“The news gods provided us with a lot of reporting opportunities — good and bad — that resonated with people.” That’s the reason Colorado Sun editor Dana Coffield gives for her nonprofit news site’s strong traffic performance in January. Traffic was up 53% from the month before, according to estimates from Similarweb, going from 1.24 million to 1.9 million visits.
The site’s most successful stories in January were a very Colorado mix: a dispute over clearing forest land to build a road to 19 proposed luxury homes; a solo hiker killed by two yearling mountain lions; an Air Force captain setting a skydiving-in-formation world record (104 people!); and a local lawyer’s proposal to rename dozens of Colorado mountains. (Many of them to light-related names — ROYGBIV Peak! — and seven to each of the deadly sins. Damned Colorado bureaucrats, denying the people the chance to climb Lust Peak.)
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