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Kendal Blust

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  • Assistant Professor of Practice, University of Arizona School of Journalism
As seen in: Here & Now Anytime, NPR, U.S. News and World Report, The Toronto Star, AZCentral | The Arizona Republic, Washington Times, WBUR-FM (Boston, MA), The World (Podcast), Arizona Daily Star, KRCC-FM (Colorado Springs, CO) and
@UAZJSchool Prof and freelance reporter in the AZ-Sonora borderlands. Formerly with the @fronterasdesk in Hermosillo and @nogalesnews. Dms open for news tips!

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Kendal Blust’s Biography

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Kendal Blust is a senior field correspondent with NPR member station KJZZ’s Fronteras Desk at the station’s bureau in Hermosillo, Sonora. She covers a wide range of stories from northern Mexico including cross-border business and trade, immigration, education, women's movements and the environment. She recently won awards for her reporting on the collapsing sewage system in a Sonoran coastal town, rising violence in the state and families struggling to adapt to the challenges of distance learni…

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Family unites to restore historic ranch

Family unites to restore historic ranch

The historic Rancho Santa Cruz has reopened as a B&B after Susan Berryman and her family came together to res…

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'Do you shoot rockers?'

'Do you shoot rockers?'

When rocks started falling around then-Border Patrol Agent Shandan Wynecoop the night of Oct. 10, 2012, he wa…

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City sees tax boost from online purchases

City sees tax boost from online purchases

On Friday afternoon, Mirna Casarez loaded her arms with about a dozen cardboard boxes and metallic pink envel…

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Entrepreneurs push grassroots innovation in Ambos Nogales

Entrepreneurs push grassroots innovation in Ambos Nogales

From yard work to babysitting, grocery shopping to plumbing fixes, Francis Glad's business Mi Friend On Deman…

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Giant puppets frolic at the border fence

Giant puppets frolic at the border fence

Reaching out with large hands made of recycled water bottles, five 15-foot tall puppets met at the U.S.-Mexic…

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Moves raise open government concerns

Moves raise open government concerns

A recent series of controversial decisions made by the Nogales City Council with little public discussion has…

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#SEJ2025 - Confronting the Past, Surviving the Future

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By Kendal Blust
| Society of Environmental Journalists Verified
SEJ News: #SEJ2025 — Confronting the Past, Surviving the Future By Kendal Blust The 2025 Society of Environmental Journalists conference in Tempe, Arizona, could not come at a more crucial time — for our country, our profession and the planet. This year’s conference — “Heat, Water and Growth: Confronting the Past, Surviving the Future” — celebrates 35 years of SEJ’s commitment to more and better coverage of environment-related issues.
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Sonoran activists march to demand access to abortion care

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By Kendal Blust
| KJZZ's The Show
A group of protesters hold up signs that read, "legal," "safe," and "free," during an abortion march in Hermosillo, Sonora, on Sept. 28, 2022. On Sept. 28, hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Hermosillo, Sonora, to recognize International Safe Abortion Day, when, for decades, people across Latin America have protested to demand abortion rights. Women chant "we must abort this patriarchal system" as they march through the streets of Hermosillo Wednesday night.
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Kino Bay’s Becerra family gave up traditional fishing to focus on saving sea turtles

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By Kendal Blust
| The World (Podcast) Verified
Green sea turtles are an endangered species and among the largest of their kind in the world. They’re also the only herbivorous sea turtles. Now, some conservation groups are trying to protect them. A group of volunteers were afloat in a small blue and white boat, or panga, just off the shore of Laguna La Cruz — a wetland area on the southern end of Bahia de Kino, Sonora, on the Gulf of California.
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