Jonathan Thompson
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Jonathan P. Thompson: LandDesk.org; author of River of Lost Souls, Behind the Slickrock Curtain, Sagebrush Empire; contributing ed. @highcountrynews;
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Jonathan Thompson’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Jonathan Thompson is a native Westerner with deep roots in southwestern Colorado. He is currently at work on a book about the Animas River in southwestern Colorado and the Gold King Mine spill of August 2015. He owned and edited the Silverton Standard & the Miner newspaper in the tiny town of Silverton, Colo., and was the editor-in-chief of High Country News from 2007 to 2010. After that he lived in Berlin, Germany, and then was a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the Universit…
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See all 21 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
I was the editor of my high school newspaper. Paying job? I was the reporter/photographer/etc. of the Silverton Standard & the Miner
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes! Electric typewriter back in junior high/high school and an electric typewriter with two-lines of memory in college.
How is social media changing news?
It's breaking down the old hierarchies, for sure. It's also radically changing how we communicate and receive breaking news.