Robert Tann

Robert Tann is a regional reporter for the Colorado mountain newspaper group that includes Summit Daily News and its sister papers in VailAspenSteamboatWinter Park and Glenwood Springs, Grand County and Craig. He is based out of Summit County and joined the regional team in August 2024 covering housing and real estate, outdoors and recreation, ski industry and transportation.

Previously, he worked as a local reporter for Summit Daily News From December 2022 through August 2024. In that role, he covered county government, education and housing. Before that, he worked at Colorado Community Media and covered local politics, education, business and more for communities across the Denver Metro area.

During his time at both publications, Robert won several state and regional awards. In 2023, he won a first-place award for news reporting and a first-place award for education reporting from the Colorado Press Association as well as a second-place award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Robert also 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.

Robert holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado Boulder where he also served as editor in chief of the online student paper, the CU Independent.

When not reporting, Robert enjoys hiking, camping and skiing in Colorado’s High Country. He has a particular love for the Southwest and can never pass up a trip to Moab.

Recent Articles

September 23, 2024 - Hear what Western Slope candidates running for state, federal office said at a recent 2024 Colorado election debate

September 6, 2024 - See when and where Colorado’s fall colors will peak this year

September 4, 2024 - Hikes of Colorado’s 14ers in 2023 dropped to lowest level in nearly a decade, report shows

August 25, 2024 - Has Proposition 123 — Colorado’s voter-approved affordable housing fund — made a difference in high-cost mountain towns?

August 18, 2024 - As Colorado’s tourism economy booms, recreation leaders ask: Are current trends sustainable? 

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