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The Roundup | Infrastructure includes trails and turbines
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 […]
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The Roundup | What’s in the water?
Test results show high iron and aluminum when Lincoln Creek and the Roaring Fork ran orange In September 2022, Aspen Journalism reported on a local, state and federal agency investigation into what was fouling the waters of Lincoln Creek. By November 2023, findings pointed to elevated heavy metals concentrations that were naturally occurring, and in […]
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The Roundup | AJ honored with statewide awards for collaboration and environmental reporting
This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the Colorado Press Association’s annual convention. The Local News Solutions 2024 gathering held Aug. 22-24 in a hotel conference center in a north Denver suburb delivered on its thematic premise — that strategies exist to strengthen and sustain local journalism. Chief among them is collaboration. Despite […]
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The Roundup | Wildlife, compost, clean water and conservation tracking
Aspen Journalism water and environment desks ponder critical questions this summer.
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The Runoff | Reclamation’s cool water releases sound fishy to these scientists
Welcome to The Runoff, where Aspen Journalism’s Water Desk provides insider news and water-related updates you won’t read anywhere else, with additional context and updates on our most recent reporting. Thanks for going deeper with us and for supporting our nonprofit, in-depth, investigative reporting. – Heather SackettWater Desk Editor and Reporter ‘We’re reengineering the river […]
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The Roundup | Housing reporting grounded in data, rooted in lived experience
In January 2023, Aspen Journalism published a two–part investigative analysis of the 1,650 or so units making up the ownership inventory of the Aspen Pitkin County Housing Authority, from AJ data editor Laurine Lassalle and longtime freelance collaborator Catherine Lutz. The idea behind the project was to take stock of the component parts of what […]
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The Roundup | Greater Roaring Fork fates intertwined
Greater Roaring Fork fates intertwined 10-part “In search of community” series concludes, equating housing with social justice Recently at Aspen Journalism, we concluded our 10-part “In search of community” series from Paul Andersen with a look at how a growing movement is treating the scarcity of affordable housing as a social justice issue and moral […]
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The Runoff | Using less of the Colorado River takes a willing farmer and $45 million in federal funds
A special edition of The Runoff, the Aspen Journalism Water Desk newsletter. On Thursday we published a collaboration with KUNC’s Colorado River reporter Alex Hager about a controversial water conservation program in the Upper Basin.
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The Roundup | Land, water and fish management
A note from Elizabeth Stewart-Severy, reporter for two-part series on North Star Nature Preserve North Star nature preserve The North Star Nature Preserve of my youth is long gone. Back then, we called it Stillwater, and I, like so many others at the time, first floated that stretch of flat river with the very specific […]