence. Journalism without proximity is commentary. Our publications are rooted in the places they cover — not parachuting in for the crisis and leaving when the cameras move on.
Accessibility. The news should be available to everyone, not locked behind paywalls that make information a luxury good. The majority of our journalism is published free and open.
Read our complete Editorial Standards, Diversity Commitment, and Ownership Disclosure.
