Post Type Archives: Newsletters

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 […]

This week in The Roundup, two new stories from Aspen Journalism shedding light on the Greater Roaring Fork Region’s socioeconomic conditions. In her first piece for the Aspen Journalism Social Justice Desk in partnership with Aspen Public Radio, Eleanor Bennett goes under the hood of a significant new affordable housing venture led by Habitat for […]

Five newsrooms unpack five water myths Recently at Aspen Journalism, we published a story explaining one of Colorado’s most famous water law doctrines: use it or lose it. This concept looms large not only in the minds of water users, but also the general public. It’s probably one of the best-known water adages, shorthand for […]

Editor’s note: This special edition of The Roundup is being sent to all contacts to share an exciting announcement from Aspen Journalism and Aspen Public Radio. If you haven’t yet, please consider subscribing to our weekly letter from the newsroom bringing you the best of local, nonprofit and investigative reporting. Multimedia Social Justice Desk staffed […]

This week from Aspen Journalism, two stories that strike a chord, for different reasons. Elizabeth Stewart-Severy brings us a piece that resonates with the salience of recreation access as a binding community issue, especially when such access has a particular impact on youth. Another issue that affects almost everyone, central to the story, is the […]