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Organ Mountains, just north of Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Organ Mountains, just north of Las Cruces, New Mexico.

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April 17, 2020

Algernon D’Ammassa is a reporter who has been covering the COVID-19 public health crisis in Las Cruces as well as some of Southern New Mexico’s smaller towns for Las Cruces Sun-News. This week, he talks with correspondent Laura Paskus as part of her series of interviews with journalists around New Mexico as they cover the coronavirus pandemic in their communities.

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This story is part of a collaboration with New Mexico PBS, through FRONTLINE’s Local Journalism Initiative, which is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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