Michelle P. Fulcher

Colorado Matters Radio & Digital Producer

@MPFulcher[email protected]

Michelle Fulcher is a producer for Colorado Matters. She has reported at a Denver business weekly, at the Colorado Springs Gazette and The Denver Post where she served as a state and local government reporter, an assigning editor, city editor and national/international editor.

Education:
Bachelor's degree in journalism, University of Colorado Boulder.

Professional background:
Michelle first joined Colorado Public Radio in 2007 and was part of the "Colorado Matters" team for five years. She then worked at CU-Boulder as communications director for the College of Media, Communication and Information before returning to CPR in 2016. Michelle began her reporting career at a Denver business weekly, spent five years at the Colorado Springs Gazette and later moved to The Denver Post where she served as a state and local government reporter, an assigning editor, city editor and national/international editor.

Awards:
As city editor at The Denver Post, Michelle helped lead the newspaper to a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the mass shootings at Columbine High School.

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‘Ghosts on the Glacier’ explores 1973 expedition that ended in deaths of two mountaineers

In 1973, Denver teacher and mountaineer Janet Johnson died atop a frozen peak called Aconcagua on the border between Chile and Argentina. A fellow climber also died. Their bodies had to be chiseled out of the ice for burial. Ever since, people have wondered: was this an accident or murder? Then in 2020, a melting glacier gave up a clue: the teacher’s camera– carrying the last photographs she took.
By Michelle P. Fulcher