See You in 2025

It’s been a long year for New Mexico in Focus, full of staffing challenges, toxic politics during a wild election season, a news cycle that never ends and more. We’re proud of what we’ve produced in 2024, and we look forward to improving and evolving how we serve our audience in the new year. 

Watch this space, as the kids say. 

But before we go barreling headlong into 2025, it’s time for a little break. Our folks have put in some serious hours, especially these past several months, and a fresh NMiF crew is a more productive, engaged NMiF crew. Besides, we are (partially) licensed through the University of New Mexico and, mercifully, the powers that be on campus grant a pretty generous winter break. So, this place is a ghost town the last couple weeks of the year. 

A little note about what you’ll see on Friday nights at 7 until the Jan. 10 show: a mix of newly recorded segments and reprised pieces, chosen by the staff, that we particularly enjoyed making and showing to you during the past 12 months. We picked some lighthearted conversations, a poet, some deep policy discussions and even a piece or two in which we broke some news. We hope you’ll enjoy them. 

This week, we’re rebroadcasting an Our Land special, “Loving Our Changing Homelands,” from Senior Producer Laura Paskus, photojournalist extraordinaire Antony Lostetter and others on our crew. You can read about why this piece was so special to Laura in the Our Land Weekly newsletter. For me, it’s special in the way nearly everything Laura has ever made is special: a deeply truthful story well told, born from a love of place that still has me thinking months after we first aired it. 

I’m also glad to show this piece again because Antony left NMPBS last month, and Laura’s last day will be Jan. 31.  

We’ll see you back here in 2025. 

-Jeff Proctor, Executive Producer