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AWARDS & PRESS

Awards Recognizing Inside Wire: Colorado Prison Radio

• ​2024 Top of the Rockies Excellence in Journalism Award (specific award to be announced by the Society of Professional Journalists Colorado, May 2024)
• 2024 Silver New York Festivals Radio Award, for Station IDs / Station Promotion
• 2023 Silver Anthem Award for Human & Civil Rights, from the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences
• 2023 Signal Awards - 4 Gold awards in the categories of Documentary and Public Service & Activism, from the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences​
• 2023 Solutions Journalism Audio Award, from the Solutions Journalism Network

Press Coverage of Inside Wire: Colorado Prison Radio

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10.10.2022 CBS Mornings: Nation's first statewide prison radio station is fostering new connections

​03.22.2022 CGTN America: Inside Wire: The Radio Station Operated by Prisoners

06.14.2022 Voice of America News: Colorado Launches Prison Radio

03.12.2022 ​NBC: Inmate-produced radio station streams beyond prison walls

03.12.2022 ​NPR: Incarcerated producer finds purpose in running a radio station from prison

03.21.2022 Rocky Mountain PBS: Controlling their narrative: the women behind the country's first prison radio show

03.17.2022 ABC Denver 7: Prison arts initiatives helping those incarcerated find purpose

03.03.2022 The Denver Post: Colorado inmates begin broadcasting over America’s first statewide prison radio station

03.01.2022 9News: Colorado will have the 1st statewide prison radio station in US history

03.01.2022 CBS4 Denver: Radio Station Manned By Colorado Inmates Aims To Serve Deeper Purpose

03.14.2022 CPR: At this prison radio station, inmates tell their stories in their own voices

03.01.2022 Westword: Incarcerated Voices Take Radio Spotlight With Inside Wire

06.03.2022 Ms Mayhem magazine: Denver Women's Correctional Facility helps launch first state-wide prison radio station

03.05.2022 The Gazette: America's 1st statewide prison radio launches in Colorado, seeks to build bridges: 'Feeling human again'

03.07.2022 5280: Colorado Inmates Are Changing the Narrative With First-Ever Public Prison Radio Station

02.28.2022 Associated Press: First Statewide Prison Radio Station in U.S. history Launching in Colorado

02.28.2022 Markets Insider: First Statewide Prison Radio Station in U.S. History Launching in Colorado

03.02.2022 The Colorado Sun: Colorado's first prison radio program begins airing from behind bars

02.28.2022 Fox31: ​Colorado getting ready to launch first statewide prison radio station

03.12.2022 KISM: Prison Radio

03.24.2022 KGNU: Inside Wire: Colorado Prison Radio

02.28.2022 KOA: Ryan Conarro Program Director Prison Radio 'Inside Wire'

03.04.2022 La Junta Tribune-Democrat: La Junta man becomes part of U.S. history

03.22.2022 CGTN America: Inside Wire: The radio station operated by prisoners

03.03.2022 The Lamar Ledger: Colorado inmates begin broadcasting over America’s first statewide prison radio station

03.25.2022 KUNC: Colorado's first statewide prison radio station goes on the air

03.03.2022 The Fort Morgan Times: Colorado inmates begin broadcasting over America’s first statewide prison radio station

03.15.2022 Nebraska Sunrise News: Chris Baker Show with Inside Wire

03.05.2022 The Denver Gazette: America's 1st statewide prison radio launches in Colorado, seeks to build bridges

03.06.2022 Houston Chronicle: Colorado prison radio begins airing from behind bars

03.06.2022 US News & World Report: Colorado Prison Radio Begins Airing From Behind Bars

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Inside Wire: Colorado Prison Radio
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