Corey Hutchins is the co-director of the Journalism Institute at Colorado College, an advisor to Colorado Media Project, and a board member of the Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. For nearly a decade he has reported on the U.S. local media scene for Columbia Journalism Review and is a member of The Washington Post's Talent Network. As a former alt-weekly reporter in the Palmetto State he was twice named South Carolina's Journalist of the Year by the S.C. Press Association. His work has appeared on the cover of The Nation, and in The Washington Post, Slate, The Daily Beast, The Texas Observer, The Progressive magazine, and Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab, among other outlets. In 2012 and 2015 Hutchins handled South Carolina and Colorado respectively for the State Integrity Investigation, a risk analysis for corruption in all 50 state governments published by the Center for Public Integrity. He authored the chapter on media in the book "American Decades: 2010-2019," published by Gale, and the entry on public funding for SAGE's "Encyclopedia of Journalism" 2nd edition. In 2023, the Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists named him Educator of the Year.