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, […]
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Aspen Journalism recognized with six awards in 2024 Better News Media Contest
Aspen Journalism recognized with six awards in 2024 Better News Media Contest AJ claimed three first-place awards, including best news story and best public service project Dear friends of Aspen Journalism, Aspen Journalism received six awards in the Colorado Press Association’s 2024 Better News Media Contest. The awards, announced on Aug. 24 at the Local […]
The Roundup | Crisis of the commons: Public lands and the human story
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.
The Roundup | Residents’ offer accepted, mussel source found, a river that flows free
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 […]
The Roundup | Lift One impacts, dam problems, mobile home protections
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 Roundup | Staking out the Aspen billionaire landscape
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 […]
The Runoff | Dismal flows, funding thaws & big decisions ahead
Welcome to The Runoff, where Aspen Journalism’s Water Desk provides insider news and water-related updates you won’t read anywhere else under The Briefing and additional context and updates on the most recent reporting from our water desk under The Recap. Thanks for going deeper with us and for supporting our nonprofit, in-depth, investigative reporting. – […]
The Roundup | A date circled on the calendar
Local journalist Kaya Williams had June 9 circled on her calendar, as the date that the pending sale of the 3,739-acre St Benedict’s Monastery property in Old Snowmass was scheduled to close. But as she reported this week in collaboration with Josie Taris of Aspen Daily News, the deal, which we first reported this spring, […]
The Roundup | From human rights to water rights
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 […]
The Roundup | Consent, stopgap stewardship and water law’s cold truth
A letter from the editor of Aspen Journalism and roundup of original stories: Dealing with the world as it is in three different settings.
