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Eleanor Bennett
Morning Edition Anchor and ReporterEleanor is an award-winning journalist who currently serves as “the voice” of Aspen Public Radio during "Morning Edition." She has reported on a wide range of topics in her community, including the impacts of federal immigration policies on local DACA recipients, creative efforts to solve the valley's affordable housing crisis, and hungry goats fighting climate change across the West through targeted grazing. Connecting with people from all walks of life and creating empathic spaces for them to tell their stories fuels her work.
Her reporting has been featured on NPR and The World, and she has received several statewide, regional and national awards including a 2023 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for her feature on an immigrant family who cut down their first Christmas tree together. She earned “Best News Feature” three years in a row from the Colorado Broadcasters Association, including for her stories about an education initiative to bring more Ute history and cross-cultural conversations to local schools and a citizen-science project to help understand how climate change is impacting birds. She also contributed to the award-winning series, "In The Woods: Trees and Climate Change in the Roaring Fork Valley.”
As a Morning Edition anchor, Eleanor pioneered the station’s award-winning "Outdoor Report," which highlights local flora and fauna, recreation opportunities and environmental causes in the Valley, and hosts the "Aspen Public Radio Newscast," a podcast for locals on-the-go.
Growing up in the Valley listening to KAJX in her parents’ car on the way to school, Eleanor learned the power and urgency of community storytelling. She was further captivated by the medium while interning at Aspen Public Radio after graduating from Middlebury College in 2015. From there, she covered issues of climate justice and women's empowerment for SiriusXM Radio in New York City. Eleanor also had the opportunity to work with French photographer and muralist JR to record the dreams, hopes and fears of 1,500 New Yorkers for an interactive audio-visual exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.
In 2019, Eleanor returned home to serve as producer of Aspen Public Radio’s teen-focused podcast, "Gen Z Tea." She started working full-time for the station in August 2020. Eleanor is delighted to be home in the Rocky Mountains working to shine a light on the critical issues and community voices that shape our Valley.
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Según una nueva ley, el estado tiene autoridad para analizar la calidad del agua en los parques de casas móviles y obligar a los propietarios a solucionar cualquier posible problema. El programa de pruebas comienza oficialmente este verano, pero los funcionarios estatales se adelantaron en una comunidad del valle del río Colorado que ayudó a impulsar la legislación.
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Eleanor Bennett sits down with All Things Considered Host & Reporter Halle Zander to discuss her favorite stories, her early morning hours, and the fate of local journalism.
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A new law gives the state authority to test water quality in mobile home parks and force owners to fix any issues. The testing program officially begins this summer, but state officials have gotten a head start at one community in the Colorado River Valley that helped spur the legislation.
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Basalt residents are being asked to vote on the future of the Midland Avenue streetscape project in the town’s upcoming special election on Tuesday, May 21. Aspen Daily News reporter Scott Condon talks about his recent reporting on the citizens group behind the ballot initiative, what they’re hoping to accomplish, and how the town is responding.
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Decenas de personas se reunieron en El Jebel el miércoles 1 de mayo para conmemorar el inicio de las obras del nuevo centro de tutoría para inmigrantes de English In Action. Los estudiantes y tutores que asistieron a la ceremonia esperan que el nuevo centro ayude a fomentar una comunidad intercultural.
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Dozens of people gathered in El Jebel on Wednesday, May 1 to celebrate the groundbreaking of English In Action’s new tutoring center for immigrants. Students and tutors who attended the groundbreaking hope the new center will help foster cross-cultural community.
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The short documentary won the People’s Choice Award at this year's 5Point Adventure Film Festival and will be showing at the festival's encore screening on Saturday, May 4. The film follows Triston Chaney and his Alaskan Yup'ik family as they fight to protect their culture and fishing livelihood against a proposed mining project.
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A wildfire broke out Wednesday at Elk Run Ranch south of Willits and west of Emma. The fire was contained to approximately 5 acres. The wildfire appears to have started from a permitted ditch burn and spread by windy conditions, but the incident is still being investigated.
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Caleb Waller, residente en Silt, anunció su candidatura después de que el senador estatal Perry Will le desbancara en la papeleta de las primarias del Partido Republicano en la contienda por el puesto de comisionado del condado de Garfield.
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Silt resident Caleb Waller announced his candidacy after State Sen. Perry Will unseated him on the GOP primary ballot in the Garfield County Commissioner race.