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KUNM news staff took home dozens of awards this year for radio coverage ranging from podcasts to breaking news. The awards are especially notable after a year of immense challenges where reporters struggled to keep communities informed on COVID-19 and...

Like a lighthouse reaching across a dark night, radio broadcasts have brought joy and hope to people around the world for centuries. Here at The University of New Mexico, NPR affiliate KUNM is carrying on that mission by ensuring every member of the...

In celebration of KUNM's 50th anniversary in 2016, station volunteers resolved to honor many of their fellow programmers who freely contributed their time and talent over the years but have sadly passed on from this life. For decades, listeners to the...

The idea of “out of the classroom and into the community” is the focus of the re-launching of KUNM's University Showcase—with a major segment produced by KUNM Reporter Megan Kamerick. This Friday, Sept. 16 at 8 a.m. on University Showcase, Kamerick...

KUNM 89.9 FM, a service of The University of New Mexico, received funding recently to continue its award winning coverage of public health and poverty. The Public Health New Mexico project, which kicked off in 2012, was awarded a $380,000 grant from the...

KUNM swept all of the awards given in the radio category at a recent regional competition sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). The SPJ announced the awards at the chapter’s annual...

Distinguished Professor and Regents' Professor Theodore "Ted" Jojola, UNM School of Architecture and Planning; and Raices Collective, a KUNM volunteer group, were honored at the 29th Creative Bravos Awards, recently at the Albuquerque Museum of Art & H

Peace Talks Radio premiered as a monthly program on KUNM, 89.9 FM, in January 2003. To mark the 10th anniversary, they recently presented a program of engaging and inspiring clips from episodes featured on Peace Talks Radio in the last ten years. Among ...

Ken Lucero, director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Native American Health Policy, is the guest speaker on Native America Calling on Friday, Nov. 2 at 11 a.m.Lucero will discuss access to healthcare and insurance as well as talking ...

KUNM is adding two more full-time reporters in the next few months to focus on poverty and public health in New Mexico. KUNM General Manager Richard Towne said, "In keeping with our goal to inform and engage citizens with the very best public radio ...