Hello, and welcome back to The Roundup. In our last edition, we looked at local issues affected by federal decisions; in this edition, Aspen Journalism’s reporting looks at what has become “normal” and what is being done to improve the baseline. Stories have been flying off the Social Justice Desk as Eleanor Bennett and Kaya […]
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 | Local efforts affected by federal decisions
Happy Tuesday and welcome back to the Roundup, sharing the latest original, in-depth reporting from the Roaring Fork Valley’s only nonprofit online investigative news outlet, with stories of impact stretching far beyond Aspen. Our journalists have been taking a hard look at drought, wildfire and infrastructure concerns that are coming to the fore as we […]
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The Roundup | Looking ahead to a sustainable future
County seeks land swap to ease pressure at North Star put-in Pitkin County is moving forward with an official proposal for a land exchange that would see it acquire 23 acres of U.S. Forest Service land around Wildwood Lane including a busy river access point for floaters heading to the North Star Nature Preserve. The […]
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The Roundup | Rare earth elements, an Upper Basin negotiating breakthrough and a school district’s transgender name change debate
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 […]
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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 […]
