Thank you bee guy

🐝 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡: We’ve signed a deal with Matt Hilton (the Bee Specialist from last night’s game) and we’re making autograph cards from his all-time great performance.

If only we knew who was responsible for big media outlets changing their voices and throwing themselves repeatedly at fickle algorithms all in the name of page views

Congratulations to Searchlight staff writer joshua bowling🌵 and Searchlight alum Vanessa G. Sánchez on taking Second Place in the prestigious Best of the West journalism contest with their series, 'Calling in Crisis,' examining mental health and policing

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Student journalists at WKCR-FM NY reporting that NYPD threatened arrest of student journalists and Columbia Journalism School Dean jelani cobb for leaving the Pulitzer Hall journalism department building for a better view of activity on the campus lawn

The Columbia Spectator, New York, Tuesday, April 30, 1968:

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Searchlight NM seeks an executive editor to lead one of the best nonprofits in investigative journalism. Since 2018, we have triggered nearly a dozen federal/state investigations, forced five cabinet secretaries out, & won numerous awards
searchlightnm.org/about/jobs/

Come be my boss! DMs open if I can help answer any questions about the news org, NM, etc.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity!

So, LILY, incoming editor in chief of the Daily Lobo, is suing the University of New Mexico after its police department outrageously refused to provide a weapons inventory following a public records request. Insert popcorn-eating gif; read: dailylobo.com/article/2024/0…

Congratulations to Searchlight contributing writer Michael Benanav for winning First Place in the prestigious Best of the West journalism contest with his photo essay, 'An Apache ceremony for the ages'

See what the judges had to say here: bestofthewestcontest.org/2024-contest-r…

For years, the public had no clear picture of the plutonium footprint around Los Alamos National Laboratory.

This is what one watchdog group found:
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This small New Mexico town has water. Water everywhere, in fact. But not a drop to drink (or flush). Blame the pipes.
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In a time when kids can buy semi-automatics on Snapchat, two beloved sons start shooting. And two families are torn apart.
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In light of the Arizona indictments of fake electors, this is one of the best interviews I've ever seen from the great ruelaswritings:

'Do you not know how you arrived at a place?' lol x.com/brahmresnik/st…

Arizona lawmakers try to squelch regulatory investigation into Wendy Rogers’s husband. Pressure campaign included emails, calls, appearances at hearings and proposed legislation. Nice slice of accountability by Jakob Thorington AZ Capitol Times

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A Rio Grande photo expedition shows the beauty and perils along 470 miles of New Mexico’s prize waterway.
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For years, the public had no clear picture of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium footprint

A watchdog group has now found plutonium hotspots along:

⛰️Tribal lands
👟Hiking trails
🚦City streets
🌊The Rio Grande River
searchlightnm.org/the-long-path-…

Great news! 🥳

BREAKING: ⁦AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes⁩ announced a grand jury has indicted Arizona's 11 so-called fake electors - including two sitting state senators - on criminal felony charges as part of an ongoing investigation.

Gilbert mayoral candidate Shane Krauser out in wake of scandals:
— Admission he backed plan to use legal threat to oust candidates
— Revelation his son was in Gilbert Goon video
— involvement in a 2007 fraud scheme
Story by Maritza Dominguez via azcentral

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