Christopher Fox Graham

City of Sedona releases results of Western Gateway / Sedona Cultural Park survey

The city of Sedona’s released the results of the recent Western Gateway/Sedona Cultural Park survey. Sedona City Council asked for a statistically valid public opinion poll to gauge the interest of Sedona residents by sending out a survey to registered...

Journalists adhere to a code of ethics to be fair & honest

Legally speaking, there are no licensing requirements or government agency that grants or revokes the job title of “journalist.” In common parlance, a journalist works for a newspaper, broadcast or digital media outlet that dissemi­nates news and information to...

Yavapai Community College takes step to replace inability with competence

It would seem that Yavapai College District Governing Board District 2 Representative Deb McCasland’s days as board chairwoman may be numbered. College-watchers are overjoyed that her dictatorial grip on power — silencing dissent from her colleagues, keeping board members’ issues...

Our guidelines for political letters in election season

This is a big election year. With every election comes the desire to voice views on political issues. As Sedona’s only newspaper and the largest news outlet in the Verde Valley both online and in print, we’ve had long...

Hoping all goes well as Artemis II preps for launch

As I write this on the morning of Wednesday, April 1, NASA is go for a launch on the Artemis II mission, that will send four astronauts around the Moon for the first time since December 1972. Barring a last-minute...

Sedona Police Department begins strategic plan

3-month assessment reviews staffing, officer training The Sedona Police Department has hired a national consulting firm to conduct what Police Chief Stephanie Foley describes as SPD’s first strategic plan — a three-month assessment that will examine staffing levels and patrol...

‘Artificial intelligence’ is a tool that lacks humans’ understanding

The digital tools we called “artificial intelligence” are becoming ubiquitous elements of our online life. First emerging to speed up online searches, they’re used by websites as customer service chatbots, for making images and videos for compiling and analyzing...

Take city survey about future plans for Western Gateway and Sedona Cultural Park

The Sedona City Council will soon be mailing out to registered voters within city limits a survey about what to do with the Western Gateway property, which includes the Sedona Cultural Park and the Georgia Frontiere Performing Arts Pavilion....

Come see Sedona’s St. Patrick’s Parade on March 14

While Tuesday, March 17, is St. Patrick’s Day, Sedona’s nearly annual St. Patrick’s Parade will be held this Saturday, March 14. A few weeks back, we encouraged local groups and organizations to sign up to march in the parade and...

‘Sovereign citizen’ ideology only leads to failures in court

Readers of our police reports may note the unusually high number of fictitious license plates in traffic stops. Sometimes these traffic stops escalate into more serious charges when a driver who is lawfully detained for a traffic violation winds...

About Me

Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been a guest contributor in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured in the LA Times, New York Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He lectures on journalism, media law and the First Amendment and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."
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