{{Short description|Weekly newspaper in Aurora, Colorado}} {{multiple issues| {{promotional|date=May 2014}} {{more citations needed|date=June 2019}} {{COI|date=June 2023}} }} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Sentinel Colorado | image = | caption = | type = Weekly newspaper | format = Tabloid | founded = | owners = Aurora Media Group | publisher = Dave Perry<ref name="leadership">{{Cite web|url=https://www.sentinelcolorado.com/orecent-headlines/sentinel-colorado-makes-strategic-changes-tabbing-dave-perry-as-editor-and-publisher/|title=Sentinel Colorado makes strategic changes, tabbing new publisher, advertising director|last=Sentinel|first=The|date=2019-03-07|website=Sentinel Colorado|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-14}}</ref> | editor = Dave Perry<ref name="leadership"/> | circulation = 12,000 | headquarters = 3033 S Parker Rd Ste 208,<br />Suite 102<br />Aurora, CO 80014-1277<br />{{USA}} | ISSN = | website = [http://www.sentinelcolorado.com/ sentinelcolorado.com] | logo = }}
The '''''Sentinel''''' is a weekly newspaper in Aurora, Colorado, published each Thursday by Aurora Media Group LLC.
==History== In 1971, the Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company acquired a group of suburban publications in the Denver area, including the ''Aurora Star-Sentinel'', the successor to an earlier newspaper serving the Aurora community, ''The Aurora Democrats and News''.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}
Published on Wednesdays and delivered to local homes, ''The Sentinel'' for some time also had a Friday companion newspaper called the ''Aurora Sentinel Weekender''.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}
In 1991, the Cowles Media Company (formerly Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company) broke up and sold off the Denver suburban chain. Local ownership and control of the ''Sentinel'' was established via a partnership of publisher Karen Sowell Johnson and president H. Harrison Cochran.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}
In 1997, a free, rack-distributed publication – ''The Aurora Sun-Sentinel'' – was introduced to supplement the paid-subscription ''Sentinel''.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}
In April 2004, Aurora Publishing Co. introduced ''The Aurora Daily Sun'', a five-day-a-week, tabloid-size publication freely distributed in the city. In June 2007, the ''Daily Sun'' adopted the Sentinel brand. In February 2011, Aurora Media Group bought the papers.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}
In February 2011, the ''Aurora Sentinel'' and the ''Buckley Guardian'' were purchased by the Aurora Media Group from the Aurora Publishing Company. In May 2011, the ''Aurora Sentinel'' changed from a daily to a weekly publication.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}
From 2013 to 2017, Aurora Media Group published ''Aurora'', a monthly city magazine.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}
In 2016, the ''Buckley Guardian'' ceased publication.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}
In February 2018, the ''Aurora Sentinel'' rebranded as ''Sentinel Colorado.''{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}.
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==External links== * [https://www.sentinelcolorado.com/ www.sentinelcolorado.com] *https://www.sentinelcolorado.com/0trending/sentinel-colorado-takes-top-colorado-public-service-honor-and-others-during-annual-ap-awards/ *https://www.sentinelcolorado.com/news/aurora-sentinel-staff-win-12-awards-colorado-press-association-honors/
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