Curtis Wackerle
Editor at Aspen Journalism
Editor of Aspen Journalism. "The best investigative reports are those that force us to come to terms with our failings." — Daniel Schorr
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2 weeks ago |
aspenjournalism.org | Catherine Lutz |Laurine Lassalle |Curtis Wackerle
There have never been more billionaires in the world—3,028, by Forbes’ count, crossing the 3,000 threshold for the first time in 2025. It stands to reason that there also have never been more billionaires in Aspen, their collective influence shaping the community’s social fabric. How many billionaires are there with ties to Aspen and Pitkin County?
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2 weeks ago |
aspenjournalism.org | Catherine Lutz |Laurine Lassalle |Curtis Wackerle
There have never been more billionaires in the world—3,028, by Forbes’ count, crossing the 3,000 threshold for the first time in 2025. It stands to reason that there also have never been more billionaires in Aspen, their collective influence shaping the community’s social fabric. How many billionaires are there with ties to Aspen and Pitkin County?
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3 weeks ago |
aspenjournalism.org | Curtis Wackerle
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 is the result of collaboration across newsrooms and benefitting from the expertise of journalists and broadcasters.
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1 month ago |
aspenjournalism.org | Curtis Wackerle
This week in the Roundup, Aspen Journalism takes you inside a high school classroom where a local nonprofit is working to get “upstream” of domestic and sexual abuse in order to stop it before it starts, while Roaring Fork Valley agencies contemplate just how much they can — and to what extent they should — step in to pick up the slack for the federal government as the White River National Forest faces significant staffing and budget cuts entering the summer recreation season.
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1 month ago |
aspenjournalism.org | Curtis Wackerle
Happy off season and thanks for reading the Roundup — the best way to stay up to date on all of Aspen Journalism’s reporting.
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Marble has a tricky issue on its hands. Fascinating study of a unique gateway community grappling with intensifying impacts. Important work underway is helping to define the problem, map out solutions.
A stakeholder group is learning there are significant barriers to enacting a permit system for recreational use of the USFS roads. "it’s not a realistic response and we talked at length about why that is,” says a facilitator. https://t.co/6GAPZ7XoOW
RT @AspenJournalism: Protection of the historic riverside ranch near Carbondale anchors a unique habitat and speaks to future open space ne…
RT @ACESaspen: Thank you @CurtisWackerle and @AspenJournalism for a fantastic article about @photogpedro's new book, "Seeing Silence: The B…