{"id":1311846,"date":"2019-06-26T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/meet-your-new-community-newspaper-editor\/"},"modified":"2019-06-26T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T02:04:00","slug":"meet-your-new-community-newspaper-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/meet-your-new-community-newspaper-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet your new community newspaper editor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kyle Mills<\/strong>
Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Hello Rifle and Garfield County. I wanted to take a little bit of time to introduce myself.<\/p>\n

My name is Kyle Mills, and I am the new editor of The Citizen Telegram serving western Garfield County.<\/p>\n

My wife Angela and I recently purchased a home here in Rifle, along with our daughter; we have lived in Garfield County for two years now.<\/p>\n

I grew up in a Jerome, Idaho, a small farm community very similar to Rifle and the surrounding area, just not as close to the mountains.<\/p>\n

The son of a fourth-generation farmer, my blue-collar parents raised my three brothers and me to work hard and follow our passions.<\/p>\n

Being the youngest, I knew my chances of taking over the family farm were slim, and at an early age I decided that I wanted to document and tell people\u2019s stories through photos.<\/p>\n

With the help of my high school yearbook teacher, I chose to work in the newspaper field covering local communities. I was able to cover several events for my local weekly, the North Side News, and still remember the pride I felt seeing my first photo published in newsprint.<\/p>\n

After earning an associate degree from College of Southern Idaho and a bachelor\u2019s degree from Western Kentucky University, I spent a year interning at daily newspapers in Idaho and later Indiana.<\/p>\n

May career path took me back to Idaho once again, landing my first full-time journalism job in Lewiston, Idaho, at the Lewiston Tribune.<\/p>\n

For 17 years, I covered Lewiston and the surrounding communities as a staff photographer.<\/p>\n

I learned what community journalism is all about \u2014 meeting community members and telling their stories \u2014 covering town and local school sporting events.<\/p>\n

That is where I learned the true meaning of community journalism.<\/p>\n

In order to truly tell a community\u2019s story you must be a member of the community.<\/p>\n

I retired from my staff photography position in 2017 to follow the love of my life to the great state of Colorado.<\/p>\n

The first year in Colorado I did odd jobs and picked up a few freelance jobs with local papers, but mainly I enjoyed the beauty that is the Western Slope.<\/p>\n

But something was missing; I felt the pull to return to storytelling.<\/p>\n

Ink runs through my blood, and I jumped at the chance to become a member of Swift Communications a year ago.<\/p>\n

For the last year I have been working as the features\/creative editor at the Post Independent in Glenwood Springs.<\/p>\n

There, I have been covering human interest features, arts, entertainment and even documenting local events from Carbondale to Parachute.<\/p>\n

Something was still missing. I felt like I didn\u2019t belong to the community of Glenwood, because I didn\u2019t live there.<\/p>\n

I had been drawn to Rifle almost since the day I set foot on Colorado soil \u2014 the charm of Third Street, the rustic feel of the county fair and of course the picturesque backdrop of the Roan Plateau.<\/p>\n

When the word came that former CT editor Alex Zorn was leaving, after a short conversation with my family I decided to throw my hat in the ring.<\/p>\n

Monday marked my first official day on the job, and I hit the ground running chasing stories and filing through emails.<\/p>\n

You will be able to find me at The Citizen Telegram office in the Midland Building on Third Street in Rifle.<\/p>\n

Feel free to stop by and say hello, and if you have a story or know of someone who does, don\u2019t hesitate to call or email.<\/p>\n

I hope when you pass me on the street, you\u2019ll say hello. I look forward to meeting the community, and it will be an honor to lead your community newspaper.<\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kyle MillsChelsea Self \/ Post Independent Hello Rifle and Garfield County. I wanted to take a little bit of time to introduce myself. My name is Kyle Mills, and I am the new editor of The Citizen Telegram serving western Garfield County. My wife Angela and I recently purchased a home here in Rifle, along […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1311846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 16:34:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}