Steve Staeger

Went out to the entire city

COMMENTARY: Why I'm raising money for a food bank in a deep red, pro-Trump area during the government shutdown

Photos or it didn’t happen

Hi! Friendly neighborhood consumer reporter here! Let me know if you’d like me to look into this. That’s wild.

A viewer found land survey markers with “Let’s Go Brandon” and “FJB” on them in Denver’s Country Club neighborhood. We’re curious who put them there.

Heads up if you park in #Denver. We found these 10 days after someone filed a 311 complaint about them. Who knows how many people scanned them in the meantime.

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Live look at me learning Gen Z calls a hot dog a glizzy.

BREAKING: One of the victims in the Boulder firebombing attack had died of her injuries nearly a month after the attack. The DA is filing murder charges against the suspect and adding 66 counts in total.
#news #colorado #boulder #denver #breakingnews

In our competitive society, where it seems that only the strong and winners deserve to live, sport also teaches us how to lose. It forces us, in learning the art of losing, to confront our fragility, our limitations and our imperfections. It is through the experience of these limits that we open our hearts to hope. Athletes who never make mistakes, who never lose, do not exist.

spoken like a diehard White Sox fan

DIA wants to be the airport of the future. I really preferred the airport of the past.

“It could be in your fridge right now. What is it? And what will it do to you? We’ll tell you tonight at 10.”

Could a headline/graphic/post be any more clickbaity?

The nation’s 5th best splash pad (rated by @usatoday) was supposed to reopen by Memorial Day weekend, but construction delays have left the city of Centennial with no public timeline to reopen. #denver #parents #colorado #splashpad #pool #summer #splash #waterpark #fyp

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.

Hearing about some pretty disgusting tactics being used by national media to try to interview victims of the Boulder attack...including a report about a Holocaust survivors "first words spoken publicly" since the attack.

I'm told she didn't realize she was being quoted...

Hear me out. If you want to blow a few million on a bridge, I’ve got one that’s begging for an owner.

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I wish.

Denver area journalists: I’m once again asking you to look at a map before saying a company is based in Englewood.

Red Robin’s website lists an Englewood mailing address, but it’s near Dry Creek and I-25. It’s in unincorporated Arapahoe County.

Embarrassing loss for the Avalanche tonight. That’s gonna be tough to recover from. 0/6 on the PP including a double minor at the end of the hockey game.

I have questions. Like… what other species care for giraffes in this country. And how old are their giraffes?

News writers: can we eliminate the phrase “run afoul” unless the story involves a bird behaving badly?

Rented a commercial popcorn maker for my 1-year-old’s birthday party this afternoon. Currently trying to determine the safest way to operate it without destroying my home’s electrical panel.

Haha. Marshall’s on paternity leave.

I think Rhea Jha from our team was out there today.

I’ve been off all week as well. Not much help

Did you buy a Ford Lightning pickup truck this year? Having an issue with your state tax credit? Let me know.

SteveOnYourSide@9news.com