State Bill Colorado

State Bill Colorado
Type Electronic news service
Owner Circuit Media LLC
Publisher Rebecca Askew
Editor Don Knox[1]
Founded 1989, as Colorado Capitol Connection
Language English
Headquarters 571 Logan St.
Denver, CO 80203
Official website www.statebill.com

State Bill Colorado is an electronic legislative news service based in Denver. It was begun in 1989 and was originally known as Colorado Capitol Connection. The non-partisan news service focuses on the Colorado General Assembly, the state's politicians, government agencies and elected leadership.

Today, State Bill is owned by privately held Circuit Media LLC, which also owns Law Week Colorado[2] and Fresh Magazine. Its website is http://www.statebill.com.

History

Denver businessman Kenton Kuhn[3] founded Colorado Capitol Connection in 1989.

The service was acquired in 2000 by Broomfield-based InsightAmerica, which renamed it StateBillInfo.com. InsightAmerica was subsequently sold to Acxiom Corp. of Little Rock, Ark.[4] StateBillInfo.com was acquired in 2005 by Intellinet Interactive, a private Denver company,[5] and in 2006 by Circuit Media LLC, which adopted the current name.

Through its ownership of State Bill, Circuit Media has worked to expand coverage of Colorado's capitol by new-media organizations.[6][7] It is a member of a nationwide industry trade group, National Online Legislative Associates.[8]

In 2009, State Bill marked its 20th year of service.

On Aug. 31, 2009, State Bill began distributing its content to The Huffington Post through a wire-service arrangement.[9]

References

  1. ^ Smith, Brad; Vásquez, Beverly (16 May 1997). "Don Knox makes leap to entrepreneurial role". http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/1997/05/19/newscolumn6.html. Retrieved 1 September 2009. 
  2. ^ "Law Week: New Legal Newspaper Long Time Coming". May 2003. http://www.denbar.org/docket/doc_articles.cfm?ArticleID=3225. Retrieved 1 September 2009. 
  3. ^ "Nonprofits and Fundraising Events with Kenton Kuhn of Blacktie". 9 September 2008. http://www.robmcnealy.com/nonprofits-and-fundraising-events-with-kenton-kuhn-of-blacktie/. Retrieved 1 September 2009. 
  4. ^ "Acxiom(R) Expands Fraud Prevention, Risk Mitigation Capabilities with Acquisition of InsightAmerica". 10 August 2005. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Acxiom(R)+Expands+Fraud+Prevention,+Risk+Mitigation+Capabilities+with...-a0135005535. Retrieved 1 September 2009. 
  5. ^ "HostWorks buys Intellinet Interactive". 16 August 2005. http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2005/08/15/daily24.html. Retrieved 1 September 2009. 
  6. ^ "Proving Journalism Creds Inspires One Word: Demeaning". 1 September 2008. http://coloradoindependent.com/3193/proving-journalism-creds-inspires-one-word-demeaning. Retrieved 1 September 2009. 
  7. ^ "Circuit Media's Don Knox sees capitol press room as ethical conflict". 5 February 2009. http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2009/02/circuit_medias_don_knox_sees_c.php. Retrieved 1 September 2009. 
  8. ^ "Members, National Online Legislative Associates". Undated. http://www.nolamembers.org/. Retrieved 1 September 2009. 
  9. ^ "News from State Bill Colorado". Huffington Post. Undated. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wires/state-bill-colorado/. Retrieved 1 September 2009. 

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