Fort Collins Coloradoan

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Fort Collins Coloradoan
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

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

Website: Coloradoan.com

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.

1 History
2 Daily paper
3 Business
4 Sports
5 Xplore
6 Coloradoan Connection
7 Extra editions
8 External links
9 Notes

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

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.

[edit] Business

There has been a succession of short-term business editors. ^[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 technology reviews and advice and automobile reviews. 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 Abrams and WorkBytes, a workplace column for Generation X written alternately by Dawn Sagario and Larry Ballard, both of The Des Moines Register.

[edit] 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 University golf, high school golf), Hap Fry (High school sports), Kelly Lyell (Colorado State University Rams men's basketball), Tony Phifer {Colorado State University Rams football) and John Roberts (Colorado Eagles home games and home playoff games).

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.