CPA MEMBER NEWSROOMS
A badge that means something.
When you see the CPA Member badge on a news organization’s website or publication, you’re seeing a member of Colorado’s professional news community. Membership comes with standards, an application process and a commitment to the principles of responsible journalism.
What membership tells you
CPA members are part of a statewide organization working to strengthen local news and defend the public’s right to know.
News organizations must meet eligibility requirements and earn acceptance through an application and review process. Membership isn’t simply something a publication can purchase.
CPA Member
For qualifying news organizations
This badge identifies a news organization accepted into CPA membership through the association’s review process.
Membership has meaningful standards
Original journalism
News media members publish news and information that serves their communities. Online members must focus on original news and editorial content, with a substantial portion produced by staff or written locally. Print publications have separate editorial-content requirements.
Professional standards
Eligibility requirements address recognized journalistic and ethical standards. They distinguish qualifying news organizations from publications primarily promoting the interests or opinions of a particular group, individual or cause.
Application and review
CPA’s Membership Committee reviews news media applications and recommends applicants to the Board of Directors for approval. Paying dues alone doesn’t establish eligibility.
Trust, with editorial independence
CPA supports professional standards and editorial independence. The CPA Member badge indicates that a news organization has met the association's membership requirements through its application and review process.
Membership is not a license or an endorsement of individual stories. CPA does not routinely review members' reporting, and each newsroom remains responsible for its own editorial decisions.
Other CPA membership categories
Individual and allied members also participate in CPA. Their badges do not identify an organization as a qualifying news outlet.
Individual member
For people with qualifying connections to journalism and the news profession. Applications are subject to CPA approval.
Allied member
For those who serve or support the news media. Allied membership does not establish editorial qualifications.
Local news matters. So does knowing who’s behind it.
Now that you know what the CPA Member badge represents, discover the news organizations serving communities across Colorado and explore their reporting.
