Corinne Colbert
Editor-in-Chief
Athens County Independent
About Corinne Colbert
Corinne Colbert’s four-decade career encompasses journalism, publishing, nonprofit communications and project management. She co-founded the Athens County Independent in 2022 after she was fired by the Athens News for warning readers about deceptive advertising; she leveraged the resulting outcry into an $18,000 crowdfunding campaign to launch the Independent. Since publishing its first story in August 2022, the Independent has grown to over 5,000 subscribers for its weekly newsletters and averages 15,000 monthly page views. In 2023, the Independent was chosen for Indiegraf’s News Startup Fund and was named a finalist in the Future of News Division of the Next Challenge.
