Category: The Roundup newsletter

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

Three new stories showing the breadth of our newsroom covering energy, water and reproductive rights.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]