The Aurora Sentinel Community Media model is an innovative effort to preserve and expand critical, fact-based journalism in Aurora.
You can invest in local news with Aurora Sentinel Community Shares for as little as $10, and your contribution could be tax deductible.
We know from our readers and research that factual, trusted, nonpartisan news and features are crucial to sound civic engagement, a thriving community, and a fulfilling life.
For more than a century, the Aurora Sentinel has been the trusted news voice of the Aurora region. The Aurora Sentinel/Sentinel Colorado is now overseen by a non-profit board of directors, The Aurora Sentinel Community Media group.
Our mission is to provide factual, trusted, nonpartisan news and features about the Aurora, Colorado community, available to everyone. We operate without website paywalls, and our print Sentinel widely available for free across the region.
Our vision is to provide factual, trusted, nonpartisan news, investigations and features about the Aurora region and community, available to everyone. The Aurora Sentinel Community Media non-profit corporation was created to grow a robust, thriving news organization with the capacity to cover the issues and interests of the diverse community of Aurora.
To provide factual, trusted, nonpartisan news and features about the Aurora, Colorado community, available to everyone.
Our vision is to provide factual, trusted, nonpartisan news, investigations and features about the Aurora region and community, available to everyone.
The Aurora Sentinel Community Media non-profit corporation was created to grow a robust, thriving news organization with the capacity to cover the issues and interests of the diverse community of Aurora.
The Aurora Sentinel
The Aurora Sentinel, in many of its incarnations during the past 116 years, has proudly been the paper of record for the city, Arapahoe and Adams counties and much of the region.
For generations, the Sentinel has been an independent, award-winning source of trusted, fact-based non-partisan news. In January 2023, the Sentinel evolved to become a non-profit company whose sole mission is to sustain the trusted media company for the benefit of the community.
The Sentinel is the sole source of news dedicated to the extremely diverse and disparate City of Aurora, approaching 400,000 people. The Sentinel has for decades been a source of community news and opinion leader on a vast range of issues, many affecting communities and people far beyond Aurora.
We are a collaborative newsroom among other large and small media outlets across the state, including The Associated Press, The Colorado News Collaborative, The Colorado Media Project and the Colorado Press Association.
The legal structure of the Sentinel company
Aurora Media Group, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company (“Aurora Media Group”), is the owner and publisher of The Aurora Sentinel newspaper. In May 2022, Joaquin Alvarado organized Colorado Journalism Investment Group, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company (“CJIG”) and purchased all the membership interests in Aurora Media Group. That transaction closed on June 1, 2022. CJIG transferred all of the membership interests in Aurora Media Group to ASCM on January 1, 2023.
The parent structure of the Aurora Sentinel Community Media is a Colorado nonprofit corporation incorporated on September 15, 2022, and is a IRS registered 501(C)(3).
Organization name
Aurora Sentinel Community Media
1907
Tax id (EIN)
92-1674478
Category
Public & Societal Benefit, Arts, Culture & Humanities, Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy, Community Improvement & Capacity Building, Crime & Legal-Related
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
2600 S PARKER RD STE 4-141Aurora, CO, US
Arapahoe County, CO, US
Adams County, CO, US
Denver, CO, US
Centennial, CO, US