Politics isn’t a sport
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We at NMPolitics.net believe in treating politics as more important than a professional sporting event. We need your help to keep doing it. Continue Reading
NMPolitics.net, Sun-News win national feature writing award
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The news organizations won second place in a national feature writing competition for a story about how a multi-ethnic family is working to make ends meet and get along in a complicated world. Continue Reading
With visa renewal denied, border journalist says farewell to Las Cruces
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I recently disappeared from Las Cruces and the airwaves. Here’s why. Continue Reading
Farewell to an extraordinary border journalist
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Marisela Ortega Lozano, who died earlier this month, is one of the unsung heroines of border journalism. Continue Reading
Worse than Russiagate? Spying scandal rattles Mexico
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The New York Times recently reported on the illegal use of a spyware program to target journalists and family members, lawyers, consumer advocates and human rights defenders in Mexico. Continue Reading
Haussamen discusses investigation of behavioral health system
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NMPolitics.net’s editor and publisher appeared on KRWG this week to discuss an ongoing journalistic collaboration to investigate southern New Mexico’s struggling behavioral health system. Continue Reading
Another Mexican journalist is gunned down
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Javier Valdez Cardenas is the sixth journalist murdered in Mexico since the beginning of the year. Continue Reading
Corporatized newspapers have become less relevant to readers
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After spending more than 50 years in the business of newspapers/journalism, here are my views on why the industry has been in decline. Continue Reading
Layoffs hit Las Cruces Sun-News again; top editor resigns
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The Las Cruces Sun-News laid off three journalists and eliminated their positions on Wednesday, and the newspaper’s top editor voluntarily resigned. Continue Reading
NMPolitics.net wins five awards in state journalism competition
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They include a first-place award for a feature story about a multi-ethnic family that’s working to make ends meet and get along in a complicated world. Continue Reading
Haussamen wins first-place award for commentary writing
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The award came in the annual multi-state Top of the Rockies contest. NMPolitics.net was also recognized for the strength of its website. Continue Reading
Haussamen’s Border Patrol encounter featured in article about journalism in the borderlands
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An article published by Columbia Journalism Review details how an experience Haussamen and his girlfriend had at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint served as “a professional wake-up call for Haussamen.” Continue Reading
Citing risks to journalists, Juárez news daily shuts down
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The chief reason, Norte’s founder and president Oscar Cantu Murguia said, was the lack of security faced by Mexican journalists. Continue Reading
A voice of the voiceless is gunned down in Mexico
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Miroslava Breach Velducea became last week the third journalist murdered in Mexico in March. Continue Reading
Journalists will continue to shine a light in dark corners
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Outside the press gaggle and beyond the official propaganda released by state officials, journalists keep telling the real stories of what is happening across New Mexico. Continue Reading