Colorado River Collaborative
In late April 2024, the Institute for Land, Water, and Air launched the Colorado River Collaborative, a statewide media group to help train, inform, and support news organizations in telling solutions-focused, local-perspective stories on the Colorado River. The group’s mission is to significantly expand Utah-based coverage of this critical water basin.
Newsroom Members
The collaborative’s emphasis is on exploring the importance of the river and the impacts of its decline on Utahns. As a solutions journalism initiative, the 11-member newsrooms will pool resources for more in-depth coverage of the Colorado River. Collaborative stories will also explain what can be done to adapt to the new realities facing the river, what actions are being taken, and why.
- Deseret News
- Fox 13
- KSL.com
- KSL TV
- KUER
- Moab Times-Independent
- PBS Utah
- RadioWest
- The Salt Lake Tribune
- St. George News
- Utah Public Radio
The Institute for Land, Water, and Air operates as a collaborative education partner, connecting reporters to resources for content creation. All editorial decisions are made independently by each member news organization in accordance with their respective editorial policies.
This new collaborative is based on the previous success of the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, which has been responsible for much of the local and shared coverage of Great Salt Lake since it was launched in 2022. Since its founding, the Great Salt Lake Collaborative members have produced more than 600 stories and articles about the Great Salt Lake, exploring issues like why it is shrinking, the impacts of its decline to public health, the lake’s ecology, its impact on our economy, and potential solutions to get more water to the lake. The Great Salt Lake Collaborative has even received national recognition for its model of sharing stories across newsrooms, focusing on solutions, and catalyzing cross-newsroom reporting projects.