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Portrait of Lindsay Fendt

Lindsay Fendt

Reporter

Lindsay Fendt is an award-winning freelance journalist and photographer. She covered health and the environment as a former staff writer and photographer for The Tico Times in San José, Costa Rica. In 2017 she moved to Colorado for the Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism to work on a project about the global rise of murders of environmentalists. Her work on this topic will be released as a book in 2021. Lindsay’s other work has been published in The Guardian, bioGraphic, U.S. News and World Report, Univision, Al Jazeera and Vice News among others.

Recent Posts

  • Imagine wearing a mask in a 94-degree classroom in Denver. That’s what some schools might have to endure come summertime.

    Lindsay Fendt
    Mar. 18, 2021, 5:00 am
  • Air pollution could make COVID-19 worse. That’s put Elyria-Swansea on edge.

    Lindsay Fendt
    Dec. 16, 2020, 4:00 am
  • As Troy Riggs leaves Denver’s top public safety post, his goal for more empathetic policing leaves questions

    Lindsay Fendt
    Jan. 20, 2020, 5:30 am
  • Business closures signal change on South Pearl, including a potential mandate for street-level activity

    Lindsay Fendt
    Jan. 17, 2020, 2:23 pm
  • Denver district attorney says August 2019 police shooting that killed Juan Carlos Macias was an act of self-defense

    Lindsay Fendt
    Jan. 15, 2020, 1:27 pm
  • $200,000 worth of murals celebrating weeds — not weed — will grow on vintage Lakewood apartment complex

    Lindsay Fendt
    Jan. 15, 2020, 5:30 am
  • Chatting with first-timers at the National Western Stock Show Parade

    Lindsay Fendt
    Jan. 09, 2020, 3:43 pm
  • Hill Middle School kids will be learning poetry and performance from Suzi Q. Smith

    Lindsay Fendt
    Jan. 08, 2020, 4:21 pm
  • Ethics board says Denver’s chief building officer used his public position for private gain

    Lindsay Fendt,Esteban L. Hernandez
    Jan. 08, 2020, 4:02 pm
  • Two of Denver’s favorite ice cream shops melt into one

    Lindsay Fendt
    Jan. 07, 2020, 3:00 pm
  • From high in the Rockies to the South Platte, here’s where Denver gets its water

    Lindsay Fendt
    Jan. 02, 2020, 11:11 am
  • Denver recycling contractor won’t accept gift wrap

    Lindsay Fendt
    Dec. 26, 2019, 5:03 pm

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