Hello!

My name's Robert, thanks for stopping by. 

A bit about me: I'm currently a Colorado politics reporter for Swift Communications, the newspaper group that owns Vail Daily, Aspen Times, Summit Daily News and other papers in the Rocky Mountain region. I cover the state legislature, governor's office and our federal lawmakers in Congress, with a focus on news that impacts western Colorado. 

Previously, I worked as a reporter for Colorado Community Media in the Denver suburbs, where I covered local government, business and education. 

During my time at both publications, I won several state and regional awards. A 2023 story on a mobile home community that went nearly two months without reliable running water was awarded first place for best news story at the 2024 Colorado Press Association conference. 

A 2022 investigative story on car crashes spurred by police chases in the Denver suburbs won a second-place award for enterprise reporting during the Society of Professional Journalists contest in 2023. 

Before that, I served as an investigative reporting fellow for News21 during summer 2021. The program, based out of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism in Phoenix, Arizona, sent journalists across the U.S. for an in-depth series on the impacts of COVID-19. The series placed as a finalist in the 2021 Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards.

As an undergraduate at the University of Colorado Boulder, I worked at the online student newspaper, the CU Independent, where I served as a staff writer, news editor and editor-in-chief. I hold a bachelor's degree in journalism.

Have a look at some of my work and feel free to reach out through my contact page. I'd love to chat!