Curtis Robinson

For good or ill, Curtis is very likely the most experienced media startup consultant in America. He met Hunter in the 90s when HST was involved in local politics and Curtis was editor of the Aspen Daily News. Along with becoming the first editor of Aspen.com News and helping re-launch the Mountain Gazette magazine, he has managed, conceived and launched publications and provided crisis communications consulting for some of the world's largest companies, including Thomson, Harte-Hanks, WPP and others. He has written more than 5,000 published articles and worked on several Hunter books, most notably helping review letters and select content for Kingdom of Fear, the first installment of HST's collected correspondence.

On the political front, he has conducted more than 100 grassroots issues campaigns and worked with organizations across the political spectrum. He is a founding member and current chair of the Editorial Advisory Board of Aspen Journalism, the non-profit investigative journalism outfit celebrating its second half-decade of survival.

He has worked with several documentary projects, earning a producer credit with Wayne Ewing's "The Outsiders of New Orleans: Loujon Press" about New Orleans publishing icon and Bukowski-discoverer Gypsy Lou Webb. He also appears in Ewing's "Rum Dairy Back-Story" series about the editing of Hunter's novel and the subsequent Johnny Depp film based upon the book. His installment of the series for a real-world premier at The Clocktower venue in New York remains a high water mark and primary justification for Western Civilization.

Along with the Hunter-Gatherer podcast, he is producing and directing a documentary about the real world of competitive barbecue in advance of the nation's first "champion of champions" barbecue cook-off this fall in New Orleans. For more, see his High White Noise company website.