Regan Mertz is now a journalist for Aspen Public Radio’s Arts & Culture Desk. Before that, she was a reporter at The Aspen Times. Mertz graduated from the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism, earning a Master of Arts in Documentary and Photojournalism in December 2022. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in May 2021. Throughout college, Regan worked at every J-School publication, including the local NPR station.
Mertz also interned with the Missouri Information Corps, a pop-up newsroom that reported on COVID-19 during the first summer of the pandemic, freelanced for the Gateway Journalism Review and worked at the Reynolds Journalism Institute where she created a podcast for The Oregonian and an interactive audio map for South Dakota Public Broadcasting.
During her time with WWG, Mertz was also working working at the Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival and Symposium in Washington, D.C..
