BY TODD SPANGLER / VARIETY National Research Group (NRG), an entertainment and tech research firm and strategy consultancy, has hired Grady Miller, previously head of consumer insights for Apple TV Plus, as chief marketing officer. It marks Miller’s return to NRG, where he was most recently VP of strategy before exiting to join Apple in November […]

BY RANDY HARRISON / JOURNAL SPORTS EDITOR Notah Begay III has been in elite company all his athletic life. The four-time PGA Tour winner and current television commentator on golf is one of the four athletes to be inducted into the 2022 class of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) National High […]

BY STEPHANIE MEHTA / FOR FASTCOMPANY It may have started with a dress code. When tech entrepreneur and investor Tom Chavez was a senior at Albuquerque Academy in the 1980s, he bristled at the private school’s clothing rules—no jeans, collared shirts—a holdover from the school’s roots as an elite boys’ prep school. “I thought it […]

BY GLEN ROSALES / FOR THE JOURNAL Michael Graczyk and Jeff Rowland have been friends since attending La Cueva together some 20 years ago. They were among the leaders on the New Mexico men’s soccer team to reach the NCAA title game in 2005, coming perhaps within a missed penalty kick of winning a national […]

AUCD – November 17, 2021 Michael Baca was recently named administrator of the Center for Disabilities and Development (CDD), University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital. CDD is home to Iowa’s UCEDD and it’s the state’s tertiary level diagnosis and evaluation center for people with disabilities. Baca serves as a member of the core faculty […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – November 16, 2021 Cambium Carbon, an organization that upcycles fallen urban trees to grow green jobs and mitigate climate change, has been awarded The 2021 J.M.K. Innovation Prize.  From a nationwide search for transformative, early-stage projects, The J.M. Kaplan Fund awards the Prize biennially to ten innovators in the fields of social justice, the environment, and heritage conservation. Awardees receive […]

By Jimmy Vielkind / The Wall Street Journal New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has tapped an Obama administration veteran to be the state’s top financial regulator, officials said Tuesday. Adrienne Harris was nominated to lead the New York State Department of Financial Services, which oversees insurance companies and state-chartered banks. Ms. Hochul, a Democrat, said […]

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS The Charlotte Hornets are working toward a multi-year contract extension with head coach and Albuquerque native James Borrego. There is an agreement in principle with Borrego, the Charlotte Observer and ESPN report. Borrego, an Albuquerque Academy alumnus, is entering his fourth season leading the Hornets. He had been entering the final season […]

BY JAMES YODICE / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER The 2013 Albuquerque Academy graduate will be competing in the Tokyo Olympics, swimming on the 4×100-meter freestyle relay team for the Czech Republic. Since her mother, Radka, is from VlaÅ¡im, a city of about 11,000 people located roughly 45 miles south of Prague, Apostalon, 26, was eligible for […]

BY JAMES COLGAN / GOLF You know Notah Begay. Perhaps as a former professional golfer and four-time winner on the PGA Tour. Or maybe as a Golf Channel analyst, where he has served in a variety of roles at a variety of tournaments over the last several years. But what you don’t know about Notah […]