Robert Tann

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Robert Tann is the state politics reporter for Swift Communications, which includes Vail Daily and its sister papers in Aspen, Steamboat, Glenwood Springs, Craig, Summit County and Grand County. He is based out of Denver where he covers the state legislature and other Colorado politics news for the Western Slope. 

Previously, he worked as a local reporter for Summit Daily News From December 2022 through August 2024. In that role, he covered county government, education and housing. Before that, he worked at Colorado Community Media and covered local politics, education, business and more for communities across the Denver Metro area.

During his time at both publications, Robert won several state and regional awards. In 2023, he won a first-place award for news reporting and a first-place award for education reporting from the Colorado Press Association as well as a second-place award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Robert also served as an investigative reporting fellow for News21 during summer 2021. The program, based out of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism in Phoenix, Arizona, sent journalists across the U.S. for an in-depth series on the impacts of COVID-19. The series placed as a finalist in the 2021 Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards.

Robert holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado Boulder where he also served as editor in chief of the online student paper, the CU Independent.

When not reporting, Robert enjoys hiking, camping and skiing in Colorado’s High Country. He has a particular love for the Southwest and can never pass up a trip to Moab. 

Recent Articles

July 11, 2025 - How Trump’s big new law will affect clean energy tax credits, home efficiency upgrades for Colorado’s mountain towns 

July 8, 2025 - These Colorado mountain towns have a new area code: Say hello to 748

July 3, 2025 - Colorado Republicans help push Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ bill over the finish line as Democrats dissent 

July 3, 2025 - For lawmakers, an afternoon float on the Colorado River reignites an age-old question: Who gets access to the state’s streams? 

July 1, 2025 - Colorado Democrats, health care leaders decry $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts after Senate GOP passes megabill

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