Santa Fe Reporter honored for using public data to list the wealthy
Corey Pein of the Santa Fe Reporter set out to find the wealthiest among Santa Fe residents… His story won first place in the AltWeekly Awards for Innovation/Format Buster.
Rosland Gammon for businessjournalism.org, July 21, 2010
SF Reporter: Tea and Private Security
Imagine a complex lawsuit. It involves the intersection of religion, business and private security, which could be hard to wrap your head around.
But, Corey Pein did just that. His cover story in this week’s Santa Fe Reporter looks at the evolution of the Sikh dharma sect in New Mexico. Pein joined us from our Santa Fe newsroom to talk about how the death of the groups leader several years ago led to a split among followers today.
KUNM News, July 8, 2010
KHALSA vs. KHALSA
A Simmering Lawsuit Could Decide The Fate Of A $1 Billion Sikh Empire
The siege on the second floor was the most dramatic moment of a coup, years in the making, that went down seven months ago in dusty Española.
The modesty of the setting belies the stakes: control of a large private army that has won more than $3.5 billion in government contracts, ownership of a trans-Atlantic natural foods empire and, not least, the fate of an influential decades-old religious sect called Sikh Dharma.
Santa Fe Reporter, July 7, 2010
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