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Kevin Hendricks, a seasoned veteran of Albuquerque metro area newsrooms, has been appointed as the editor of The Sandoval Signpost, Corrales Comment and The Independent News.
Hendricks has spent the past 17+ years working in newsrooms with the Albuquerque Journal and Rio Rancho Observer. Hendricks was born and raised in Albuquerque and has lived in Rio Rancho since 2019. Heรขโฌโขll be leading a newsroom team covering Sandoval County, Corrales and the East Mountains as a part of the Ctrl+P Publishing.
รขโฌลIรขโฌโขm so excited to work with this great team and to help continue the excellent coverage and journalism at all three papers,รขโฌย Hendricks said. รขโฌลIรขโฌโขm very happy for this opportunity and I canรขโฌโขt wait to get to work.รขโฌย
Hendricks has spent the past two years covering everything Sandoval County-related from lengthy commission meetings to business, politics to animals รขโฌโ his favorite.
รขโฌลBeing the editor of a community newspaper is the best job in journalism,รขโฌย says Publisher Pat Davis. รขโฌลKevin is no stranger to a lot of our readers. For almost two decades, his byline has been telling New Mexicoรขโฌโขs stories from the bleachers on the sports beat to the front row of late night county commission meetings. We are incredibly excited to have him at the helm.รขโฌย
Thanks, Kevin, for taking over as editor of Corrales Comment, the paper I founded and published go 40 years. Please let me know if I can help. I would like to cover COP 30 for the Comment in Brazil next year. I began reporting on the UN climate change negotiations at the ver beginning in 1992. Or maybe you could do it! รขโฌโ Jeff Radford