This week in The Roundup, Heather Sackett and Eleanor Bennett help us understand emerging environmental and social factors shaping our community, while Laurine Lassalle continues to improve our new-this-winter Roaring Fork basin snowpack monitoring feature, which now includes an interactive map visualizing real-time readings from SNOTEL sites ringing the watershed. Read on below to get […]
Author Archives: Curtis Wackerle
Curtis Wackerle is the Editor and Executive Director of Aspen Journalism, where he guides the nonprofit’s mission to deliver in-depth, independent reporting on environmental and community issues in Colorado’s mountain regions. He has extensive experience in journalism and editorial leadership, including 14 years at Aspen Daily News, where he covered city hall and, from 2016 until joining Aspen Journalism in 2020, served as editor in chief. Under his direction, Aspen Journalism has grown as a trusted source for nuanced coverage of water, land use, public policy and socioeconomic issues in the West. He grew up in Portland, has a journalism degree from the University of Montana, and lives in Woody Creek.
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The Roundup | What would Albert Schweitzer do?
Ten stories that have published by Aspen Journalism including a four-part series by Paul Andersen about an effort to recenter the moral humanism of Albert Schweitzer as a pillar of the Aspen community.
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The Roundup | Asking the right questions
Hunting for phantom dams Recently at Aspen Journalism, Water Desk Editor Heather Sackett published a new investigative project. Like most great pieces of journalism it started with a question, which in this case rose to the top about a year ago, when Sackett was writing about a company with ties to oil and gas development […]
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The Roundup | J-1 worker woes, basin states deadlocked and digging in
Recently at Aspen Journalism, we dig deep into critical water issues on the Western Slope and across the wider Colorado River basin, working conditions at a key Aspen lodging and convention site, and what the fate of a small, historic former gallery in the Castle Creek Valley has to say about our community’s history and […]
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The Roundup | Thankful for energy, water and reproductive rights coverage
Three new stories showing the breadth of our newsroom covering energy, water and reproductive rights.
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JOIN US Dec. 12! Chautauqua: In Search of Community
Chautauqua: In Search of Community A conversation launched by the recent series of articles by Paul Andersen, “In Search of Community” Dear friends of Aspen Journalism, We are excited to invite all of you to Aspen Journalism’s latest community-engagement event co-hosted with the Glenwood Springs nonprofit Community Builders. In the tradition of a community-centered dialogue, […]
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The Roundup | What lies ahead for St. Benedict’s Monastery?
This week at Aspen Journalism, we published a story, produced in collaboration with Aspen Public Radio, that we believe stands as one of the more remarkable reporting efforts conducted on behalf of this community in quite some time. In a region with no shortage of land use issues and controversies, the fate of a 3,700-acre […]
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The Roundup | The building block of democracy
No matter how you feel about the election results, we can all agree on the importance of fact-based civil discourse and an informed public. “Well informed citizens make better decisions” has been our motto since Aspen Journalism’s founding in the wake of the Great Recession. In our almost 14 years in business, we’ve published more […]
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Forecasting what will fly if runway is moved animates airport debate
Data from other airports in the Western U.S. that serve mountain-resort destinations where such planes can land suggests there is relatively little demand for private Boeing 737s that are currently too big for Aspen.
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The Roundup | Water workgroups, mobile home park activism, collective recreation management
Happy Halloween! Can you imagine how frightening it would be to live in a world without local, independent, in-depth journalism? Let’s be sure that spooky story never happens! Tomorrow, November 1, we launch our end-of-year campaign with the goal to raise $190,000 by December 31. It’s an ambitious goal, but it is one that allows […]