Thomas Gounley Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

Greater Denver Area

BusinessDen is a scoop-centric business news website in Denver.I manage the newsroom of 3-4 people, as well as report and write stories myself, largely regarding commercial real estate and its intersection with city government.Stories I've broken include:- Stan Kroenke's development plans for parking lots surrounding Ball Arena- A receiver being appointed for the Wells Fargo Center, Denver's most prominent office tower- NFL linebacker Von Miller foreclosing on the man to whom he sold his Denver-area mansion- Prior to closing, the specific buyers of multiple prominent local properties, including Larimer Square, Pepsi's 30-acre site in RiNo, the former Johnson & Wales campus in Park Hill, Denver Mart property in Adams County, etc. (No press releases were involved - just source work)- Amazon's kickback lawsuit against Denver developer Brian Watson/Northstar Commercial Partners, as well as the existence of a related law enforcement investigationI joined the staff as the senior reporter in October 2017, and gradually transitioned to managing the newsroom, reporting directly to the publication's founder and owner.Email: thomas@businessden.com

Springfield, Missouri Area

I do occasional freelance reporting work. I have written features:- for BuzzFeed, about an earthquake prediction that didn't come true- for Vice, about an attempt to create an atheist utopia in the Midwest- for Atlas Obscura, about the 1953 cobra scare in a Missouri city- for Food+City magazine, about mines turned into underground business parks

Springfield, Missouri Area

I worked for the the daily newspaper in Springfield, Missouri, for about five years.I ended as the watchdog reporter for economy and growth, and prior to that covered the city government and business beats. I also spent two years managing the newsroom's main social media accounts.A couple enterprise highlights:I identified the woman who designed the "Jazz" pattern on disposable Solo cups in the wake of it attracting a cult following. That story attracted more than a quarter million readers.I wrote "The Man Who Reinvented Meth," a seven-part series on the Missouri man credited by federal law enforcement with pioneering the "Nazi method" of manufacturing methamphetamine in the 1990s. The method subsequently spread across much of the country, fueling the meth epidemic that ravaged the central United States in the coming years.

Durham, New Hampshire

As executive editor of the University of New Hampshire's student newspaper, I led a staff of 25 to the publication’s first-ever National Pacemaker Award. Staying up until 2 a.m. putting out the paper twice a week with the staff is what made me want to go into journalism.

Fort Knox, Ky

I spent the summer of 2011 living on an Army base. I covered Operation Bold Leader, in which college students spend four weeks training at Fort Knox. I wrote feature stories on cadets and cadre members, pitched story ideas, composed headlines and collaborated with photographers. My story "Showing up for training, in lime-green boots" was the only one written by an intern to place in the Army-wide Maj. Gen. Keith L. Ware Public Affairs Competition that year.

Sag Harbor, Ny

After my sophomore year of college, I spent a summer living in the Hamptons. It wasn't the celebrity lifestyle. Two other interns and I were the only 24/7 staffers on a small wildlife refuge outside of Sag Harbor that had its own private beach. Our main priority was the endangered piping plovers that nested on the beach. But most visitors came because they knew other birds on the refuge would eat out of their hand.

Gorham, New Hampshire

I lived in the backcountry of the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire for 10 to 11 days at a time, hiking in all my food on day one and sleeping in a canvas tent. Then I'd come out and have three or four days off. It is probably one of the most unique jobs in America, and it was an experience I'll remember forever.