A new digital site that’s recruiting freelance journalists and looking to become a “national alt-weekly” is co-owned by a former Colorado journalist-turned cannabis PR guy.
The News Station, whose managing editor Matt Laslo, a D.C-based journalist who put out a call for new writers this week, is a recently expanded and spun-off national project co-owned by Peter Marcus of Arvada. A former reporter for The Durango Herald and Colorado Politics, Marcus left journalism in 2017 to become director of communications for the privately-owned Terrapin Care Station, one of the few Colorado-based Multi State Operators in the cannabis industry.
Quitting journalism cold turkey, though, can make for a difficult transition for newly minted flaks. So Marcus created something for Terrapin called The News Station where he could…
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