Death (or Life?) of American Journalism Lecture

NMPW member Tom Johnson discusses “Death (or Life?) of American Journalism” on Thursday, Nov. 19, from 1-3 PM in a Zoom meeting in cooperation with the Santa Fe-based RENESAN Institute for Lifelong Learning. There were 71,000 journalists in America in 2008. By 2018 that number had dropped to 38,000. There were 50 major media corporations […]

An LCPW Conversation with J. C. ‘Jen’ Cervantes

Dear LCPW members and friends, please join us on Tuesday, November 10 at 6 p.m. for “An LCPW Conversation with J. C. ‘Jen’ Cervantes.” Jen is a New York Times best-selling children’s author of the Storm Runner series, a Mayan mythology trilogy for middle-grade readers. Cervantes’s career has exploded since publishing her first children’s book, […]

Sign up for “Journalism under Fire: Covering Crisis” Conference

The Santa Fe Council on International Relations (CIR) will host its third Journalism under Fire conference this fall from November 10 – December 3. All digital for the first time, this year’s theme is Covering Crisis and will feature leading journalists, photojournalists, political cartoonists, and academics. Together, they’ll address, dissect, and illustrate how journalism is […]

NFPW & NMPW Communications Contest Opens Oct. 1

The 2021 National Federation of Press Women and New Mexico Press Women Communications Contest is open on October 1. Click here for more information and to enter or log on to the NFPW website. The communications contest is a two-tiered contest open to anyone over the age of 18 regardless of age, gender, professional status […]

2021 Zia Book Award

The Zia Book Awards and Scholarships will be presented at noon on Saturday, March 13. The event is free and open to the public. The link for the Zoom awards session is given below: Zia Book Awards and Scholarship Presentation Event: Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86903374596?pwd=dzNBb3dTWVVySS91andoREpBRlQ4dz09 If you need them: Meeting ID: 869 0337 4596, Passcode: […]

Zoom Conversation: Journalists Covering Criminal & Social Justice Issues

NMPW members are invited to participate in an off-the-record Zoom Conversation on Friday, 25 Sep, from 4:00- 4:45 p.m. NMPW will host two journalists covering criminal and social justice issues surrounding police reform and accountability. Joining us are Ryan Lowery from the Las Vegas Optic and Elise Kaplan, criminal justice reporter for the Albuquerque Journal. […]

Zoom Conversation with NM Congresswoman Torres Small Discusses COVID-19 Legislation

NMPW will host a Zoom Conversation with New Mexico Congresswoman Xochitl Torres Small on Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 5:00 – 5:30 p.m. She will spend the first 15 minutes discussing the COVID-19 legislation that has passed the House of Representatives to mitigate the economic crisis. She will then take questions from our members for 15 […]

Las Cruces Press Women Sponsors COVID-19 and the Media Response II

Las Cruces Press Women is sponsoring a continuing Zoom conversation on how did governmental communications professionals provide critical public health information during the COVID-19 crisis? The event, COVID-19 and the Media Response II, takes place Monday, Aug 31, from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. The discussion will be moderated by Damien Willis, lead reporter for the […]