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  • Andrea Dukakis

    Andrea Dukakis is listed on CPR’s author page as a reporter, producer and host for Colorado Matters at CPR News, the news service of KCFR-FM. If you listen to Colorado Public Radio for the longer, more conversational stories, her voice is probably one you know.

    At CPR

    CPR’s profile page says she has been with the station for nearly two decades, producing, reporting and hosting stories for Colorado Matters. Her national work includes stories for NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and she spent three years at NPR in Washington, D.C. and worked at ABC News in New York before Colorado. She holds an English degree from Princeton and a journalism master’s from Columbia.

    What the CBA credits her for

    The Colorado Broadcasters Association (CBA) credits Andrea on CPR’s Since Columbine series with Nathaniel Minor and Rachel Estabrook (2019), and on a series about how three Coloradans found solutions for chronic pain, with Ryan Warner and Rachel Estabrook (2022).

    This is a short page built from published credits and station information. If you worked with Andrea or have more to add, we would love to hear from you.

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  • Charlie Derek

    Charlie Derek is a name tied to a community event at KIQX in the Durango area. If you went to the station’s winter event in 2025, this is one of the names on the credit.

    Lowdown on Snowdown

    The Colorado Broadcasters Association (CBA) credits Charlie in 2025, with Jake Lory and Chad Peyer, for a station-sponsored community event called Lowdown on Snowdown.

    This is a short page built from a single published credit. We have not found a bio, so Charlie’s role at the station, background and dates are not listed. If you worked with Charlie or have more to add, we’d love to hear from you.

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  • Alan Jackson

    Alan Jackson is a name that turns up on promos and imaging from two Denver-area stations, KDFD-AM and KOA-AM. If you heard the “Freedom 93.7” station sound, or the KOA 100 sound, this is the name credited with it.

    Freedom 93.7

    In 2019 and 2021 the Colorado Broadcasters Association (CBA) credits Alan on Freedom 93.7 projects: a contest called “Make Your Wallet Great Again,” a campaign called “The Sound of Freedom,” and the station’s “Real News, Real Talk” imaging.

    KOA

    In 2025 the CBA credits Alan on KOA’s station imaging campaign built around “KOA 100,” and on a sports feature, “Broncos Sideline Stories with Susie Wargin,” that Alan shares with Susie Wargin.

    This is a short page built from published credits and station information. If you worked with Alan or have more to add, we would love to hear from you.

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  • Dave Jensen

    Dave Jensen is credited as the afternoon voice of RETRO 102.5 (KTRR) in Northern Colorado. If you’ve cruised Loveland, Fort Collins or Greeley during the afternoon commute with the classic hits on, you’ve likely heard Dave on the air.

    Windsor since 1997

    The RETRO 102.5 author profile says Dave is the longest-tenured employee in the Townsquare Media Northern Colorado office in Windsor, where the work started in 1997. Alongside the on-air shift, the profile says Dave writes local news and feature pieces for the station’s website, on things like Loveland pizza, the Colorado Eagles and new restaurants.

    Afternoons on RETRO

    KTRR is licensed to Loveland and serves the Fort Collins-Greeley area. It flipped to classic hits in September 2016 and became RETRO 102.5 on March 22, 2019. The Colorado Broadcasters Association (CBA) credits Dave from 2019 through 2025 on station work including RETRO Afternoons with Dave Jensen, The RETRO Drive at 5, the 80’s Party Weekend, the 102.5 Minutes of Commercial-Free Music stunt, the All Christmas and Blue Christmas holiday projects, and the station website, often with colleagues such as Christine Kapperman, Madalyn Warren, Brad Hansen and Jacob Laxen.

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  • Morgan Troy Neely

    Morgan Troy Neely is the news director at KDNK, the community radio station in Carbondale, according to the station’s staff page. If you tune in for Roaring Fork Valley news on 88.1, this is the name behind the newscasts.

    Before KDNK

    The KDNK page says Morgan previously worked at KAJX in Aspen as a news host, reporter and operations and programming director, and has substantial experience in municipal government. The page doesn’t give start dates for any of those jobs. Morgan’s on-air newscasts show up in KDNK’s daily news archive from 2022 and 2023.

    KDNK news

    The Colorado Broadcasters Association (CBA) credits Morgan in 2021 for a news feature called Goats Restore Sutey Ranch, One Bite at a Time. KDNK has been on the air since April 15, 1983, broadcasting from Sunlight Mountain near Glenwood Springs with a variety format that mixes music and local news.

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  • Julia Caulfield

    Julia Caulfield is the news director at KOTO, the community station in Telluride, according to the Aspen Public Radio profile. If you get your San Miguel County news from the mountain-town airwaves, you’ve probably heard Julia’s name signing off a story. (We can’t say how long Julia has held the title.)

    Telluride’s local newsroom

    The Colorado Broadcasters Association (CBA) credits Julia on KOTO news work every year from 2019 through 2025. The stories read like a tour of the box canyon: immigration and ICE and what they mean for a mountain town, a COVID-era graduation, a short-term rental tax that raises money for housing, rural communities shifting away from boom and bust, local law enforcement training for an active shooter, the Telluride lockdown, the town celebrating hockey state champions, goats grazing the valley floor, and ten years of good curling. Julia also shares newscast credits with Matt Hoisch, Gavin McGough and Mason Osgood, and Dominique Bruneau on the lockdown coverage.

    Beyond KOTO

    Aspen Public Radio’s site carries Julia’s bylined stories as well, including a 2024 piece on Telluride’s single-use plastics ban, a 2023 story about community opposition to a proposed solar farm near Norwood, and a 2022 story about Emily Scott Robinson’s album Built on Bones.

    We haven’t found a published bio with Julia’s start date or background. If you know more, we’d love to hear from you.

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  • Caitlin Baseggio

    Caitlin Baseggio is a name tied to a 2020 KPMX radio commercial for Better Electric, a local advertiser. If you were listening to 105.7 in Sterling during the early pandemic months, you may have heard it.

    The Better Electric spot

    The Colorado Broadcasters Association (CBA) credits Caitlin in 2020, with Bull Brom and Erin Lybarger, for a commercial titled Better Electric – Masks, on the hot adult contemporary station licensed to Sterling.

    This is a short page built from a single published credit. We have not found a bio, so Caitlin’s role at the station, background and dates are not listed. If you worked with Caitlin or have more to add, we’d love to hear from you.

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  • Bill Snivley

    Bill Snivley is a name tied to a KRSJ radio spot for the Music in the Mountains festival in the Durango area. If you heard the station’s promos for the festival’s Pops Night, this is one of the names credited on the commercial.

    KRSJ and Music in the Mountains

    KRSJ is a country station licensed to Durango on 100.5 FM. The Colorado Broadcasters Association (CBA) credits Bill in 2025, along with Kim Emanuel, for the commercial KRSJ Music in the Mountains Pops Night.

    This is a short page built from a single published credit. The spelling of the surname is as the CBA lists it. We have not found a bio, so Bill’s role at the station, background and dates are not listed. If you worked with Bill or have more to add, we’d love to hear from you.

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  • Kevin J. Beaty

    Kevin J. Beaty is described on Muck Rack as a Denver photojournalist and video reporter whose work has run on CPR News (KCFR) and Denverite. If you’ve watched or scrolled a CPR video feature about life in metro Denver, odds are good a Beaty credit was attached.

    Working between photos and video

    Kevin’s Muck Rack profile lists Reporter and Photojournalist at Denverite, with CPR also listed as an outlet, covering metro Denver and U.S. national news. The self-description is of a visual journalist who works in the blurred spaces between photography and video, making video features and photo assignments for Denver newspapers and trying new formats like live installations and digital stories that mix images, motion and sound. The background mentioned includes film school, commercial production, web development and graphic design. Outlets listed include NPR, The Denver Post, WBUR and others.

    CPR projects

    The Colorado Broadcasters Association (CBA) credits Kevin on three CPR team projects: a 2019 look at teen phone use on Instagram, a 2021 piece asking third graders in Room 132 to reflect on a year like no other, and a 2023 story where the team rode RTD trains and buses for 20 hours to talk with people who ride all day. The names are credited as Kevin Beaty and Kevin J. Beaty.

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  • Grace Hood

    Grace Hood is a journalist who has covered water, science and energy across the American Southwest, and who was named Colorado Public Radio’s energy and environment reporter in 2015. If you’ve heard CPR stories about climate change, air quality or the West’s water, this is a name that goes with that beat.

    From KUNC to CPR

    A CPR press release dated March 24, 2015 announced Grace as one of four new hires at CPR News (KCFR), launching a new energy and environment beat after six years at KUNC in Greeley.

    Climate reporting and a fellowship

    A 2020 CU Boulder profile describes Grace as CPR’s environment and climate reporter, with stories on older voters worried about climate change and scientists tracking underground mine fires, and a particular interest in citizen science projects that help measure air pollution across the West. That year Grace was a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at CU Boulder, with a focus on climate change and environmental racism. The Colorado Broadcasters Association (CBA) credits Grace on CPR’s Climate Change Variety Hour in 2019, alongside Ryan Warner and Matt Herz. We haven’t confirmed where Grace is reporting today.

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