Talk:Broomfield Enterprise

Sources for expansion

 * Founded maybe 1970s? Succeeded or name change after 1986 by Broomfield Enterprise Sentinel? https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89052225/
 * Editor: Michael Hicks. Publishes 3 days/week. Owned by Media News Group. https://www.mondotimes.com/1/world/us/6/390/1099
 * MediaNews became the sole owner in 2009, by acquiring the E. W. Scripps' 50% ownership stake in parent company Prairie Mountain Publishing Co. Prairie Mountain also published The Daily Camera and Colorado Daily. At the time Prairie Mountain also owned the Akron News Reporter, Brush News-Tribune, Burlington Record, Estes Park Trail Gazette, Fort Morgan Times, Julesburg Advocate, Lamar Ledger and the Sterling Journal-Advocate. MediaNews' subsidiary The Denver Newspaper Agency also owned The Denver Post.
 * The acquisition ended the joint operating agreement.
 * Sold in 1979 by Mr. and Mrs Albert Martin to Minneapolis Star & Tribune Co. Circulation 12,000. https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1980-01-05_113_1/page/38/mode/2up
 * Only local newspaper listed for Broomfield in this pub (1995):https://archive.org/details/profilesofameric0000unse/page/n103/mode/2up and this pub (1997): https://archive.org/details/comparativeguide00touc/page/220/mode/2up
 * Downsized in 2002, sister publication Daily Camera: https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_2002-01-07_135_1/page/n3/mode/2up
 * Editor Marty Miller quoted in a nationally syndicated AP story in 1989 to characterize the Broomfield residents' perspective on a local nuclear power plant. e.g.: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88170429/broomfield-nuclear/
 * Owned by Boulder Publishing (1995) along with Daily Camera. Delivered free to residents. Strong coverage of government, business, schools, sports.: https://archive.org/details/insidersguidetog00caru/page/374/mode/2up
 * Owned by Knight-Ridder (1996): https://archive.org/details/sim_american-journalism-review_january-february-1996_18_1/page/n21/mode/2up
 * Two Publishers Take the Reins of Colorado Papers (2006) https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88169945/two-publishers-take-the-reins-of-colorad/
 * One of the founding organizations, in 1985, of the Let's Bag Hunger Fund & Food Drive
 * Rosann Doran was a cofounder in 1975
 * "Dry Rot," a column by Vic Boccard, first ran in the Broomfield Star-Builder in 1959. On its 50th anniversary, the Enterprise republished many of Boccard's columns.

Reporting picked up by other news sources

 * https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88170818/hazmat-scare/
 * https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88170109/broomfield-enterprise/
 * https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88170587/accident/
 * https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88170109/broomfield-enterprise/
 * https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88170587/accident/

Full stories republished:

-Pete Forsyth (talk) 19:00, 1 November 2021 (UTC)