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Fort Collins Now 400 Remington St. Suite B, Fort Collins, CO 80524 (970) 493-1011

First publication: August 3rd, 2007.

Formerly the Fort Collins Weekly, Fort Collins Now boasts an award-winning staff, including two nationally recognized authors.

Voted one of America's Best Places to live in it's demographic, Fort Collins, Colorado is nestled along the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Camping, mountain biking and white water rafting are only minutes away.

Residents of Fort Collins are environmentally conscious. Fitness and the outdoors are important topics in the community.

Fort Collins Now is distributed every Wednesday and Saturday.

The staff of Fort Collins Now was recently recognized for it's excellent reporting at the Society of Professional Journalists, Colorado Chapter awards ceremony.

First Place, Investigative/Enterprise Reporting

First Place, General News Reporting in a series or package

First Place, Reader

First Place, News Reporting single story

First Place, News Feature

Second Place, News Feature

Second Place, General News Reporting in a series or package

Second Place, News Reporting single story

Second Place, Political Reporting

Third Place, Reader

Third Place, Personal Column


The editorial staff of Fort Collins Now won 11 top honors April 11th, 2008 at
the Colorado Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional
Journalists’ annual awards banquet, more than any other local newspaper that
entered the contest. Among the honors were five first place awards.

FCN Managing Editor Andra Coberly won first place in the
investigative/enterprise category for “Gone with the Wind,” an article that
revealed Fort Collins’ wind power program wasn’t actually producing wind
power, but paying for out-of-state projects that refused to account for the
money local subscribers were giving them.

“Coberly asked the right questions,” wrote Judge William Douglas, an SPJ
member from Kennewick, Wash. “Instead of writing just another pro-wind
energy story, she focused on how a system designed to promote development of
new sources of power generation has turned into a revenue generating system.
The story helped show that the opportunity ended up being a winner takes
all, with the environmental being short-changed. Nice bit of seeing through
the smoke and mirrors.”

Editor-in-chief Greg Campbell won first place in three categories: News
reporting, single story; general reporting, series or package; and the
reader category, which is awarded to articles that tell an entertaining
story and are enjoyable to read.

The news reporting award was for “The Sound of Silence,” a short story about
the military funeral of a local soldier killed in Iraq. Douglas said,
“Greg’s crafted writing conveys to the reader the sadness and honor of a
military funeral with a realness that’s rarely felt short of being there.”

The general reporting in a series or package award was for Campbell’s
continuing coverage of the Tim Masters’ case, which the judge called “a
compelling, well-written series of stories that ask significant questions
about the criminal justice system.”

The reader citation was for Campbell’s regular “Notebook” column.

Freelance reporter Sara Behunek won first place in the news feature category
for her article about a Fort Collins street preacher who walked to
Washington D.C. in protest of the U.S. war in Iraq. Douglas said the story
was, “A well-written, thoughtful study of the kind of person many people
dismiss as being on the fringe for his religious and political views.”

Coberly won second place in the same category for “King of Hearts,” her
profile of a murder victim in the wake of his violent shooting death.

Campbell, Coberly and FCN Publisher Joel Dyer won second place in the
general reporting, series or package category for their coverage of the
immigration raids in Greeley.

Campbell and reporter Rebecca Boyle took second place for news reporting,
single story, for “Eyewitness Describes Fort Collins Murder,” and Boyle also
took second place for political reporting, news or feature, for “Musgrave
2.0,” an in-depth profile of the 4th Congressional District incumbent.

Boyle also took third place in the reader category for “Moving 911,” her
article about Fort Collins police moving into a new building, and finally,
Campbell’s “Notebook” column also took third place in the personal columns
category.