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The colorado Press Association's

Board of Directors

CPA

Current Board of Directors

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Lee Bachlet

Lee Bachlet, President

SVP of Growth and Development, CherryRoad

Lee Bachlet, Vice President

SVP of Growth and Development, CherryRoad
LBachlet@cherryroad.com

Lee Bachlet has held various leadership positions in the media industry throughout his career. Lee has been the SVP of Growth and Development at CherryRoad Media since July 2025. Prior to that, he held the positions of Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Growth and Development at CherryRoad, starting in 2022. Before joining CherryRoad, Lee worked at Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK as a Regional Sales Director from December 2019 to December 2021, and as the Senior Group Publisher, Colorado, and Publisher, Pueblo Chieftain from November 2018 to December 2020. Lee also served as the Senior Group Publisher - Louisiana at GateHouse Media from February 2016 to November 2018. Earlier in his career, Lee held positions at Las Vegas Review-Journal, Austin American-Statesman, US Publishing, Gannett, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Denver Newspaper Agency, The Denver Post, and Santa Fe New Mexican.

Lee Bachlet attended the University of Wyoming from 1983 to 1990, where he studied Political Science and Theater. 

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Dave Cook

David Cook, Vice President

Owner and Publisher, Aspen Daily News

David Cook, Treasurer

Owner and Publisher, Aspen Daily News
david@aspendailynews.com

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Nicole Miller

Nicole Miller, Treasurer

Publisher, Summit Daily News

Nicole Miller

Publisher, Summit Daily News
nmiller@summitdaily.com

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Mark Craddock

Mark Craddock, Secretary

Assistant Editor, World Journal Newspaper

Mark Craddock, Director

Assistant Editor, World Journal Newspaper
mcraddock.worldjournal@gmail.com

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Linda Shapley

Linda Shapley, Past President

Owner, LinShapley Media

Linda Shapley, President

Owner, LinShapley Media
linda@linshapley.com

Linda Carpio Shapley (she, her) has held various leadership roles at Colorado Community Media, Colorado Politics, The Denver Post, the Greeley Tribune and the Rocky Mountain Collegian during her three decades in journalism. She currently is director of the MATCH Lab with the Colorado News Collaborative and an adjunct instructor at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. 
 
A lifelong Coloradan, Linda enjoys spending time with her family up and down the Front Range, attending baseball games and being an ardent supporter of Colorado journalism. She and her husband, Ed, live the empty-nest life in Thornton.

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Vince Bzdek

Vince Bzdek, Director

Executive Editor, Denver and Colorado Springs Gazettes, Colorado Politics

Vince Bzdek, Director

Executive Editor, Denver and Colorado Springs Gazettes, Colorado Politics
vince.bzdek@gazette.com

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Tamara Chuang

Tamara Chuang, Director

Business and Technology Writer for the Colorado Sun

Tamara Chuang, Director

Tamara Chuang, Business and Technology Reporter for the Colorado Sun
tamara@coloradosun.com

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Lee Ann Colacioppo

Lee Ann Colacioppo, Director

Executive Editor, The Denver Post

Lee Ann Colacioppo, Director

Lee Ann Colacioppo, Executive Editor
lcolacioppo@denverpost.com

Lee Ann Colacioppo is the executive editor of The Denver Post, a position she has held since 2016. Colacioppo joined The Post in 1999 as an assistant city editor, and since then she has held several editing positions, including city editor, investigations editor and news director. She previously worked at The Des Moines Register, Greenville (S.C.) News and Kingsport (Tenn.) Times-News. She is a Denver native. Education: BA from Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa.

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Patrick Ferrucci

Patrick Ferrucci, Director

Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism, University of Colorado Boulder

Patrick Ferrucci, Director

Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism, University of Colorado Boulder
pafe3413@colorado.edu

Patrick Ferrucci (Ph.D. University of Missouri) is a professor and the chair in the Department of Journalism in the College of Communication, Media, Design and Information at the University of Colorado Boulder. His work primarily concerns itself with how various funding models of journalism impact the work practices of journalists.

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Charity Huff

Charity Huff, Director

Owner, January Spring and 5280 Magazine

Patrick Ferrucci, Director

Owner, January Spring and 5280 Magazine
charity@januaryspring.com

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Brittany Winkfield

Brittany Winkfield, Director

Director, Colorado Ethnic Media Exchange

Brittany Winkfield, Director

Director, Colorado Ethnic Media Exchange
brittany@ethnicmedia.co

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