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Robert Sanchez

@milehighrobert.bsky.social
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Husband. Dad. Axios reporter. University of Denver adjunct. Former, 5280 magazine. Bylines in ESPN, Sports Illustrated and a bunch more. #Mizzou robert(dot)sanchez(at)Axios(dot)com robertsanchezwrites(dot)com

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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Thanks for including my work.
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Thank you!
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Thank you for including me.
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Thanks for including me, Mark!
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Thank you so much for that No. 1 spot, @Longreads.
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Jason Cohen @cohenesque.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Not the most fun to read but more great work by @milehighrobert.bsky.social and another reminder that city magazines still keep this kind of journalism alive 5280.com/medical-aid-...
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The Coloradans Exercising Their Right To Die—and a Doctor Who Helps Them Find Peace
More terminally ill Coloradans than ever are turning to Denver Health’s Medical Aid in Dying clinic. We spent the summer witnessing the quiet decisions and final moments of those who chose when—and ho...
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Thank you, @longreads.com!
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Why would someone choose a doctor's help to die? For @5280magazine, I spent several months with patients from Denver Health, which has one of the nation's most comprehensive medical aid in dying clinics. I hope you take time to read this: 5280.com/medical-aid-...
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The Coloradans Exercising Their Right To Die—and a Doctor Who Helps Them Find Peace
More terminally ill Coloradans than ever are turning to Denver Health’s Medical Aid in Dying clinic. We spent the summer witnessing the quiet decisions and final moments of those who chose when—and ho...
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I made my @netflix.com debut today on the Trainwreck series that includes the Balloon Boy hoax. Here's my 5280 magazine story—from way back—that got the producers interested: www.5280.com/the-balloon-...
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Jodi Ettenberg @legalnomads.com · 07/07/2025
as well as: @brockm.bsky.social on American dissonance @scottsayare.bsky.social on paleontological drama @milehighrobert.bsky.social on microdosing for mental health @henrywismayer.bsky.social on the fury of solar storms @ericlevitz.bsky.social on the decline of reading & more
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The Curious About Everything Newsletter #52
The many interesting things I read in June 2025
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Nieman Storyboard @niemanstoryboard.org · 30/06/2025
"I always feel like journalism should be more of a two-way street. I feel that especially today, the way there's just so much distrust about media. The more open we can be as journalists with our readers, [the better]." @milehighrobert.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2025/06/27/m...
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While reporting on magic mushrooms, a journalist tries microdosing and shares his own struggles - Nieman Storyboard
Robert Sanchez of 5280 magazine reports on experiments around psilocybin therapy, while also using first person to tell his own story
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Mark Armstrong @markarms.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: A lesson in first-person storytelling from @milehighrobert.bsky.social, @thelincoln.bsky.social in conversation with his book editor, and more... niemanstoryboard.org/2025/06/27/p... #longreads #journalism #booksky
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Putting the ‘I’ in storytelling - Nieman Storyboard
In reporting about psilocybin, Robert Sanchez reveals his own story. Plus: True Story Award, Roy Peter Clark, and the Liang-Zhou Nieman Fellowship
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Thank you!
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Longreads @longreads.com · 06/06/2025
3. "I Tried Magic Mushrooms for My Mental Health. Here’s What Happened." @milehighrobert.bsky.social ". . .in his observations I recognize the same quiet awe I felt that night long ago—and how a new experience can also feel like coming home to yourself." www.5280.com/i-tried-magi...
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I Tried Magic Mushrooms for My Mental Health. Here’s What Happened.
In Colorado, scientists are looking to bring psychedelic mushrooms to the masses. Could their purported healing properties help me?
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Longreads @longreads.com · 03/06/2025
"Colorado’s psychedelic movement has not only been supported by clinicians and policymakers, but it’s also increasingly embraced by private capital financiers, wellness gurus, wine moms, and tech bros." @milehighrobert.bsky.social for 5280: www.5280.com/i-tried-magi...
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I Tried Magic Mushrooms for My Mental Health. Here’s What Happened.
In Colorado, scientists are looking to bring psychedelic mushrooms to the masses. Could their purported healing properties help me?
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
For 5280 magazine, I wrote about psilocybin and the group of Colorado scientists unlocking its potential as a palliative treatment. I visited the state's first psilocybin “wellness clinic” and I microdosed the drug to show readers how it might help them. www.5280.com/i-tried-magi...
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I Tried Magic Mushrooms for My Mental Health. Here’s What Happened.
In Colorado, scientists are looking to bring psychedelic mushrooms to the masses. Could their purported healing properties help me?
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
How did a right-wing YouTube troll from New York shut down a VFW pilot program in a Colorado prison? I decided to find out. www.5280.com/everyone-lov... (5280 magazine)
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Everyone Loved a Colorado Prison’s VFW Post—Until a Popular YouTuber Heard About It
The VFW post at northeastern Colorado’s Sterling Correctional Facility was celebrated as a victory for prison reform nationwide. So why did it get canceled?
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Thank you, @longreads.com!
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
My latest for 5280 magazine: A Colorado prison was the nation's first correctional facility to get a VFW post—which paired inmates with prison employees. The prison VFW was going great... until a popular, right-wing YouTube troll found out about it. www.5280.com/everyone-lov...
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Everyone Loved a Colorado Prison’s VFW Post—Until a Popular YouTuber Heard About It
The VFW post at northeastern Colorado’s Sterling Correctional Facility was celebrated as a victory for prison reform nationwide. So why did it get canceled?
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
My latest story for 5280 magazine is on legal deserts in Colorado and how justice is elusive for lots of people who live in far-flung places. I hope you enjoy it. www.5280.com/what-do-you-...
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What Do You Call Counties Without Lawyers?
Answer: Legal deserts, and they’re no joke in rural Colorado, where a shortage of attorneys is leading to a shortage of justice.
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Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition @coloradofoic.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Looking back at the past 12 months, there weren’t a lot of wins for the public’s right to know. #coleg #copolitics
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CFOIC’s 2024 year in review: a more opaque legislature, pricier public records, closed disciplinary records, child autopsies, police officer database and CORA ‘abuse’    - Colorado Freedom of Informat...
Coloradans in 2024 lost ground in the never-ending battle for access to government information.
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
When I worked at the Rocky Mountain News, a reader emailed me: "What you gonna do when the INS comes for you?"
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I did a Q&A for 5280 magazine with a woman who runs a Colorado-based Santa school. This lady is awesome: www.5280.com/how-a-local-...
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How a Local Santa Claus School Trains Aspiring Saint Nicks
Founder Susen Mesco on what makes a good Santa, the serious questions children ask, and how adults get themselves on the naughty list.
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
These restrictions are frightening if you like the idea of an open government and an informed citizenry.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 17/12/2024
"Media companies that replace their writers with AI, continue to chase traffic by doing the same articles everyone else is doing, and focus heavily on appeasing social media platforms will continue to struggle," @jasonkoebler.bsky.social predicts.
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Declaring platform independence
"The fracturing of the internet has been painful, but it's also given us the chance to rebuild the media by focusing on our shared humanity."
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Buy @SethWickersham's book! Pre-order now. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/789617...
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American Kings by Seth Wickersham: 9781368099189 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Seth Wickersham, ESPN Senior Writer and New York Times bestselling author of It’s Better to be Feared, pulls back the curtain on the most powerful position in all of sports: the Quarterback. Quarterb...
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I have a journalism degree and I swapped out my gas cooktop without blowing up my family. Ask me anything.
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I was at Wray's baseball field three weeks ago. How funny.
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
RIP
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I've gone from a Mizzou grad to a Mizzou dad. My son is taking his immense talents to CoMo in the fall, and I couldn't be prouder/happier.
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
1996-era Tattered Cover was the best Tattered Cover.
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Jack Herrera also did this great New Yorker story on a Jesuit priest working at the border: www.newyorker.com/news/dispatc...
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The Betrayal of American Border Policy
A young Jesuit priest arrived in Texas hoping to cultivate hospitality toward migrants. During the past four years, he’s watched that possibility slip away.
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Mike Hoinski @hoinski.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
My friend just retired as the literary curator of the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University in San Marcos, and they're looking for his replacement. This is a sweeeeet job. For one, you'd be in charge of Cormac McCarthy's papers. I told you it was sweet. jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/50230
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Literary Curator, Wittliff Collections
The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University is seeking a Literary Curator to collect, preserve, and present the literary heritage of Texas and the Southwest through its major writers. Reporting...
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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 05/12/2024
Journalism friends, please share: The @denverpost.com is hiring an ace reporter to cover the ins and outs of Denver's city government, and what all that means for the people who live and work here. Full details, including pay range, at the link below. #journalismjobs
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Reporter
Summary: The Denver Post is seeking a well-rounded reporter to cover Denver city hall on its politics and public affairs team. Candidates must be self-starters and able to handle a range of topics, fr...
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
It's an end of an era at 5280 magazine, here in Denver. On to the next chapter.... www.5280.com/new-owner/
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After Three Decades As Denver’s City Magazine, 5280 Has a New Owner
Local digital media entrepreneur Charity Huff plans to grow the brand’s offerings while bolstering its flagship monthly print magazine.
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Whenever I feel down about my writing, I'm going to think about Hallmark's "Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story" and remember that someone got paid to write that.
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The Mysterious History Behind the Murders That Led Up to the Sand Creek Massacre No one really knows who killed the Hungate family, but their deaths were used to justify one of the American military's worst atrocities. www.5280.com/the-mysterio...
5280.com
The Mysterious History Behind the Murders That Led Up to the Sand Creek Massacre
No one really knows who killed the Hungate family, but their deaths were used to justify one of the U.S. military's worst atrocities.
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Glenn Stout @glennstout.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This went viral on that other place long time ago… but it still holds true #writer #writers #writingcommunity #authors verbplow.blogspot.com/2013/10/15-w...
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15 Ways to Survive as a Freelancer
1)   Get up early and write first. Don't let the day get in the way of what you have to do, and by getting up early,   if someone a...
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Join me in supporting the Columbia Missourian! mizzougivedirect.missouri.edu/fund.aspx?it... #MizzouGiveDirect
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Join me in supporting the Columbia Missourian!
Your gift will help the Missourian continue serving our communities and dig deeper into important stories.
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I'm Robert: My ninth-grade English teacher said I'd fail as a journalist.
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
My latest in 5280 magazine is "The Killing Field." It's the story of a murdered, Civil War-era pioneer family and how Coloradans used the deaths to foment atrocities against Native Americans at Sand Creek. I hope you enjoy this bit of history. 5280.com/the-mysterio...
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The Mysterious History Behind the Murders That Led Up to the Sand Creek Massacre
No one really knows who killed the Hungate family, but their deaths were used to justify one of the U.S. military's worst atrocities.
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Robert Sanchez @milehighrobert.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Oh, look. Another social-media feed.
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