The ''Santa Fe Reporter'' (''SFR'') is an

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newspaper published in

Santa Fe, New Mexico Santa Fe ( ; , literal translation, lit. "Holy Faith") is the capital city, capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico, and the county seat of Santa Fe County. With over 89,000 residents, Santa Fe is the List of municipalities in New Mexico, fourt ...

, United States. First published in 1974, it features reports on local

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and

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, and is published once a week on Wednesdays.

Features

The ''Santa Fe Reporter'' publishes three glossy seasonal guides, including its magazine-style supplement, the ''Restaurant Guide''. The paper also hosts several events in Santa Fe each year, such as expos and parties.

Ownership

The newspaper was first owned by Richard McCord and Laurel Knowles. The two sold it in 1988 to Hope Aldrich Rockefeller. It was sold again in 1997 to Richard Meeker and Mark Zusman, owners of the

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-based City of Roses Newspaper Company which also publishes ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 2024, the newspaper was sold to Pat Davis.

Staff

Since September 2016, the paper's publisher & editor has been Julie Ann Grimm, with Anna Maggiore serving as associate publisher and advertising director. Grimm had previously been editor of the paper since August 2013. Alex De Vore has been covering music, arts and culture for the ''Reporter'' since 2008, and became culture editor in 2016.

Notable stories

In 2007, Dan Frosch, now with ''

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'', won the

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' first-place prize (for under 60,000 circulation) for Investigative Reporting for his 15-part series, "The Wexford Files". The story, which investigated health care in

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prisons, was instrumental in governor

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's decision to end New Mexico's contract with Wexford. In 2010, Corey Pein wrote the story "Khalsa vs Khalsa", the first article to examine the disputes within the 3HO community. In 2013, the ''Santa Fe Reporter'' filed a lawsuit against New Mexico Governor

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, alleging violations of the state's Inspection of Public Records Act as well as a violation of the Free Press clause of the New Mexico Constitution. Attorneys for the newspaper and the government argued in court in March 2017, and Judge Sara Singleton ruled in the case from her retirement in December of that year that the governor had broken the records law, but her actions did not violate the Constitution. The ''Reporter'' works with a sister nonprofit, the New Mexico Fund for Public Interest Journalism, to provide journalism training for students. Its 2019 cohort was honored in 2020 by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for the collaboration that covered sustainability programs at the Santa Fe Community College: “Roadmap to Resilience” by Olivia Abeyta, Max Looft, Anna Girdner, and James Taylor under the direction of mentor and educator Julia Goldberg.

Awards

The

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Colorado chapter's "Top of the Rocky's" contest listed nine ''Santa Fe Reporter'' stories among its best in the region in 2017. In 2008, at the

(AAN) awards ceremony the ''Santa Fe Reporter'' received seven awards for editorial layout, illustration, arts criticism, columns and blogs. In 2009, the ''Reporter'' won five AAN awards, for its politics blog, for illustrations, for food writing, for "Innovation" and for the 2008 election blog, "Swing State of Mind".

References

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