Searchlight New Mexico | Independent Investigative Journalism
WEBSep 13, 2024 · We’re dedicated to investigative reporting and innovative data journalism. Your donations help make a difference. Help Support Investigative Journalism. Searchlight New Mexico is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization dedicated to investigative and public service journalism in the interest of the people of New Mexico.
A nuclear legacy in Los Alamos - Searchlight New Mexico
WEBAug 15, 2024 · Decades-old nuclear waste persists in a popular recreation area near the Los Alamos National Laboratory, study finds
Archive | Searchlight New Mexico
WEB6 days ago · Inside the shoplifting bust of Albuquerque Journal editor Patrick Ethridge. by Joshua Bowling October 4, 2024. The editor of New Mexico’s largest newspaper has lost his job for stealing groceries at a Walmart. Public and private records obtained by Searchlight New Mexico paint a clear picture of what happened. What …
Sara Solovitch, Author at Searchlight New Mexico
WEBJul 13, 2021 · Sara Solovitch is the editor of Searchlight New Mexico. She supervised its launch in January 2018 with the Child Well-Being Project, an investigation into the plight of children and families in New Mexico. Before coming to Searchlight, she published investigative and long-form stories in Esquire, Wired, Politico, and the Washington Post.
J. Weston Phippen - Searchlight New Mexico
WEBJun 17, 2020 · J. Weston Phippen has reported on the Southwest, primarily focused on the border and the U.S.-Mexico relationship, for 10 years. He was a former staff writer and editor at Outside magazine and The Atlantic, and his writing has also appeared in publications like Mother Jones and Rolling Stone. In …
New map shows plutonium contamination miles away from Los …
WEBApr 25, 2024 · The Buckman Direct Diversion Project at a bend in the Rio Grande River, viewed from White Rock Overlook. Nadav Soroker/Searchlight New Mexico Posted in Nuclear The long path of plutonium: A new map charts contamination at thousands of sites, miles from Los Alamos National Laboratory
An Apache ceremony for the ages | Searchlight New Mexico
WEBby Michael Benanav September 6, 2023. At the end of July, in a forest clearing in the heart of the Mescalero Apache Reservation, a 13-year-old girl braved a coming-of-age ceremony marking her initiation into womanhood. Teepees and oak-branch arbors had been erected for the occasion, which would last four full days and into the morning of a fifth.
Meet our team - Searchlight New Mexico
WEBMeet the Searchlight team. Executive Editor | Alex Heard is the former editor in chief of Outside magazine, where he specialized in investigative reporting, ambitious longform narratives, and essays written by some of the most prominent voices in outdoor literature. He has also worked as an editor at Wired and The New York Times Magazine.
ABOUT - Searchlight New Mexico
WEBEmpowering the Public. Searchlight New Mexico is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization dedicated to investigative reporting. In a landscape of shrinking media resources, our mission is to focus high-impact journalism on topics of local, regional and national interest in order to allow the public to see into the remote recesses of government and to expose abuses of power.
Toxic timeline: A brief history of PFAS - Searchlight New Mexico
WEBFeb 19, 2019 · 1947: 3M starts mass-manufacturing PFOA, one of the best-known members in a family of thousands of fluorochemicals called PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances). 1951: DuPont starts using PFOA to make Teflon. 1953: A close relative of PFOA – a chemical called PFOS – is accidentally spilled on a 3M chemist’s tennis shoe.