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Barely 20 percent of adults can name their state legislators, according to a semi-recent survey. Half couldn't say if their state had a one- or two-house legislature. Over 60 percent didn’t know if being a state legislator was a full-time job. UNM’s...

Local journalism in New Mexico is pressing forward, thanks to Press Forward.  A coalition of some of the nation’s largest nonprofit foundations has just announced that New Mexico is joining 10 other new Press Forward Chapters, as part of a $500...

The New Mexico Local News Fellowship and Internship Program has just launched its fifth cycle with a record seven fellows and eight interns who will work in newsrooms around the state. That is double the normal number of young journalists. The growth...

UNM’s Communication & Journalism (C&J) Local News Fellowships and Internships Program is gaining steam for its next generation of journalists.   After four years, the career training program is being expanded thanks to a state appropriation of an...

It’s the latest, breaking news for some that the UNM Communication and Journalism (C&J) Department is setting the stage properly for future journalists. Yet for the minds behind the UNM-based Local News Fellowship, it’s a story they’ve been following...

Makayla Grijalva is probably best known at The University of New Mexico for her work at Advance and the Daily Lobo. She’s skilled at multimedia story-telling through writing, shooting and editing video, photography, live video production, and web and...