My inbox is full right now after we aired a story this week about a parking enforcement company called PRRS. It started with a tip from a Denver attorney about a problem at a parking lot in LoHi. Pretty quickly we found quite a few people who had the same problem. 🧵

For the love. please put the NOT AN ACTIVE THREAT part in the top of the tweet.

RT @NellyOnAir: Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony

Love me some Mighty Mac! I miss summer Up North.

A reminder to reporters in Texas covering flooding - you don’t have to rely on statements from emergency officials about when WEA warnings were sent. Check the archive at And if you have any questions - @SamanthaBergum and I have reported on this.

Looks like phones should be blowing up east of Brighton, CO with a tornado warning. #Cowx

RT @timruss2: I may be …. combing the desert again. !!! .

Preparing a presentation for my newsroom on the wireless emergency alert system and how to report on it, and just saw this doozy sent in Grand Junction on Wednesday: "you need to evacuate due" is how that message ends.

I want it.

RT @MelBrooks: I told you we’d be back

God willing we’ll all meet again in Spaceballs 2: The Search For More Money.

RT @reporterchris: Final voting results for the 2024-25 Norris Trophy:

Start planning the parade.

One more note on this. @chrisvanderveen and I have long wanted to sit down and have a community conversation to try to figure out a better way. Can we create a model on how to best cover these stories around the country?. Any other journalists, victims, officials want to join?.

As an industry, we have to find a better way. Stop badgering people who've just been through the worst. Stop showing up unannounced. Start being trauma-informed.

I'll never quote them unless they know they're being quoted. I won't creep around their house. Unfortunately, Colorado has a history of horrific incidents and I've gotten to know a few victims. They've told me stories of the secondary trauma they feel from this kind of reporting.

I research. See if I can find an obvious family spokesperson. I send that person a message or try to call. If I can't find one, I try to send a text message or leave a voicemail explaining who I am. I'll never surprise someone. .

I've always tried to approach these stories with a trauma-informed mindset. Victims have been through one of the worst moments of their life. the last thing they want is some surprise on their doorstep begging them to sit in lights in front of a camera and tell their story.

Most local reporters I know do this much differently than our national counterparts for two reasons:. - This is our community and these are our neighbors.- We know that we'll be covering this story for the long haul.

This has happened during every tragedy I've covered. I remember vividly listening to a national reporter ask the family member of a woman killed in the King Soopers shooting if they watched a livestream of the shooting. a day after the shooting.

The reporter who wrote the story brags on his LinkedIn bio that he "parachutes in" to communities to cover crises. I don't know about you, but I'm sick of people parachuting in to my community for a "scoop" with little care for the impact their tactics have on a community.