Colorado Springs Gazette Paywall: How to Read Gazette Articles for Free
The Colorado Springs Gazette meters its news, sports and business coverage. How the Clarity Media paywall works and how to read a full gazette.com article.
Paywall behaviour last tested
The Gazette is the daily newspaper of Colorado Springs and the largest paper in southern Colorado. It is owned by Clarity Media, Philip Anschutz's media company, which also publishes Colorado Politics and the Denver Gazette, and the three titles share reporters, columnists and a subscription system. The Gazette's Broncos coverage, its city hall and military reporting, and its business stories about the fast-growing downtown are shared widely across the state, and a reader following one of those links often meets the subscription prompt. This guide explains how the paywall works and how to read a full story.
How the Colorado Springs Gazette paywall works
The Gazette uses a metered paywall. Non-subscribers can open a handful of articles before the body is replaced by a prompt to subscribe, and the count is tracked in a browser cookie. Some pieces, particularly columns and longer business reporting, are marked for subscribers from the first visit.
The gate is applied in the browser. The site delivers the full text of each article in the page so that search engines can index it, and a script then checks your cookie and hides the body if you are over the limit. A crawler-style reader that fetches the page without running that script receives the complete article. Our explainer on metered versus hard paywalls sets out why that distinction matters.
Our tests on 13 October 2026 through Skip the Paywall:
- A 962-word Colorado Springs Gazette column by Mark Kiszla arguing that the Broncos have no shot at the Super Bowl with a bad Bo Nix loaded in full, all 43 paragraphs.
- A 1,508-word Colorado Springs Gazette report on a 27-storey apartment tower in downtown Colorado Springs, with construction expected to begin by the end of the year, loaded in full, all 40 paragraphs.
Read a Colorado Springs Gazette article in full
- Copy the article link. Gazette links look like gazette.com/2026/10/11/headline-slug/.
- Paste it into the box on the home page and press Read Article.
- The story appears in a clean reader view with the headline, byline and full text.
Other approaches
- Library access. Many Colorado library systems offer their local papers through digital newspaper services with a library card, and the Gazette is a common title in those collections. Ask your branch what it carries.
- Newsletters. The Gazette sends free daily email briefings that summarise the day's stories and link to them.
- Private windows. The meter lives in a cookie, so a private window resets the count.
- Related free sources. Much of the Gazette's city hall and development reporting draws on public meeting agendas, planning documents and court filings that the city and county publish free.
How it compares with other Colorado news
Colorado Politics, the Gazette's sister title, loads in full and behaves the same way. The Denver Post and the other MediaNews papers in the state also load in full. The Denver Gazette shares the Clarity Media platform with the Colorado Springs Gazette, but we have not tested it, so we cannot vouch for it yet. The full list of sites that work is kept current.
Subscribe if you read it regularly
The Gazette is the only daily newsroom covering Colorado Springs, the Air Force Academy, Fort Carson and El Paso County in depth, and that coverage is paid for by subscriptions. If you read its Broncos columns or its local reporting every week, a subscription is the right way to keep it going.
Try it with an article
Paste the URL of an article from Colorado Springs Gazette and read it in a clean reader view. Free, instant, no signup.
Frequently asked questions
Who owns the Colorado Springs Gazette?
Clarity Media, the company owned by Philip Anschutz that also publishes Colorado Politics and the Denver Gazette. The titles share reporting and, as far as we can tell, the same subscription system.
Do sports columns count against the meter?
Yes. Columns are ordinary articles on gazette.com and are metered in the same way as news reports. A Mark Kiszla Broncos column loaded in full in our test.
Does the reader work on the Denver Gazette?
We have not tested it. It shares a publisher and platform with the Colorado Springs Gazette, so it probably behaves the same way, but we only list sites we have confirmed.