Readers: Pre-Occupied with Kelsey Whipple's coverage

Westword staffer Kelsey Whipple had been on the job just a few days when she started covering Occupy Denver -- and the beat has had its hazards, including getting shot in the ass, as she revealed in this three-month Occupy Denver retrospective...

By Patricia Calhoun

December 29, 2011

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Westword staffer Kelsey Whipple had been on the job just a few days when she started covering Occupy Denver -- and the beat has had its hazards, including getting shot in the ass, as she revealed in this three-month Occupy Denver retrospective.

Writes Notwoofka:

Interesting personal touch Kelsey...I like it. Westword definitely has the best coverage of OD in town, and it's pretty much been thanks to you.

But Nothanx doesn't appreciate her efforts -- or taking one for the team:

Lame. Kelsey whipped is trying to capitalize from the occupy. Your writings are boring and bland, go away.

The first protester Kelsey Whipple met at Occupy Denver? Corey Donahue. Read her profile of Denver's would-be Don Quixote, "Tilting at Windmills," here.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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