Coloradoan podcast revisits the first 150 years of the Coloradoan, local news
On a blustery March day in 1873, a wagon loaded down with a hand-run printing press pulled into Fort Collins.
By that next month, the first edition of the city's first newspaper would roll off it, setting a century and a half of history into motion.
In the decades that followed its founding, the newspaper — initially called the Larimer County Express — would grow and change much like the news industry itself. Its ownership changed hands. It dropped its political affiliation and merged with its rival, the Fort Collins Courier. And it ultimately changed names to the Fort Collins Coloradoan.
Dive deeper into the Express' beginnings, evolution and, ultimately, its staying power in this episode of "The Way it Was," a history podcast produced by the Coloradoan.
Extra! Extra! Hear all about it.
Step back into 1965: Archived photos from inside the Coloradoan's former Mountain Avenue newsroom
This article originally appeared on Fort Collins Coloradoan: Coloradoan history podcast looks back on 150 years of Fort Collins news
