Editorial staff

David O. Williams
Senior Reporter
davido@realvail.com
David O. Williams is an award-winning journalist who has covered
energy, environmental and political issues for the Colorado
Independent since the spring of 2008, including the Democratic
National Convention in Denver in August of that year. He has delivered
impact reporting for the American Independent News Network on topics
as varied as uranium mining, irregularities in rural electric co-op
elections, and oil and gas drilling spills and contamination.

A Vail-based reporter, Williams’ work has appeared in numerous
newspapers and magazines both regionally and nationally since 1988,
including the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Denver Post. An
accomplished outdoor writer, Williams has written extensively about
public lands, water and outdoor recreation issues, and he has covered
the last three Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City; Torino, Italy; and
Vancouver, British Columbia.

Williams periodically appears as a guest on Rocky Mountain PBS and
David Sirota’s radio talk show on 760 AM in Denver. Williams is also
the founder, part owner and editor of the Real Vail and Real Aspen
websites.

John Tomasic
Senior Reporter
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.

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

Scot Kersgaard
Editor
scotkersgaard@gmail.com

Scot has been a journalist since wandering into the office of his college newspaper, ostensibly on other business. He worked at newspapers in Sun Valley and Vail before migrating down to a city job in Denver.

He was an outdoors columnist at The Rocky Mountain News and has also worked for a U.S. Senator, run a chain of high-tech magazines, and done corporate pr and speechwriting.

He wrote his first story for The Colorado Independent in early 2010 as a freelancer. He joined the staff as a part-time reporter in June 2010, became a full-time reporter in September 2010 and was named editor in January 2011.