{"id":2456962,"date":"2020-04-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=324001"},"modified":"2020-04-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T06:00:00","slug":"from-the-aspen-times-weekly-editor-were-still-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/from-the-aspen-times-weekly-editor-were-still-here\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Aspen Times Weekly editor: We\u2019re still here"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/0001-734x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/0001-734x1024.jpg 734w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/0001-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/0001-768x1072.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/0001-1101x1536.jpg 1101w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/0001-1468x2048.jpg 1468w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/0001-scaled.jpg 1835w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">You\u2019ll notice an addition to The Aspen Times daily print edition today. The Aspen Times Weekly, our long-running news magazine, is running as an insert in the daily paper rather than publishing on its own and distributing in its own racks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Starting with this week\u2019s issue, the Weekly will run as a 12-page section in The Aspen Times on Thursdays, rather than as a standalone magazine. We will continue to bring you the thoughtfully written and artfully designed stories and columns that are the ATW signature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The reason for the temporary move is that we, like all businesses and like all advertising-dependent media, have been hard hit by the economic fallout of the novel coronavirus pandemic. With a fraction of advertising revenue coming in, all of us at the Times have taken staff-wide salary cuts and accepted reduced schedules for hourly workers. We\u2019ve trimmed our page counts, and we\u2019ve now moved the Aspen Times Weekly and the Snowmass Sun into the daily paper. We\u2019re tightening our proverbial belts like most of you reading this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Weekly will continue to connect this community and tell its story with words and photos by Aspenites for Aspenites and aspiring Aspenites around the world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"row at-donation at-donation-mobile p-0\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/at-banner-paypal.jpg)\" class=\"col-xl-8 p-3 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/donate\/?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_campaign=donation&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=mid-article\">Donate<\/a><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">We\u2019ll continue to roll out thoughtful and thought-provoking news features, profiles and photo essays like this week\u2019s cover story from Aspen Times photographer Kelsey Brunner. She offers a historic snapshot of the month coronavirus changed Aspen. In recent weeks, our cover stories have taken a deep dive into the lessons of the 1918 flu outbreak in Aspen, told the story of international J-1 visa holders trying to get home from Aspen during the pandemic and recounted the historic final days of the 2019-20 ski season before the lifts were closed by an unprecedented governor\u2019s order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Aspen Times Weekly\u2019s stable of columnists have likewise dug in and offered relevant, useful, frequently enlightening \u2014 and sometimes diverting \u2014 perspective on the crisis: \u201cMalibu\u201d Kelly Hayes on wine, Amanda Rae on food culture, May Selby\u2019s chronicles of Aspen social life, Katie Shapiro on cannabis, Shannon Asher\u2019s reports from the millennial field and Sean Beckwith and Ben Welch\u2019s \u201cWriting Switch\u201d will all live on in the pages of the Weekly, along with my column on the arts scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It is our job to tell the story of Aspen and to reflect local life, our mission to connect this valleywide community in good times and in bad. In the pages of the Weekly in the issues to come, we\u2019ll provide news you can use to navigate this often overwhelming moment, we\u2019ll vent about these trying times, we\u2019ll mourn and grieve, we\u2019ll highlight the good where we find it, and we\u2019ll still be here when times get good again. We look forward to telling the comeback story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Columns devoted to wine, weed and food culture may have once seemed like markers of Aspen\u2019s frivolity and decadence. As we all know, and as government officials have confirmed in these strange times, these industries are \u201cessential services.\u201d So is the news media. There are essential stories to tell right now about these pillars of Aspen life and the Aspen Times Weekly will continue to tell them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">We\u2019re not doing this because it\u2019s profitable; it isn\u2019t right now. We\u2019re not doing it because we can afford to; we can\u2019t, long-term. We\u2019re doing it because we believe the story of this community still needs to be told. And we\u2019re doing it as an act of faith. We have faith that Aspen will bounce back and that there will be a day when the gondola is carrying us back up Aspen Mountain, when you and everyone you know and a few thousand visitors will gather in fields and tents at a summer festival here, when there will be races and apr\u00e9s and concerts and closing day parties and art openings and full shopping bags and goggle tans and man fur. There may be a line out the door at Big Wrap, traffic extending past the roundabout, construction buzzing downtown, planes crowding Sardy Field, and some of us complaining about all of it as life returns to our version of normal. Until then, we\u2019re not going anywhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">And when this community comes back, we have faith the Aspen Times Weekly will again be economically viable as a standalone magazine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Weekly, like all of The Aspen Times\u2019 papers and magazines, is free both in print and online. But, of course, it costs money to gather news and shoot photos, to keep the best writers in town as our columnists, to design and print and deliver, to publish online and interact with readers on social media. In this extraordinary time, we\u2019ve begun accepting donations for the first time to support our editorial payroll. If you like what The Aspen Times does, and you are in a position to support us, you can find a \u201cDonate\u201d button on the main navigation bar at <a id=\"N0x207ae70N0x20b40c0:N0x207ae70N0x2271158\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/\">aspentimes.com<\/a> and a \u201cSupport Local Journalism\u201d box at the bottom of stories online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">We\u2019re grateful for your support. And we are honored to tell this community\u2019s story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\">Andrew Travers is the editor of the Aspen Times Weekly and arts editor of The Aspen Times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/from-the-aspen-times-weekly-editor-were-still-here\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ll notice an addition to The Aspen Times daily print edition today. 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