Hello!

My name's Robert, thanks for stopping by. 

A bit about me: I'm currently a Colorado statehouse 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 other goings-on in Colorado's political world that impact the High Country. 

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. An in-depth story on the fentanyl crisis in south metro Denver won a 2023 first-place award for news reporting from the Colorado Press Association. Another investigative story on car crashes spurred by police chases won a 2023 second-place award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists.

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!