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Through its 100-year legacy, the Journal has taken a prominent role in protecting New Mexicans鈥� access to public records and open meetings. 

It has editorialized at great length on the importance of a free press and government transparency.

It has taken local and state government entities to court when they trampled on the public鈥檚 right to know. 

And for decades, it has been a major supporter of the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, the state鈥檚 leading nonprofit protecting public access.

As a top editor of the Journal in the late 1980s, Kent Walz was one of the founders of the organization and remained one of its leaders for nearly 25 years. The Journal was essential to the launch of the organization, with then-publisher T.H. Lang providing seed money. 

Walz recalls prominent free speech lawyer William Dixon 鈥渦sed to say that your First Amendment rights are hollow rights if you don't have any access to information. You can't really competently express opinions or even vote if you don't know what's going on.鈥�

Walz remembers the very day the idea of FOG was born.

He and a couple of other leading New Mexico journalists went to Santa Fe to testify for what Walz referred to as a piece of Sunshine Legislation. 

鈥淎nd (legislators) just totally dismissed us and said, 鈥榊ou're just a special interest group.鈥欌��

 The three decided something had to be done. 鈥淚 came back to (publisher) Tom (Lang) and said, 鈥� 鈥榃e'd like to talk about starting an organization that also involved the public and lawyers and teachers who actually do care about access to information.鈥欌�� Lang agreed.

At the time, the public was being denied access to such basic information as a resume of someone just hired by a state university or the amount a city paid a family after an officer-involved shooting.

鈥淚f you're going to exercise your First Amendment rights, you have to be able to have the ability to do it competently. You have to know what you're advocating for,鈥� Walz said. The Journal donated upfront money, and others pitched in as well.

Thus the NM Foundation for Open Government (NM FOG) was created. Its mission: to educate, advocate and, when necessary, litigate to ensure government transparency.

For the past nearly four decades, the Journal has continued being among the top funders of the organization. And newsroom leaders continue to provide support on their own time: Currently, Journal Assistant Managing Editor Lucas Peerman serves as president of the NMFOG Board of Directors.

In 2025, Journal Publisher Bill Lang received NM FOG鈥檚 prestigious Dixon Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of the Lang family for their years of defending the public鈥檚 right to know.

Karen Moses is a former editor of the Journal and can be reached at kmoses@abqjournal.com.

Coming July 12: Sir Richard Branson鈥檚 suborbital space flight from New Mexico鈥檚 Spaceport America in 2021; the deadly prison riot of 1980; and WIPP receives its first shipments of radioactive waste in 1999. These are just a few local stories that made national headlines. The Journal had a front-row seat to them all.