Our Team

Authors

Gwyneth Doland | Co-Director

UNM Communication & Journalism

Gwyneth Doland has been a journalist since 1999, working in alternative weekly papers, magazines, radio, television and online news. She is Senior Political Correspondent at New Mexico PBS, where leads coverage of the state legislature. She is also a contributor to New Mexico in Depth, KUNM News and New Mexico Magazine. In 2012 and 2015 she authored reports on government accountability for the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C.; The 2012 State Integrity Report was a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Her work covering state government been honored with a First Amendment Award from the ACLU of New Mexico, and top honors from the New Mexico Broadcasters Association. Gwyneth was previously the executive director of the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government and was a founding director of the renewed Society of Professional Journalists Rio Grande Chapter. She is an officer of the Journalism and Women Symposium and the Elections Chair for NAHJ New Mexico. She serves on the advisory board of Press Forward New Mexico.

Michael V. Marcotte | Co-Director

MVM Consulting

Mike began his media career at WUOG-FM at the University of Georgia, moving from DJ to radio dramatist to reporter before earning two journalism degrees and joining public broadcasting as NPR was on the rise. He reported for WOSU in Columbus, then became News Director at KPLU in Tacoma-Seattle and later News Manager at KPBS in San Diego, serving 25 years in those roles before launching his consulting firm, MVM Consulting. A Stanford Knight Fellowship in 2010 led him into teaching, including serving as the Donald W. Reynolds Chair for Ethics of Entrepreneurial and Innovative Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno. Now the first Professor of Practice in Journalism at the University of New Mexico, Mike continues to consult for Democracy Fund and other public media organizations nationwide, while publishing widely on NPR newsroom issues and maintaining leadership roles, including as past president of Public Radio News Directors, Inc.

Key Contributors

  • Denise Zubizarreta, MALCM

    Design

    NMLNF

  • Stephen Jefferson

    Consultant

    BLOOM LABS

  • Ben Yazza

    Community Outreach

    NMPBS

  • Sharon Berman

    Community Outreach

    NMPBS

Contributing Researchers

  • Florian Knowles

    UNM

  • Mia Casas

    UNM

  • Elizabeth Secor

    UNM

  • Darrian Smith

    UNM

  • Gillian Barkhurst

    UNM

  • Pao Garcia

    NMSU

  • Christopher Keller

    UNM

  • Desirée Basail-Nicolaisen

    UNM