Albuquerque Biz First hires reporter to cover startups

Blake Driver has been hired by Albuquerque Business First to cover entrepreneurs and startups.

Driver writes, “I took a moment to savor the unbeatable second-story view of Downtown from my new desk. I couldn’t control the feeling that, after 15 years as a freelance journalist, I’d finally arrived, and also that I might still be daydreaming.

“I’m still pinching myself to prove that I really am the new Bizventures reporter for Albuquerque Business First. But this is very much a dream — one that has finally come true.

“I’ve covered homegrown micro-brewers, coffee roasters, fashionistas, politicos, urban foragers, food-truck operators, artists, show people, a few Cockettes, gay-nightclub owners, television dancer Cissy King and Tina Fey.

“For most of my rollercoaster reporting, I’ve often turned to Business First for solid research about the people and enterprises I’ve been assigned to write about. There’s no more reliable source for the nuts-and-bolts facts about what’s going on commercially, economically and socially in this town. I often found myself engrossed in its other stories, too. The articles about the people behind the businesses kept me hooked, and as a writer, I yearned to deliver the same kind of storytelling.”

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