Burt Hubbard

Burt Hubbard is the editorial director of I-News. Burt is well-known in the journalism world for his data analysis skills. His numerous awards include two prestigious Best of The West awards, a national education award for investigative reporting, and Reporter of the Year in Colorado.

He also was a top-10 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in local reporting for the Rocky Mountain News and is enshrined in the Scripps Howard Journalism Hall of Fame. Burt has taught computer-assisted reporting and internet research to graduate students for 11 years at the University of Colorado School of Journalism and Mass Communication. For the past three years he has led research symposiums for journalists and citizens throughout Colorado on behalf of the university. Burt recently left the Denver Post to join I-News.

  • Richard Iron Hammer

    How sad it is to see such a trusted and respected
    organization as PBS do a critical and seemingly in-depth piece on disparities
    only to completely ignore the most disparate of populations, the
    “Minority’s Minority”, American Indians.

    In almost every category, this segment of the population
    continues to show the most disparate rates in health, infant mortality,
    poverty, high school and college graduation, and home ownership. And yet, even
    this study has seen fit to marginalize these people right off the page.

    I am made to feel that these people are not considered
    worthy of being counted. It almost seems; that this never was their land; that
    they never existed; that they don’t exist today or; that they do not deserve to
    exist.

    Shameful!

    Still, I suppose it should not be a surprise, being that we
    live in a State where people still celebrate the name of a baby-butchering
    terrorist like Chivington by fixing his name to streets, sites, and various
    other locations, honoring a man who avowed that Colorado Indians, “have to be
    roundly whipped — or completely wiped out”(1).

    (1) http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/chivington.htm

  • Jack Frost

    Why are we not surprised that our regional PBS would step into class/racial problems by advocating
    government solutions to what might very well be natural, unchangeable differences.  Unless children are conceived by two responsible
    and committed-to-each-other adults who will raise those children in an environment that encourages and rewards
    learning and effort,  share with those children the warm, joyful, and uplifting rewards of love and respect, and
    hold before them the challenge to push themselves to their limits of learning and achievment then what we now have is what you get.  As my father used to tell us back in the Great Depression “It’s no disgrace to be poor but it is a disgrace to remain poor.”

    Richard Iron Hammer’s (is he a real American Indian or a Churchill convert?)  comments are interesting but need some in-depth context.  I grew up long ago between the Navajo and Apache Indian Reservations (my grandfather was a small off-reservation trader) in Northern Arizona on what became Route 66.  I often heard tourists comment on our environment after driving through the Navajo Reservation between Grants, New Mexico and Flagstaff, Arizona.  ”How terrible for the US Government  to put those poor Indians out in such non-productive desert land.”   Growing up there I often wondered the same thing.  Later in life I read  a copy of the “TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA & THE NAVAJO TRIBE OF INDIANS / WITH A RECORD OF THE DISCUSSIONS THAT LED TO ITS SIGNING”  (published by KC Publications, Flagstaff, Az. 1968).  I highly  recommend that every responsible, thoughtful citizen  who is being asked by PBS  to support its interpretations  of  contemporary social, educational, and financial issues  to please read it.  Then I suggest a drive through that Reservation between, for example, Farmington and Shiprock, New Mexico during the growing season and notice the difference in what’s growing on the East side of the Reservation Line and the West side, both of which have the same land and water rights from the San Juan River, but the Navajo farms on the west side were neglected and barren compared to the profit-motivated farmers on the east side.  Another read I suggest are comments  by John Greenway, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado (Boulder) back in 1969, regarding “guilt-ridden, history-distorting paleface.”

       

     

  • jbholston

    This is an awesome piece of work.  Thanks for doing it.  Sharing it everywhere.