About Stephanie Ogburn

OGBURN, STEPHANIE is the online editor at the High Country News, a 25,000-circulation magazine that covers the 11 Western states. She manages pretty much every aspect of HCN online and is responsible for enhancing HCN's web presence and online storytelling.  She also edits and manages HCN’s Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr communities and community blogs. In addition to her work for the High Country News, she freelances for other print and online publications, including Grist.org. She has a Masters of Environmental Science from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and was Yale Journalism Fellow in 2007. She  previously worked as a daily reporter for the Cortez Journal in southwest Colorado. Stephanie moved to Paonia, Colo. in November 2010 to work full time as the online editor for High Country News. She enjoys being a volunteer deejay at her community radio station, cooking and canning fresh local food, and backpacking on the Colorado Plateau and in the Colorado mountains.

• Occupation: Web editor, freelance writer
• Organization: High Country News
• Location: Paonia, CO 81428 USA
• Website: http://www.hcn.org/
• Twitter: @highcountrynews
• Facebook: highcountrynews
• Delicious: spogburn
• Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/hcncommunity/
• Skype: spogburn (Call me!)
• Was accepted for Jan 10-15 2010 Multimedia Training.

Stories

Digital media stories published elsewhere by Stephanie Ogburn:

• Audio librarian Jeff Rice captures the sounds of the West [edit]
  An audio slideshow in which Jeff Rice discusses how he collects sound and plays some of the sounds from the Western Soundscape Archive.
• Wilderness Photographer [edit]
  This video accompanies the piece My walkabout with Michael, in which New Mexican writer Pat Toomay shadows Guggenheim award-winning photographer Michael Berman through the Gila wilderness. This multimedia features an interview with Berman where he reads a poem about his process of going into the wild and finding images, and discusses why he became a photographer and his views on the relationship of humans to nature.
• A mobile health solution [edit]
  In Oakland and other cities in the West, traveling asthma clinics address a common problem: The people who suffer the most from pollution often have the least access to treatment. This video accompanies the story, "Breathing easy."
• How the West Balanced Its Budgets? [edit]
  Stephanie Ogburn's (Jan '10) new Flash map illustrates how deep the defecits are in many West Coast states. Fortunately, it's not all bad news, Oregon and Montana are in the black.
• UC Davis project puts conventional and organic gardening in a one-hundred-year bout. [edit]
  Stephanie Ogburn (Jan '10) produced some videos for the Agricultural Sustainability Institute (ASI) at UC Davis . The first is about an experiment to see whether tomatoes grow better with conventional or organic growing techniques. In the other a Stanford professor talks about the pros and cons of agricultural nitrogen fertilizer.
• Community Capital Helps to fund Remedy Cafe [edit]
  Stephanie Ogburn (Jan '10) produced a multimedia package on Remedy Cafe, a North Oakland coffee shop that courted investment capital from friends and customers instead of banks.

Writing

Content on this site written by Stephanie Ogburn (includes contributory writing):

• Projects

  • Arizmendi Bakery & Pizzeria Co-op
  • An overview of the local Arizmendi Bakery & Pizzeria Co-op. “We are a cooperative, a worker-owned and operated business. We make decisions democratically, sharing all of the tasks, responsibilities, benefits ...