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The President’s Message: NMPW Board Meeting and Setting a Direction By Regina M Griego Hello, members of the New Mexico

The Broadsheet – November 2022

What’s in a Name? 60 Years of History
One could conclude that I’m in favor of keeping the name New Mexico Press Women, based on that headline.

But as a member of this organization for half its existence – 30 years, nearly 20 of those as NMPW’s historian – I submit this article rather as an as-close-as-I-can-get-to-factual observation about previous attempts to take the “women” and the “press” out of our organization’s name, so that when it comes to a vote at our 60th anniversary conference in April, members will have the benefit of a bit of institutional memory.

At the latest NMPW Board meeting there was a good deal of discussion not only of the past (thanks to our able historians), but of the future. How do we best find our organization’s way forward? In what ways have we responded to the changing nature of journalism and communication in the new century, and what might be next for us? Is our new reality reflected fully in our organization’s name? Do we hold on to that name in order to reflect and honor our origins? Or do we change it to facilitate our future? Is it exclusionary? Is it justified? Do we really mean it?

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