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I\u2019m still trying to figure out exactly how to use this space, and I could use some help from readers. So, contrary to the more positioned portions of my nature, I\u2019m going to do the thing: Ask for help.\u00a0

Before I came to work as executive producer for news and public affairs at NMPBS last spring, the top section of the New Mexico in Focus newsletter was often just a paragraph-long description of the main segment of that week\u2019s show. Other times, the space went to the editorial musings of former host Gene Grant.\u00a0

During the past year, we\u2019ve used it for some original reporting<\/a> and analysis<\/a>, to co-publish journalism with partner news organizations<\/a> and, sometimes, for me to stretch out a bit<\/a> as a writer. Many weeks, I\u2019ve taken the lead on writing. NMiF Senior Producer Lou DiVizio, Our Land Senior Producer Laura Paskus and others have contributed as well.\u00a0

I know we\u2019ve published some good writing here, and I\u2019m grateful for the opportunity to experiment. But I don\u2019t know if any of this is resonating with our audience. We are a PBS station, after all, and we produce a weekly, hourlong news and public affairs program as our primary offering. What do folks think of coming to us for the written word?\u00a0

I don\u2019t know.\u00a0

Before I get to the asking for help part, I want to briefly draw your attention to a few elements from this week\u2019s show, which you can watch and read a bit more about below. The first is a two-part conversation between Paskus and New Mexico legend and Earth Day cofounder Arturo Sandoval that had me cheering from the production booth. The other was a conversation I had with New Mexico Foundation for Open Government Executive Director Melanie Majors about the state Open Meetings Act and government transparency more broadly \u2014 a long-held passion of mine.\u00a0

Going forward, though, I want to know what y\u2019all think of how I could best use this opening space in the NMiF newsletter. Do you want hard news? Analysis? Extras\/behind-the-scenes stuff from a given week\u2019s show? Poetry? Nothing at all \u2014 just links to the NMiF segments? Something else?\u00a0

Please let me know at JProctor@nmpbs.org<\/a>. I welcome your feedback!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Jeff Proctor, Executive Producer<\/p>\n\n\n\n