Tess Novotny
Producer for Colorado EditionEmail: tess.novotny@kunc.org
Twitter: @tess_novotny
As a producer for Colorado Edition, I pitch segment ideas, pre-interview guests, craft scripts and cut audio. I also write tweets, build web posts and occasionally host.
I focus on bringing rural voices and issues to Colorado Edition. I see a clear bridge between holding small town power accountable and building faith in our media and democratic institutions. I want to cross that bridge, and I want to bring everyone 鈥� big city isolates and small-town lifers 鈥� along, too.
Before coming to Colorado, I worked at Oregon Public Broadcasting where I was a producer for a live, daily radio talk show called 鈥淭hink Out Loud.鈥� I also spent a year reporting on crime and courts for The Klamath Falls Herald and 暗黑爆料 in rural southern Oregon.
I grew up in Portland, Oregon and graduated from the University of Oregon in 2018 with Bachelors of Arts in journalism and political science. I first dipped into radio by hosting a weekly music show as "DJ Nebulon" on my campus station, KWVA.
When I鈥檓 not producing, I am discovering local music venues, hiking with friends and reading novels on local brewery patios.
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Ski map artist James Niehues recently announced his retirement from hand-painting ski trail maps. But Niehues is passing the torch of his craft forward to a Montana-based cartographer and illustrator. -
Breakdowns in food supply chain systems are causing shortages in breakfast and lunch programs at schools across the country, including in Colorado. -
With Election Day on the horizon, KUNC's Colorado Edition talks through some of the ballot questions Colorado voters will soon have to answer. -
A new Larimer County mask mandate requiring masks in all public indoor spaces will go into effect Wednesday at noon. The mandate, announced last Friday, is an attempt to slow rapidly increasing case numbers of COVID-19 and the Delta variant. -
The city of Aurora launched a new crisis intervention program last month. The Aurora Mobile Response Team, under the city鈥檚 Division of Housing and Community, is sending unarmed, trained mental health professionals to respond to some emergency calls. -
Hiking can be daunting for Coloradans whose bodies are not thin, white or cisgender. Rachael Gareri of Broomfield felt like an outsider when she first started hiking in Colorado. So, she started the hiking group Fat Babes In The Wild to create a community for people who felt the same way. -
The national Miss Amazing pageant celebrates women and girls with disabilities of all kinds. This year鈥檚 2021 Miss Amazing, Savanah Overturf, is from Fort Collins. She was crowned at the national competition in Nashville in July. -
In the early 20th century, thousands moved to the Front Range to work in the massive sugar beet industry. In Alta Vista, a sugar beet neighborhood northeast of Fort Collins, many settlers from Mexico and the American Southwest made their homes from adobe. One adobe home still standing today belongs to the Cordova family, who have lived in the area for more than 100 years. -
The Colorado Community College System has pledged to make secondary education more equitable and accessible to all students. But some faculty in the system feel excluded from that mission. -
In March 2021, three employees of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment accused high-level leaders in the Air Pollution Control Division of ignoring federal evaluation standards for some of the state鈥檚 major polluters, like oil and gas companies. The employees filed a formal whistleblower complaint with the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Colorado 暗黑爆料line reporter Chase Woodruff recently looked into the inner workings of APCD.
