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Jim Trotter

Jim Trotter is highly regarded in Colorado journalism and beyond. He was the senior editor for investigative and enterprise journalism at the Rocky Mountain News when it closed in 2009. Since then, he has been with the Associated Press, responsible for enterprise journalism in 13 western states. Jim has edited Pulitzer Prize-winning articles and an [...]

Burt Hubbard

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 [...]

Kevin Vaughan

Kevin Vaughan, senior reporter at the I-News Network, is an award-winning journalist and author. Over his 25-year career he has written for the Fort Morgan Times, the Fort Collins Coloradoan, the Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post and has covered some of the state’s biggest stories. Among them have been the tragedy at Columbine [...]

I-News Newsroom, October 2012

Inside I-News

Here’s a snapshot I took this week of the I-News newsroom. There’s such a buzz in the newsroom these days. You can see the two newest members of our staff, reporter-extraordinaire Kevin Vaughan in the back and editor-with-the-magic-touch Jim Trotter in the foreground. Jim is working with reporter Ann Carnahan Espinola, who has teamed up [...]

Sandra Fish

Sandra Fish is a journalism instructor at the University of Colorado specializing in politics, data analysis and interactive reporting. Fish has covered politics and other topics in Iowa, Florida and Colorado, winning reporting awards at the Daily Camera of Boulder, Colo., the Colorado Independent, the Orlando Sentinel, the Florida Times-Union and the Carroll (Iowa) Times-Herald. [...]

Nat Rudarakanchana

Nat Rudarakanchana

Nat Rudarakanchana is a recent graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he specialized in politics and investigative reporting. Raised in Hong Kong but in a Thai family, he has interned for the Bangkok Post and The New Paper, with experience reporting across several Asian countries. He is currently interning for VTDigger.org, [...]

Matt Drange

Matt Drange

Matt Drange is a contributing writer for the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, where he covers money and politics. Matt is a recent graduate of the Columbia Journalism School. As a fellow at Columbia’s Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Matt reported on routine deficiencies and lax oversight of New York’s home care industry, [...]

Charlie Brennan

About the reporter….Charlie Brennan is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience, most notably as a reporter at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, where he covered an array of beats and high-profile assignments over a span of more than 20 years. Brennan’s career highlights at the Rocky Mountain News ranged from covering [...]

Ann Carnahan Espinola

Ann Carnahan Espinola

Ann Carnahan Espinola wrote more than 2,000 bylined stories during her two decades at the Pittsburgh Press and Rocky Mountain News. Her many awards include the National Education Writers Association award for distinguished reporting and the Shining Star Award, presented by the Colorado Press Association for the most consistently excellent reporter. She was part of [...]

Charlie Brennan

Charlie Brennan

Charlie Brennan is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience, most notably as a reporter at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, where he covered an array of beats and high-profile assignments over a span of more than 20 years. Brennan’s career highlights at the Rocky Mountain News ranged from covering the JonBenet [...]