Source New Mexico won eight awards Saturday night at the annual Society for Professional Journalists’ regional Top of the Rockies competition. The contest, open to journalists in New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah, had 2,100 entries — the largest field ever, according to organizers — from 100 news media outlets and 25 freelancers.
Source NM’s awards included four first-place awards for staff reporter Patrick Lohmann.
Lohmann’s story in collaboration with the Texas Tribune investigating the rise in migrant deaths in the New Mexico desert in the aftermath of Texas’ border crackdown won first place for investigative reporting in the medium newsroom division…