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Regan Mertz joined The Aspen Times as a reporter covering Pitkin County, the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport, Basalt and more in July 2024. Having never been to Colorado before moving for the job, she has quickly fallen in love with the natural beauty of and the kind people in the Roaring Fork Valley. An army brat, she has lived in nine different states and was born in Alabama but considers Missouri her home. Before moving West, she was living in Columbia, Missouri, and working at KRCG 13, a TV station.
She graduated from the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism, earning her Master of Arts in Documentary and Photojournalism in December 2022. She received her Bachelor of Journalism in Radio and Convergence Journalism from the Missouri School of Journalism in May 2021. Throughout college, Regan worked at the University of Missouri’s student newspaper, The Maneater, and was published in every Missouri School of Journalism publication.
Regan spent her summers at the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon, the Missouri Information Corps and the Gateway Journalism Review, as well as a fellow for the Reynolds Journalism Institute, where she worked for The Oregonian and South Dakota Public Radio. During her last semester in graduate school, Regan worked in Washington, D.C., at the Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival and Symposium and at the Library of Congress as a research assistant for the Watchdog Writers Group.
Regan is a White House Correspondents’ Association scholarship recipient and a Missouri Broadcasters Association, an Edward R. Murrow and a Missouri Press Association Better Newspaper award winner. She has covered everything from conservation and the environment, to infrastructure and transportation, to arts and culture, to local and state politics. When not covering these beats, Regan enjoys trying out new hikes with her dog Oogie and reading with her cat Margo. She is looking forward to trying out skiing for the first time this winter.
Recent Articles
October 24, 2024 - Federal Aviation Administration returns Airport Layout Plan to Pitkin County for approval
October 23, 2024 - Snowmass town council, Pitkin County commissioner candidates put in the hot seat during Snowmass Squirm Night
October 23, 2024 - Snowmass mayoral candidates go head-to-head at Snowmass Squirm Night
October 22, 2024 - Federal Aviation Administration expresses concern over ballot question 200 in letter to Pitkin County
October 22, 2024 - Pitkin County to see several engineering projects in 2025