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Source New Mexico is an independent, nonprofit news organization that shines a light on governments, policies and public officials so you get the information you need to make choices — about yourself, your family, your neighborhoods and communities. Through a lens of public health and equity, we’ll bring you original news reporting along with analysis and opinion. We’re your source for unflinching coverage of COVID response and health care, access to education, tribal affairs, climate change and industrial regulation, police accountability, criminal legal reform, the impacts of immigration policies and more from across the region.
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Shaun Griswold
Editor
Shaun Griswold is a journalist in Albuquerque. He is a citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna, and his ancestry also includes Jemez and Zuni on the maternal side of his family. He grew up in Albuquerque and Gallup. He brings a decade of print and broadcast news experience. Shaun reports on issues important to Native Americans in urban and tribal communities throughout the state, including education and child welfare.
Austin Fisher
Senior Reporter
Austin Fisher is a journalist based in Santa Fe. He has worked for newspapers in New Mexico and his home state of Kansas, including the Topeka Capital-Journal, the Garden City Telegram, the Rio Grande SUN and the Santa Fe Reporter. Since starting a full-time career in reporting in 2015, he’s aimed to use journalism to lift up voices that typically go unheard in public debates around economic inequality, policing and environmental racism.
Patrick Lohmann
Reporter
Patrick Lohmann has been a reporter since 2007, when he wrote stories for $15 apiece at a now-defunct tabloid in Gallup, his hometown. Since then, he's worked at UNM's Daily Lobo, the Albuquerque Journal and the Syracuse Post-Standard. Along the way, he's won several state and national awards for his reporting, including for an exposé on a cult-like Alcoholics Anonymous group and a feature on an Upstate New York militia member who died of COVID-19. He's thrilled to be back home in New Mexico, where he works to tell stories that resonate and make an impact.
Danielle Prokop
Reporter
Danielle Prokop is a reporter based in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and cut her teeth in journalism at UNM’s Daily Lobo. She started reporting full-time in 2019 at the Santa Fe New Mexican and later watchdogged cities and counties for the Scottsbluff Star-Herald in Nebraska. She returned to the Rio Grande river basin and covered the environment in far West Texas and Southern New Mexico for El Paso Matters. Her work includes a 14-story series chronicling climate change on the Rio Grande with independent photojournalist Diana Cervantes for Source NM. Danielle is eager to explore more stories in southern New Mexico building on prior reporting on environment, access to healthcare and local government issues.
Megan Gleason
Reporting Fellow
Megan Gleason is a journalist based in Albuquerque. After recently graduating from the University of New Mexico where she served as the editor-in-chief of the Daily Lobo, she joined Source New Mexico as a fellow with the New Mexico Local News Fund. She's continued as a Source NM reporting fellow beyond that, discovering a passion for environmental reporting. Megan's also interested in highlighting often unheard issues in rural areas and connecting government-based reporting to the communities that policies actually affect.