9News reporter Chris Vanderveen will discuss the award-winning documentary “after Aurora” in a Fireside Chat at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 31, at the Denver Press Club, 1330 Glenarm Place. The program, sponsored by the Colorado Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, is free and open to the public.

The 9News Special Report, which aired in July 2013, examines how first responders reacted to the July 20, 2012, Aurora theater mass shooting. Twelve people were killed and 70 injured by a lone gunman during the midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises.” The report is a first-person account of how fire, police and paramedics prepare for the next worst-case scenario.

Vanderveen’s presentation will include an eight-minute clip from the special report which received the Sigma Delta Chi documentary award in the large market television category. The SDX awards were presented June 20 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Vanderveen graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Denver and attended the University of Colorado in Boulder. His first reporting job was at KGWC-TV in Casper, Wyo. He joined KOAA-TV in Colorado Springs in 1998 and four years later was hired at 9News. Eariler this year he was transferred to the 9Wants to Know investigative team.