Our team includes some of New Mexico’s most-awarded and respected journalists and rising stars in local news reporting. Meet the team working to tell New Mexico’s local stories you can’t find anywhere else.
We are committed to growing opportunities for journalists, especially those lucky enough to call New Mexico home, to develop local news reporting skills.
We are committed to paying journalists a living wage, providing benefits to help them support their well-being and grow their professional skills, and to providing pathways for student and early-career journalists to develop a love for local news.
Interested in joining our team? Reach out to our publisher or an editor listed below.
nm.news
Including the Corrales Comment, Sandoval Signpost, and Route 66 Independent News.
Kevin Hendricks
Editor
Kevin Hendricks joined the nm.news team in 2024 as an editor. He previously served as asst. editor at the Rio Rancho Observer and on the sports desk at the Albuquerque Journal. He is a proud native of Albuquerque and Highland High Hornet.
Rodd Cayton
Rodd Cayton has spent almost two decades covering local news across the West and Midwest, most recently at the Gallup Independent and City Desk ABQ before joining the nm.news local news desk.
Jesse Jones
Jesse Jones is a local news and city hall reporter with nm.news whose work most often appears at City Desk ABQ. A native of Pecos, he is a graduate of UNM’s School of Journalism.
Lauren Lifke
Laurent Lifke is a local news and data reporter with nm.news. She served as an intern and student reporter with our SF Reporter and City Desk teams before graduating from UNM in 2024.
Roberto Rosales
Roberto Rosales is a senior photojournalist with nm.news. He is an award-winning photographer and also serves as an instructor with UNM’s School of Journalism. He previously worked for the Albuquerque Journal before joining nm.news in 2024.
Alex Ross
Alex Ross is a senior politics reporter with nm.news whose work most often appears in the NM Political Report. He previously worked in local news in Montana and as the KOB-TV bureau chief in Roswell and as a local reporter for the Roswell Daily Record.
More of our full directory coming soon!
The Paper.
Devin O’Leary
Editor
Devin O’Leary is a 30-year veteran of Albuquerque arts, culture and film reporting. He previously served as a film critic, arts editor and managing editor with the Weekly Alibi (RIP) before joining The Paper. in 2020 when the Alibi ceased publishing.
Sara Atencio Gonzales
Sara Atencio Gonzales is a local features reporter for The Paper. An Albuquerque native, she is a graduate of UNM and the Goldring Arts journalism program at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School. She returned to The Paper. in 2025 where she had previously been a student reporter and intern.
Michael Hodock
Michael Hodock covers music and local news for The Paper. A native of Albuquerque, Mike also plays in several metal bands.
The Santa Fe Reporter.
Dave Cathey
Editor
Dave Cathey has been a journalist for more than 30 years. His longest stint in news was as a state news and food editor for The Oklahoman and as a widely-respected food blogger. He joined the Santa Fe Reporter in 2024.
Alex DeVore
Alex DeVore is the long-time arts and culture editor for the Santa Fe Reporter.
Adam Ferguson
Adam Ferguson is the calendar and events manager and photographer for the Santa Fe Reporter.
Publishing
Pat Davis
Founder & Publisher
Pat Davis is a recovering politician and community organizer on a mission to rescue and rebuild local news across New Mexico. Read more.
Tierna Unruh-Enos
Senior Sales & Partnerships Executive
Tierna Unruh-Enos is a lifelong and award-winning journalist. A graduate of NMSU’s journalism program, she has served as a daily news assignment editor at KOAT TV and associate publisher at the Weekly Alibi and became a co-founder of The Paper. in 2021 after the Alibi’s demise. She served as the editor for several publications with nm.news before becoming the lead for revenue programs.
Rachel Mills
Design Manager
Rachel Mills is an award-winning graphic designer who manages our print publishing program.
Student Journalists.
We believe that building the next generation of journalists is critical to sustaining local news.
Each semester, we pair a journalism student from a New Mexico college or university journalism program with a mentor journalists in our newsroom to cover a beat together.
Our annual student journalism program is supported by a generous grant from Singleton Schreiber and other donors through the Citizen Media Group, a local nonprofit working to expand opportunities for journalism in New Mexico.
Our summer student internship program is supported by the New Mexico Local News Fund.
Previous student journalists
Connor Currier
(UNM) 2024
Connor served as a student journalist with City Desk ABQ in 2024 covering city news and politics.
Sara Atencio-Gonzales
(UNM) 2022-2024
Sara served as a student journalist with The Paper. for three semesters before graduating from UNM in 2024. She was accepted to SUNY’s Master’s of Journalism program.
Lauren Lifke (UNM 2024 – 2025) She was previously an intern at the Santa Fe Reporter. While working as a student journalist with Ctrl+P, she also serves as the managing editor at the Daily Lobo, UNM’s student newspaper.
Elizabeth McCall, (NMSU) 2024
Elizabeth served as a student journalist with The Independent before graduating from NMSU’s journalism and communications program in 2024.