About the cover: ‘Eerie beauty’

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Leif Lomo made this image as part of his Digital Photographic Practices class, which covered the New Topographics movement—when landscape photography shifted from pastoral beauty to documenting the human alteration of those landscapes. “In that course, I found a reason to explore and show some of the eerie beauty I found in the world,” he said.

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Students gather at Macky for J-Day.

This October, CMDI again welcomed students from high and middle schools around Colorado to J-Day, a learning and professional development experience for those interested in news and media. Nearly 1,300 students from 62 schools attended to learn about changes driven by A.I., geopolitics and economics, and got to hear a keynote address from 9News reporter Marshall Zelinger (Jour’02).

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