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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: Turmoil at The Albuquerque Journal
Description: Lou DiVizio starts the show with some headlines from around the state including a federal judge's ruling that the federal government violated environmental regulations by approving nuclear pit production at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Then, Executive Producer Jeff Proctor sits down with a journalism professor and a criminal defense lawyer to consider what's next for the Albuquerque Journal, following the arrest and jailing of its executive editor after a misdemeanor shoplifting charge. First, Jeff asks UNM journalism professor and reporter Gwyneth Doland what sort of ethical conundrum has been created for the Journal's publisher...