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Christopher Fox Graham

AI failed Turing test, but is a sign of what’s to come

This week I received perhaps the oddest letter to the editor in my two decades at the Sedona Red Rock News: A letter generated by artificial intelligence, or AI. It began innocuously enough with a short introduction by the author...

Former Sedona City Councilman, current candidate, veteran and volunteer Mike Ward has died

Mike Ward, who served on Sedona City Council from 2010 to 2014, and was currently running for election to one of three open council seats, died Friday, May 3. Ward was a member of Friends of the Forest, serving...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney headline McCain Institute’s Sedona Forum May 3 and 4

The McCain Institute is hosting the 2024 Sedona Forum taking Friday and Saturday, May 3 and 4, at Enchantment Resort outside Sedona, starting at 2:30 p.m. The organization was initiated by the late U.S. Sen. John McCain . With the...

No easy solution from U.S. Supreme Court case on homelessness: City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson

Since the 2018 ruling Martin v. Boise, the law regarding homelessness and city ordinances prohibiting camping on public lands has been unsettled. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Boise that governments cannot criminalize normal human activi­ties, which includes...

Check out Lifestyles of Sedona in today’s newspaper

In today’s edition of Sedona Red Rock News, you, our dear readers, can find a copy of our biannual Lifestyles of Sedona magazine. This publication, which we have been producing for more than 20 years, is one of the highlights...

Sedona welcomes new City Manager Anette Spickard and wishes her luck

On behalf of the residents, taxpayers and extended community of Sedona, Larson Newspapers extends a warm welcome to Anette Spickard as Sedona’s new city manager. Sedona is a vibrant city, nestled amid red rocks and renowned for its artists and...

New abortion ban claims 1864 statute overrides 2022 law

On Tuesday, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled in Planned Parenthood v. Mayes and Hazelrigg that a statute drafted in 1864, some 148 years before Arizona became a state, was still in effect and threatens to jail for two to...

Our guidelines for political letters in election season

This is an 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 have longstanding policies...

With winter past, look forward to springtime events

The weekend’s hail and snowstorm was an unusual but not unprecedented event for March, but it should be the last freak winter storm we see before spring arrives in force. Springtime in Sedona is delightful, as the natural beauty that...

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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