Richard McCord

Raised in Georgia and trained in New York, Richard McCord was for more than twenty-five years a journalist in New York and New Mexico. In 1974 he founded the weekly Santa Fe Reporter, which won a national reputation for excellence, and was for fourteen years its editor and co-publisher. His work has been honored by the New Mexico Press Association and the Albuquerque Press Club, and on the national level by the Scripps Howard Foundation, the National Press Club, the National Newspaper...See more

Raised in Georgia and trained in New York, Richard McCord was for more than twenty-five years a journalist in New York and New Mexico. In 1974 he founded the weekly Santa Fe Reporter, which won a national reputation for excellence, and was for fourteen years its editor and co-publisher. His work has been honored by the New Mexico Press Association and the Albuquerque Press Club, and on the national level by the Scripps Howard Foundation, the National Press Club, the National Newspaper Association, Investigative Reporters and Editors, and with a runner-up citation for the Pulitzer Prize. His 1996 book "The Chain Gang: One Newspaper versus the Gannett Empire" placed second for the Mott Award for the best book about journalism that year. See less