Aurora Sentinel: In the decades I’ve been a journalist, a lot of decades, one thing above all underscores how critical, and effective, our work is: transparency.

Nothing I’ve seen in my career, or my lifetime, keeps people, businesses and governments acting on their best behavior as does being watched and scrutinized.

And nothing provides the powerful scrutiny that news media can.

This week, the Society of Professional Journalists honored the Sentinel with its annual First Amendment Award for the work our team of journalists, attorneys and activists have done to help empower all Colorado news media to keep on fighting the good fight.

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