Matt Stensland is a photojournalist for the Steamboat Pilot & Today. He has worked for the paper since January 2006. Matt started working at the paper as a reporter covering the town of Hayden, real estate and business. After about a year he was hired on as the newspaper's first full-time videographer. Matt has a bachelor's degree in print journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and grew up in Urbana. When not working, you will most likely find Matt soaking at either the Old Town or Strawberry Park hot springs.
Awards:
2009 Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters
1st place, news photo http://tinyurl.com/yzszbzl
3rd place, online package http://tinyurl.com/yjdn65g
3rd place, photo essay http://tinyurl.com/yfb6f3x
2009 Colorado Press Association
1st place, news photo http://tinyurl.com/yja7osq
1st place, picture/story combination http://tinyurl.com/yzhqey6
3rd place, photo essay http://tinyurl.com/yfb6f3x
2008 Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters
1st place, series http://tinyurl.com/yh4jueu
1st place, online package http://tinyurl.com/yh4jueu
1st place, feature photo http://tinyurl.com/y97pqwf
1st place, continuing photo coverage http://tinyurl.com/yh4jueu
3rd place, online package http://tinyurl.com/ylytah4
3rd place, series http://tinyurl.com/yfufvpu , http://tinyurl.com/ylytah4
3rd place, portrait http://tinyurl.com/yd8arcc
2008 Colorado Press Association
1st place, series http://tinyurl.com/yh4jueu
1st place, photo essay http://tinyurl.com/yhkuqlx
3rd place, series http://tinyurl.com/yfufvpu , http://tinyurl.com/ylytah4
2007 Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters
2nd place, online package http://tinyurl.com/ye58arz
3rd place, online package http://tinyurl.com/yc4smks
Recent Stories
Watch the game LIVE
We're experiencing technical difficulties with the feed from Legacy Stadium in Aurora. Go to KBCR.com or 1230 AM on your radio to listen to the game.
Hayden man dies after construction site accident
Man was working on project next to Slopeside Grill when fatally injured
A 29-year-old Hayden man died today after a compression cap on a water line blew off and struck him. The man was working on a construction project at the base of Mount Werner.
Man rescued from Fish Creek Falls ledge
An unidentified man sits stranded on a ledge about three-quarters of the way up the lower falls at Fish Creek Falls on Saturday evening.
Photo gallery: Balloon Rodeo Media Day
Members of the media, event sponsors and VIPs got a glimpse of this weekend's Hot Air Balloon Rodeo on Friday morning. The Hot Air Balloon Rodeo is Saturday and Sunday at Bald Eagle Lake. Balloons launch and fly from 7-9:30 a.m.
Search area narrowed
Long Lake gate will be closed to slow water in search for woman
Crews have narrowed the search area for Rebecca Green and are continuing their search today of upper Fish Creek Falls, where they hope to locate the Steamboat Springs woman missing since Saturday afternoon.
Logger lauds stimulus
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act helps to clear Routt National Forest
A loud diesel engine spews black smoke into the air as the machine it's driving carries a bundle of trees down a temporary logging road, with limbs snapping under its tires. These are the sights and sounds of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in Northwest Colorado this summer.
Deputies search home east of Hayden
Officers say marijuana, suspicious chemicals found; no arrests made
A search of a home just east of Hayden along U.S. Highway 40 netted six marijuana plants, an undisclosed amount of cured marijuana and some suspicious chemicals and liquids Friday, Routt County Sheriff's Office investigators said.
Spring is under way, but winter still looms
Steamboat Springs under a snow and blowing snow advisory until 6 p.m.
Steamboat Springs is under a snow and blowing snow advisory until 6 p.m. today, with 5 to 10 inches expected by early evening. Meanwhile, it's another powder day on the mountain. The ski area reported 10 inches of snow this morning.
Global warming happens today
That's the headline New York Times Science Editor Andrew Revkin says you will never see in his newspaper.
Old Town Hot Springs grand (re)opening set
After months of complicated construction, Old Town Hot Springs plans to open its renovated hot pools and two new water slides during a celebratory event Monday.
