Longtime Santa Fe Reporter publisher Andy Dudzik will step down later this year:

Dudzik announced his decision in an email to staffers Wednesday.

“I first started at the Reporter in 1996 as an ad rep in display sales,” Dudzik wrote. “Two years later I took on the responsibility of managing both sales departments, and two years after that I was named the paper’s publisher, the position I’ve held since. This paper has been my professional passion for half my adult life, and it’s truly been a labor of love for me.”