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As summer turns to fall, Aspen Journalism remains focused on reporting the most urgent challenges and opportunities shaping Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley. Seven recent stories trace a common thread: the effects of climate change are intensifying, our institutional capacity is stretched, and yet our community continues to search for innovative, collaborative solutions. Drought, […]

You can’t make sense of where you’re going without an understanding of where you’ve been. That’s the idea behind the three-part series recently published by Aspen Journalism from Paul Andersen, examining the “crisis of the commons” on the American continent and in our backyard, across the arc of history.

Thank you, as always, for reading and supporting the valley’s only nonprofit, investigative news origination, as we share the latest of our summer reporting below. And please check our website or pick up the Aspen Daily News Saturday through Monday for a new three-part series from Paul Andersen exploring the historic legacy of public lands across […]

Here at Aspen Journalism, we’re having a great summer season, with a diverse array of in-depth and investigative news highlighting our region’s most significant issues — our water infrastructure and planning for a hotter, drier future; tenuous housing security facing many mobile home park residents; the impacts of Aspen’s massive Lift One corridor redevelopment coming […]

The Aspen 80 The influence of ultra-wealthy homeowners in the Aspen area is inescapable. The building and maintaining of palatial residential developments, and catering to their occupants, forms the bedrock of much of the local economy, but this sector often plays as an enigma in its local-culture footprint. Seldom do we get to know who […]

This week’s roundup of stories speaks to the power of collaboration. Every story is the result of award-winning journalists asking the tough questions, and following curiosity with tenacity to seek complex answers. Each story is shared in print and broadcast through public radio and on our website. What you’ll read and listen to this week […]

A letter from the editor of Aspen Journalism and roundup of original stories: Dealing with the world as it is in three different settings.

Happy off season and thanks for reading the Roundup — the best way to stay up to date on all of Aspen Journalism’s reporting. Below, you’ll find a rundown of our recent coverage on a wide array of topics of local interest, including changes to how we’ll be flying this summer, Pitkin County boosting a […]

Aspen Ski Patrol‘s historic battles The two-part series on the history of the Aspen ski patrol unionization movement — unfolding over decades before the formation in 1986 of the Aspen Professional Ski Patrol Association, which remains the local patrol’s collective bargaining unit — was a reminder that the Aspen of today was forged through contentious […]

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 […]