Shannon Mullane
Shannon Mullane writes about the Colorado River Basin and Western water issues for ¶º±ÆÖ±²¥. She frequently covers water news related to Western tribes, Western Slope and Colorado with an eye on issues related to resource management, the environment and equity. Her work is funded by a grant from the Catena Foundation.
Born in East Tennessee, Shannon has been in Colorado for about a decade and is based in Durango in southwest Colorado. Before joining the Sun's team, she contributed award-winning reporting on government, environment, health and more as a staff writer for The Durango Herald and as an intern for the Colorado Independent. She has also contributed reporting and photography to High Country News, The Salt Lake Tribune, ProPublica and Collective Colorado.
During her master's program at the University of Colorado Boulder, she focused her studies on environmental issues in Colorado and the West. Shannon attained a conversational fluency in French while working as an English language teacher in southern France.
Job title: Colorado River reporter
Topic expertise: Colorado River Basin, Colorado water, tribal water, water management, environment
Location: Durango
Language(s) in addition to English: French
Education: University of Tennessee, Knoxville (BA global studies, minor: french, grad: 2014)
University of Colorado Boulder (MA in journalism, focus on environmental journalism, grad: 2019)
Honors & Awards: Shannon has received a total of 20 news awards in the Society of Professional Journalists Top of the Rockies contest and the Colorado Press Association Better News Media contest
Professional membership(s): Society of Environmental Journalists; Indigenous Journalists Association
Contact:
Email: shannon@coloradosun.com
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