About

For 20 years, journalist Bruce Finley has investigated local, national and international issues with on-site reporting in more than 40 countries. A staff writer for The Denver Post, he’s currently focusing on environment-related news in the Rocky Mountain West.

His work has led inside Iraq on multiple assignments - under dictator Saddam Hussein (2000); during the U.S. invasion as a roving “un-embedded” reporter (March-April 2003); then attached to combat units south of Baghdad and on Iraq’s northwestern steppe (2005) and at Diwaniyah (2008).

After the 9/11 attacks, Finley worked around the Arab world from Yemen to Syria, in the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands and in Africa building an understanding of challenges Americans are likely to face.
He lives with his wife, Claire, and children in Colorado where he grew up. He graduated from Stanford University and earned master’s degrees in international relations as a Fulbright scholar in Britain and in journalism at Northwestern University.

Among many awards, he was part of the Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting in 2000 for coverage of the Columbine High School massacre. He began with the Associated Press and has contributed to The Economist, CNN and other media. He moved to Africa in 1991 where, from a base in Zimbabwe, he traveled around the continent as a correspondent supplying several U.S. newspapers.

Beyond journalism, Finley has designed and guest-taught block courses at The Colorado College. He is a board member of the Denver Council on Foreign Relations. He explored corporate strategy and economics on a nine-month fellowship at the University of Michigan business school, and served as a Next Generation Fellow on the New York-based American Assembly’s 2008 project to rethink U.S. relations with the rest of the world.

A Spanish-speaker, longtime soccer player and mountaineer, he enjoys skiing, traveling and camping with his family.

CONTACT: 303.954.1700 or bfinley@denverpost.com.