National Parks Traveler editor-in-chief Kurt Repanshek shares news from America's treasured places

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🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Kurt Repanshek is the founder and editor-in-chief of National Parks Traveler, the country's only news outlet dedicated to covering national parks and protected areas, and an early entrant to the now-growing group of nonprofit newsrooms. Repanshek joins Brian Stelter during National Parks Week to discuss his nimble operation, the significance of its nonprofit status, and the immense challenges he faces covering this broad and dynamic beat. He also touches on funding issues within the National Parks Service system, noting that "politics greatly intrude on efforts to cover the parks." Climate change is also an urgent part of the parks story, he says: From Cape Cod to the Grand Canyon, "just about everywhere you look in the national park system, there is a climate change story." To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	With local news outlets suffering from cuts, with climate change coverage becoming more
0:07.6	and more of a priority, with enormous interest in stories about the environment, who is
0:14.8	out there covering America's national parks?
0:19.6	And what's it like to be on the national park beat?
0:22.7	What's the relationship with the national park service?
0:26.1	What's going on with the government's funding of the parks?
0:29.4	And what can we learn about one man's startup that's been going on now for 16 years covering
0:36.8	all things national parks?
0:39.7	Those are some of the questions for this week's Reliable Sources podcast.
0:43.2	So let's cue the music.
0:45.5	I'm Brian Stelter and this weekly podcast is our opportunity to go in depth with media
0:51.6	leaders and newsmakers.
0:53.7	We are here to talk about how the media world works, how the news gets made, how it
0:58.6	gets covered.
1:00.3	And this week we wanted to do something a little bit different.
1:03.7	It is National Parks Week, a great excuse to celebrate the grandeur and the diversity
1:10.6	of America's national parks system.
1:14.2	And you may or may not know that there is a publication that's been out there for the
1:18.5	past 16 years exclusively dedicated to covering the national parks, not funded by the government
1:26.2	not working just to promote the parks per se.
1:30.4	But to cover the news that happens at these national treasures, we're talking about news
1:37.8	stories and podcasts and features and photos all about national parks and protected areas.
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