Clarity Media Group appears in this repository as the media-company node in Colorado Times Recorder's Advance Colorado persuasion-machine reporting. The retained source set describes the Colorado Springs Gazette, Denver Gazette, and Colorado Politics as Anschutz-owned outlets associated with Clarity Media Group.
In the Advance Colorado cluster, Clarity Media Group matters because CTR reporting and the Who is Advance Colorado? microsite frame its Colorado outlets as an amplification layer for Common Sense Institute research and Advance Colorado-backed ballot arguments. The current repo source basis is CTR-centered; this page therefore treats the media-amplification role as reported and interpreted by CTR, not as an independently audited editorial-control finding.
- Role or function: media-company / publication-owner node in CTR reporting.
- Scope in this repo: Colorado political media coverage and editorial amplification in the Advance Colorado source cluster.
- Associated outlets in retained CTR reporting: Colorado Springs Gazette, Denver Gazette, and Colorado Politics.
- Important context: the current source set supports Clarity as a named media infrastructure node in CTR reporting, but not a full corporate-history or governance page.
- Common Sense Institute: CTR reporting says Clarity-linked outlets account for a large share of CSI mentions in a Newsbank search period.
- Advance Colorado: CTR reporting places Clarity in the broader persuasion-machine frame around Advance-backed ballot measures.
- Colorado Times Recorder: source publication for the retained reporting.
¶ Evidence and source basis
- a locally retained article from Colorado Times Recorder, published 2026-04-07, titled Common Dollars & Common Sense: Inside the Persuasion Machine Shaping Colorado Elections: presents Clarity Media Group as the third component of CTR's Advance Colorado persuasion-machine frame.
- a locally retained article from Colorado Times Recorder, published 2023-07-27, titled Spiked: A Conservative ‘Shadow’ Hangs Over Colorado Newspapers Owned by GOP Billionaire Phil Anschutz: retained CTR reporting on conservative influence and Anschutz-owned Colorado newspapers.
- a locally retained article from Colorado Times Recorder, published 2023-05-04, titled Guess Who’s ‘Not Sure’ He Sees a Distinction Among CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News? The Editor of Colorado’s Anschutz Media Empire: retained CTR reporting on the editor of Anschutz's Colorado media properties.
- Who is Advance Colorado microsite and linked tax-document cluster: bounded summary for the microsite and one-hop source set.
- A future pass should retrieve direct Clarity Media Group, Gazette, Denver Gazette, and Colorado Politics ownership or masthead sources before expanding this page beyond CTR's reporting frame.
- The current repo should not treat Clarity publication of CSI material as proof of direction, coordination, or editorial control without stronger direct records.
¶ Source access and local retention
Atlas Trace retains research captures and provenance records locally. Public originals, when available, appear in the Original links section below; internal archive paths and restricted materials are not public links. See Sources, access, and local retention.