Corey Hutchins is an award-winning journalist and educator who is an advisor to the Colorado Media Project and serves on the board of the state chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. For nearly a decade he has reported on the U.S. local media scene for and is a member of The Washington Post's Talent Network. As a former alt-weekly reporter in the Palmetto State he was twice named South Carolina's Journalist of the Year. His work has appeared on the cover of The Nation, and in The Washington Post, Slate, The Daily Beast, and Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab, among other outlets. He's reported on everything from the psychology of to the nuclear weapons industry — not to mention the wild, drunken hobo clowns terrorizing the world's No. 1 tourist destination. In 2012 and 2015 Hutchins handled South Carolina and Colorado respectively for the State Integrity Investigation, a risk analysis for corruption in all 50 state governments published by the Center for Public Integrity. He authored the chapter on media in the book "American Decades: 2010-2019," published by Gale, and the entry on public funding for SAGE's "Encyclopedia of Journalism," 2nd edition. He has been a journalism textbook reviewer for Macmillan publishers, and he frequently appears in state and national media as a commentator about the future of local news and accountability journalism. His weekly newsletter "" reports on, comments on, and analyzes the goings on in Colorado’s media scene, connecting local developments to what’s happening nationally and exploring what makes the state’s local news ecosystem unique. At Â鶹ÊÓƵ, he maintains the database for the that seeks to help Coloradans find and learn more about existing sources of local news and information.
