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It’s Sunshine Week!
It’s Sunshine Week, and time to remind ourselves – and those we report on – just what that means. It is particularly important as we face one of the biggest stories of recent decades.
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Statement on efforts to restrict journalists’ access to a public meeting
Efforts to restrict public access to the workings of government by hindering journalists are unacceptable.
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Interstate Stream Commission Receives “Black Hole” Distinction From SPJ
The Society of Professional Journalists chose the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission for the 2016 Black Hole Award. The award draws attention to “government institutions or agencies for outright contempt of the public’s right to know.” SPJ Rio Grande board president Laura Paskus nominated the ISC this year: I’ve been a Read more…
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Interview With A Records Custodian
The city of Santa Fe’s Public Records Custodian Bernadette Romero does a couple of things that make her stand out to SPJ Rio Grande. One, she’ll reach out to someone requesting a public record to help refine their request so they get what they’re looking for—and it’s not buried in Read more…
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Gray Skies: When Efforts to Engage with State Agencies Fail
No one would respond, however. It wasn’t even a controversial story — the village ended up receiving the money they’d been counting on. I just wanted to know why the state had sent that letter and what might be going on with the budget or the grant funding.
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City On The Edge & SPJ Cover YOUR Right To Know
The SPJ Rio Grande chapter and City on the Edge podcast recently teamed up for on a live taping to kick off Sunshine Week. Journalists Julie Ann Grimm (Santa Fe Reporter), Laura Paskus (NM Political Report), Joey Peters (NM Political Report), and Jeff Proctor (New Mexico In Depth) joined the City Read more…