Dennis Huspeni, 41, is a native of Denver , Colorado . He started working for his high school newspaper at J.K. Mullen High School in 1982 .
His journalism career continued with an internship at the Boulder Daily Camera in 1987, which led to paid positions as a calendar editor and compositor (back in the days when pages were printed on film!). He earned an internship at the Denver Post in his senior year at the CU School of Journalism and Mass Communication and graduated with a degree in News/Editorial in 1991.
Huspeni’s first newspaper job was covering cops, courts, city and county government for the Moscow-Pullman Daily News in Moscow , Idaho – home of the University of Idaho . Upon moving back to Colorado in 1994, he became The Denver Post’s southern Colorado correspondent, covering all major breaking news and trend stories. He was hired by the Gazette in 1995 and wrote more than a thousand stories in his three years there.
While following his wife’s career around the country, Huspeni wrote freelance pieces for The Dallas Morning News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Returning home in 2004, Huspeni was hired by the Colorado Springs Gazette. He soon was promoted into covering the Legal Affairs beat for the Gazette and won two major awards in his time there (please see resume). His reporting led to a criminal charge against the then Fourth Judicial District Attorney for mis-using taxpayer’s money. Huspeni’s investigation into a bad El Paso County Sheriff’s deputy led to the Gazette suing the EPSO to gain access to the deputy’s internal affairs file – a case that was upheld by the Colorado Supreme Court.
Huspeni is currently working on a novel about one of the most fascinating criminal cases in Colorado Springs ’ history, where a young couple was convicted of burning their three children alive in their suburban Colorado Springs home for meth money.
Huspeni is married to Clare Huspeni, a vice president at Charles Schwab, and has two children, Brittany, 15, and Elese, 12.
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