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New COVID-19 restrictions will the prohibit gatherings County clerks ‘We’re on air’indoor dining, personal
reassure voters while watching for cyberattacks Officials push back against fraud claims, stay alert BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Jake Marsing, left, handles the play by play for the Warriors’ walk-off win against Berthoud April 14. His engineer is Hayden Delier. PHOTO BY STEVE SMITH
Frederick High School students learn about all things broadcast journalism
cover road games next year. Faculty advisor Jake Marsing wants to add in-school newscasts, as well. Before taking his teaching job at FHS (he teaches social studies), Marsing worked in sports radio in two markets, including Denver. He covered college football, the Denver BY STEVE SMITH Nuggets and the Denver Broncos. SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM “I’m teaching them based on what I learned,” Marsing said. the camera. A Behind long line ofmic. carsBehind outsideathe city of Brighton’s rapid testing site“The at rest is trial and error.” Setting up streams and the behindRiverdale Regional Park. The site has had to close early many days in recent the-scenes pieces that go into on-air weeks due to high demand. Adams County’s test positivity rate Air time14-day in all forms efforts. For now, the focus is Department. on sports, Those of broadcast was 15.9 facets percent, as of Nov. jour17, according to Tri-County Health much to thewere delight of four memnalism and others are available to positivity Brighton and Commerce City’s test rates both higher than bers of the class, including Zach students who are taking part in 13 percent. Forty-five people in Brighton and 29 in Commerce City have Wartner, who also pitches on the a twice-weekly class at Frederick died from COVID-19 related health issues. To limitbaseball the spread of COVID-19, Warriors’ team. High School. “I joinedthat because it was basedand on efatThe leaststudent-run 15 countiesplay-by-play moved to tighter restrictions prohibits indoor sports,” Wartner said. “I’ve done fort broadcast some 30 home games personal gatherings. color commentary so far. I like to in football, basketball and baseball talk. I like to talk to new people. I on the internet. There weren’t any was nervous at first, but it’s become live streams. The first effort at girls routine now. I even didBelen play byWard play soccer was due to take place April Photo by of a basketball game.” 21. Athletic director Ty Gordon said Khloe Gould is not interested in the hope is to expand the program to
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being on the air. She’s more at home behind the scenes. “I’ve loved the class from the first day,” said the FHS freshman. “I’ve learned a lot .. how to set up a broadcast, how to take it down, how to set up a tripod, how to set up a stream. It’s a top priority.” Hayden Delier doesn’t want much to with theBy on-air either. But if Ellispiece Arnold it’s cameras, Delier is right there. Colorado Community “On-mic? No,” he said.Media “I’m not super comfortable with it. I’ve As Denver metro counties learned to tell a story and continue to get to inch closerangles. to local Our stay-at-home orders different basketball team a pretty goodofseason (it under had Colorado’s system coronavirusmade the Final Four for the fi rst related restrictions, the state announced time since 1956). We were able to add a new level of rules prohibits more depthto ourthat story by notindoor makdining and personal gatherings — a the ing it about interviews but about changeasthat applies to the majority of the team a whole.” Josh Bailey hasand done color com- in Denver metro area many counties mentary and play by play for basketother regions. ball games this season. state’s COVID-19 dial, which “IThe was nervous, thinking I washas
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While local counties’ clerks and recorders say they are still taking steps to unravel false claims of widespread election fraud two years after the 2020 presidential election and ahead of the June primaries, they are also on the lookout for potential cyberattacks after warnings from President Joe Biden that such attacks are increasingly likely. “It’s definitely nerve-wracking, but something that we are starting to get used to,” Adams County Clerk and Recorder Josh Zygielbaum said. “It’s the world we live in now, and we do everything we can to protect the system and to protect ourselves andisour workers and based our voters.” county required to follow on the The threat level severity of cybersecurity a county’s local virus spread. is similar to past elections, or Thethe dialworst-case grew out of the state’s safer-atscenarios election home — theprepared policy thatfor, came after offiorder ces have metro the area statewide stay-at-home order this clerks said. is nonumerous questiontypes rightof spring“There and allowed now, every agency is indicating businesses to reopen. that the risk of Russian initiated The state recently threats switchedhas to color cyber security inidentifiers — levels blue, yellow andClerk creased,” Jefferson County orange than numbered levelssaid. — to andrather Recorder George Stern But Stern said “long before avoid confusion. Until Nov. 17, level red we ahad internal order. threats to our meant stay-at-home Now, level elections,” cybersecurity and the red security — “severeofrisk” — is the secondelection from foreign SEE ATTACKS, P6
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