Katie Kuntz, an award-winning investigative reporter with Rocky Mountain PBS I-News, will be featured in a Fireside Chat at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15, 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.

Kuntz will discuss her recent “The Business of Elections” and other I-News stories. The elections coverage focuses on television campaign ads in Colorado’s key U.S. Senate race and state ballot issues.

Kuntz also has reported extensively about Colorado’s marijuana industry and for the I-News “Losing Ground” series which examines the social and economic disparities that separate the state’s black and Latino residents from their white counterparts.

A multimedia journalist with a background in radio, television, documentary filmmaking and newspaper reporting, Kuntz produced award-winning work while at the University of Iowa and with The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism and IowaWatch.org. She won the 2014 SPJ Region 7 online reporting Mark of Excellence Award for “Breaking the Cycle: Meth Addiction in Council Bluffs.”

Metered street parking is available in front of and near the Press Club on Glenarm Place. The meters accept credit cards. Parking is also available in a public lot on the southwest side of the Press Club.