Curtis Wackerle (Wack-er-LEE)

Aspen Journalism

Editor and Executive Director

Coverage areaEagle, Garfield, Mesa, Pitkin, Rio Blanco

Preferred pronounHe/Him/His

LanguagesEnglish

Email address

Websiteaspenjournalism.org

Instagram account@aspenjournalism

Preferred contactPrefers contact by email

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Biographical information

Curtis Wackerle is the editor and executive director of Aspen Journalism, where he leads an award winning team of staff reporters and freelancers dedicated to providing in depth and investigative journalism on complex questions of community and environment in the Roaring Fork watershed and other headwaters basins in Colorado. Curtis has also served as editor, managing editor, and reporter at the Aspen Daily News, where he covered Aspen’s city hall. He has a journalism degree from the University of Montana and lives in Woody Creek.

Journalism beat

Air Quality & Wildfires, Business & Finance, Climate & Environment, Government, Health, Housing, Politics, Rural Colorado, Water