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Toni Thayer, Editor
Dave Brown
Tom Darnell

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Welcome to the Durango Guardian where news and subject matter is citizen generated. This is a place where you can write and communicate with others about the different locations, cultures, people and events in La Plata County, Colorado.

The subjects are only limited by your imaginations. We will edit your work for grammar and spelling if need be, while leaving the ideas and thoughts intact. However, we reserve the right to change, or contact you about needed changes on anything submitted to this newspaper.

We've laid out the Writing Guidelines for use when submitting material to the Durango Guardian. Look these over since they will make all writing and editing easier.

Citizen Journalism

Public or participatory journalism.

Citizens playing an active role in the collection and dissemination of news and information.

Citizen media with content generated by users.

 

The DURANGO GUARDIAN is a non-partisan internet newspaper that covers La Plata County, Colorado, which includes the communities of Bayfield, Durango and Ignacio. We're owned and operated by Durango Media, Inc.

The DURANGO GUARDIAN is a 21st century electronic publication that's based on citizen journalism. Under this concept of citizen journalism, we, the DURANGO GUARDIAN, and you, the regional public, work together to become The Eyes, Ears, and Voice of our communities through this news website.

All too often, it seems that group and institutional decisions are made by individuals who have their own personal motives to influence public processes that impact all of us. The DURANGO GUARDIAN is primarily interested in these decision-makers' motives, their underlying agendas and ideas.

It's our belief that we, the area residents, have the right to know and understand all of the decisions and events that impact us, our families and friends. We must be able to ask questions and disseminate the information that we discover, and this is the purpose and role of the DURANGO GUARDIAN.

Accordingly, it's our goal to let all sides of an issue be heard fairly and squarely. Diverse opinions are welcome here at the DURANGO GUARDIAN where it, ultimately, all comes together in a totally transparent and clear communication available for La Plata County citizens.

Won't you join us in becoming the The Eyes, Ears and Voice of the people today?

 
 

Tom Darnell

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