I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Once again, New Mexicans across the state were deprived of seeing a House committee debate an issue that is vitally important even in these days of budget problems, our governor in the middle of a federal corruption investigation and other…
In some cases (not all) crowd-sourcing and citizen journalism clearly has an advantage over the traditional media. While an AP or Reuters photographer will probably not be around the site of a plane crash, there are always people around. People with cell phones that have increasingly clear cameras attached.
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Twitter. So are a few other New Mexico reporters. But at least one reporter for the Albuquerque Journal doesn’t really see the point in the microblogging service.
Leslie Linthicum, in the…
The microblogging service Twitter has been growing in stature as a journalism tool around New Mexico, as broadcast reporters, print journalists and of course bloggers have begun covering the state tweet by tweet.
Bill Richardson was nominated to be the country’s next commerce secretary yesterday by President-elect Barack Obama. And it was not only noticed here on the pages of the New Mexico Independent or in the New Mexico media in general. It was news all across the nation. And that includes Twitter.
