Editorial staff

John Tomasic
State Editor
jtomasic@coloradoindependent.com

John Tomasic has worked as a writer and editor at various news, literary and academic publications, including at the Huffington Post, Business 2.0 magazine and Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope All-Story. He was the managing editor at OffTheBus, the Huffington Post’s path-breaking 2008 presidential-election citizen-journalism project. Before that, he was managing editor at Pop+Politics, the University of Southern California Annenberg School’s journalism training program and website. In the early 1990s, he worked as an analyst and editor for the United Nations commission established to investigate war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. He is state editor at the Colorado Independent.

John studied for a PhD in history and art history and has a master’s degree in European history. He taught at the University of Paris-Dauphine, the University of California-Berkeley and Indiana University-Bloomington. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

David O. Williams
Senior Fellow
dowilliams@coloradoindependent.com

David O. Williams worked as an editor and reporter for the Vail Daily for five years before launching a competing alt daily. The Daily Trail and weekly Vail Trail won 40 Colorado Press Awards during Williams’ nearly six-year stint as managing editor, including Best News Story for an article on a Vail man’s death in police custody in Thailand. Williams’ coverage led to disciplinary action against U.S. embassy personnel and changes in the State Department’s relative-notification policy.

Williams has freelanced for publications such as the Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times (even if it was only for the Kobe Bryant sex scandal case), Aspen Daily News, LA Weekly, and others, Williams launched realvail.com.

Joseph Boven
Writing Fellow
jboven@coloradoindependent.com

Joseph Boven most recently worked as a researcher for Colorado Media Matters. He contributed analysis of Colorado news and commentary across a variety of formats. He has also worked as the editor in chief of Twenty3 magazine and as a freelance writer, morning show director, commercial fisherman, sommelier/wine buyer. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English and psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder.