Kirk Siegler

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Kirk Siegler is an American news reporter, working for National Public Radio (NPR).

Early life[]

Siegler grew up outside Missoula, Montana. After graduating from high school, he went to Boulder, Colorado, to attend Colorado University.^[1]

Early career[]

Apart from a short time working as a waiter in Sydney, Australia, Siegler has spent most of his adult life living in the West. His first reporting job came in 2003 as Montana Public Radio's first State House bureau chief. Later, he moved to Aspen, Colorado, and spent seven years working at the NPR member station KUNC and Aspen Public Radio as a reporter and, later, as Aspen Public Radio's news director. He covered the ski industry, immigration and an energy boom in western Colorado involving a major dispute over fracking. Siegler's work won numerous Edward R. Murrow and Associated Press awards in Colorado and Montana.^[2]

At NPR[]

Siegler covers the western United States for NPR's national desk, a position he has held since December 2012. Based at NPR West's studios in Culver City, California, Siegler's reporting focuses on issues including the environmental and economic impacts of the drought in California and the West. He also covers the region's disputes around land use. His assignments have covered anti-government standoffs in the region, including a 2014 interview with the Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy at Bundy's home outside Bunkerville, Nevada.^[3]

Siegler has covered wildfires while embedded with an all-Native American crew from Arizona, witnessed and reported on the aftermath of many of the most notable mass shootings in the United States, skied with the snowboarder Jeremy Jones, founder of Protect our Winters, traveled to Colombian jungles by canoe to report on the cacao industry, and descended into a volcano. He also contributes extensively to the NPR's breaking news coverage. His stories are regularly featured on Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

In 2015, Siegler was awarded an International Reporting Project fellowship from Johns Hopkins University to report on health and development in Nepal. The 2015 Nepal earthquake occurred while he was en route to the country. Siegler was one of the first foreign journalists to arrive in Kathmandu and helped lead NPR's coverage of the aftermath. He also filed in-depth reports focusing on the humanitarian disaster and challenges of bringing relief to rural villages.^[3]

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