The Sentinel Dispatch is an independent newsroom based in Denver. We were founded in 1974 as a weekly covering water rights in the Colorado River basin, which explains both our name and our continuing interest in infrastructure most people would rather not think about.
We publish daily. The newsroom is twenty-two people, eleven of whom are reporters.
What we cover
Infrastructure, energy, federal agencies, and the places those three overlap. We are generally less interested in what officials say than in what the documents say, which is why a disproportionate number of our stories begin with a records request and end several months later.
We do not cover sports, entertainment, or markets. There are outlets that do those things better.
How we are funded
Reader subscriptions account for roughly seventy percent of our revenue. The rest comes from advertising and from two foundation grants, both disclosed on this page, neither of which has any say in what we publish.
No funder, advertiser, or grantmaker reviews our reporting before publication. If that ever changes, we will say so here first.
Corrections and standards
We correct errors promptly and publicly, and we keep every correction on the record rather than quietly editing a page. Our corrections log is public and our standards editor reads every request that comes in.