About the Summit Daily News
The Summit Daily News prints an average of 5,200 copies of its newspaper six days a week, and it’s distributed at about 250 locations throughout Summit County. Our website, SummitDaily.com, is updated daily as news happens in the county.
The Summit Daily is read by an average of 35,000 people each day. We pride ourselves on providing balanced, insightful community coverage for local residents, second-home owners and visitors.
- Lobby hours: 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Fridays
- Office hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays
- Phone: 970-668-3998
- Physical address: 301 W. Main St., Suite 201, Frisco, CO, 80443
- Mailing address: P.O. Box 329 Frisco, CO, 80443
- Office directory: SummitDaily.com/contact-us
- Submit your news: SummitDaily.com/submissions
- Follow us on social:
- Facebook: @SummitDaily
- Twitter: @SummitDailyNews
- Instagram: @SummitDailyNews, #ExploreSummit
- Pinterest: @SummitDaily
How to subscribe on SummitDaily.com
The Summit Daily News has offered its reporting for free since its inception in 1989. What worked 37 years ago no longer works today, so now we’re asking our readers to subscribe to help support local journalism.
The Summit Daily employs the largest newsgathering team in Summit County and does critically important watchdog and investigative journalism. To sustain this work, we need support from our readers. Head to SummitDaily.com/subscribe to sign up.
Want to learn more about why Summit Daily is asking readers to subscribe? Check out our FAQ.
History of the Summit Daily News
The Summit Daily News, founded by Jim Pavelich in August 1989, came into being at a crossroads in the newspaper business. In the late 1980s, Selectric typewriters and linotype machines were giving way to rudimentary computers.
Staff still had to paste up the newspaper by cutting up the copy, running it through a wax machine and pasting it onto a flat piece of cardboard.
Then came the internet, which provided email and a wonderful new way to distribute news.
The Summit Daily began as a five-day-a-week paper, added a sixth issue in summer 1992 and then a seventh by December 1994, making it a true daily.
In 1994, the Summit Daily, along with its sister paper the Vail Daily, was purchased by Swift Communications and moved into what’s now The Peak School building. In 2022, Swift Communications was purchased by Ogden Newspapers. The paper moved into its current location in 2024.
The Summit Daily is now published six days a week with an average free distribution of 5,200 papers daily, serving the towns of Breckenridge, Frisco, Silverthorne, Dillon and Summit County’s four world-class ski areas.
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Best of Summit explainer
Summit County residents have been voting for their favorite local businesses, organizations and attractions in Summit Daily News’ annual readers choice awards contest for years. It’s the biggest contest of its kind in Summit County, with hundreds of thousands of votes cast annually across hundreds of categories.
Learn more about how the contest works.
Statement of values
Summit Daily News is committed to celebrating our people and our communities.
- To our communities: We will be a positive force in our communities. Our goal is to strengthen our communities through a principled philosophy that requires us to be part of the solution to improving life in our towns.
- To our readers and supporters: With a community-first focus, we will produce fair, accurate and engaging news, sports and feature content that allows our readers to make informed decisions on how best to engage with their communities.
- To our employees: We will maintain a professional, fair, safe workplace that values our employees’ contributions to our mission and respects their role within our company.
Read the full statement of values.
Newspaper glossary
All news organizations, including the Summit Daily News, are divided into two departments: advertising and the newsroom. News coverage is created separately from advertising efforts. While newsrooms and advertising staff occasionally collaborate on business initiatives and projects, all news coverage decisions are made by the editor and independently of any revenue-based influence.
Crime reporting guidelines
Typically, the Summit Daily News will name someone accused of a crime only after they have been formally charged. Suspects will be named before formal charges have been filed in cases of serious alleged crimes.
When a person is named in a crime story, the Summit Daily commits to following that case through to its disposition and writing a story on the outcome.
Read more about our crime reporting guidelines.
Comment policy
The comment sections on Summit Daily News social media pages are intended to be a place for thoughtful discussion on the local, community news we provide.
We rely on platforms’ built-in comment moderation tools to help manage the conversations on our social media posts. However, we also monitor comments to ensure that discussions remain respectful, relevant and constructive.
If any comments violate our community guidelines, we reserve the right to remove or hide them. Multiple comments that violate our community guidelines may result in being blocked from our social media pages.
Read more about our comment policy.
Ethics policy
Swift Communications and each of its member newsgathering organizations are committed to the highest ethical standards and require the same of their employees. The key values of integrity, objectivity, fairness, balance and accuracy are the basic tenets of our news operations in print and digital media.
The credibility of our news reports is one of our most valued assets. We proudly accept our role of reporting the news, and we aspire to meet the highest of standards in our news coverage.
We must maintain the public trust.
Read more about our newsroom ethics policy.