Credit Where It's Due

ABQ Journal Admits It Used SFR Reporting in Front-Page Story

By Julie Ann Grimm

While New Mexico continues waiting to learn who will get permission for new medical cannabis licenses, the state's largest newspaper is fessing up that it used SFR's reporting in a front-page story without giving us credit.

Investigative reporter Peter St. Cyr tracked down applicants for the licenses through a database at the secretary of state's office when the state Department of Health refused to be transparent about their evaluations. His story, Green Rush, revealed the names of some famous New Mexicans and out-of-state pot prospectors who want in on the industry.

But when the Albuquerque Journal ran its own version of the story the two days later, it didn't acknowledge the real source.

An item that ran in in its "For the Record" section on Saturday, Sept. 19, says the attribution to SFR's "earlier findings" was "inadvertently edited out."

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