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The Journalism of Fire

A large plume of smoke rises from a wildfire in a forested mountainous area, partially obscuring the sky. The foreground features a metal guardrail along a road.

Here we are again, the time of year in which nmfireinfo.com becomes a regular part of our daily reading diet. As I write this, the Salt and South Fork fires stand at 0% containment, already having claimed at least two lives, chewed up more than 24,000 acres combined and damaged or destroyed over 1,400 structures — including…

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Close Your Laptop — Now

Three people stand on a rocky ledge overlooking a vast, arid landscape with sparse vegetation and distant mesas under a partly cloudy sky.

Greetings and salutations, New Mexico in Focus people. I’ve promised to be brief in this space before, then subjected you to 500 or 600 words of context about a particular week’s show. But this ain’t before…  This week, Senior Producer Laura Paskus takes over NMiF with a special episode of Our Land — and with…

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