We’re helping legacy local newspapers transform from a single-owner print-forward model to a collaborative local news service to provide local coverage and community connections sourced and delivered by local reporters, ad advisors and production teams still located right here in New Mexico.
Today, Ctrl+P’s collective has the largest digital news subscriber list in the state. Our newsrooms help to bring local and state news to more than 100,000 digital and print readers each week.
When local TV and print newsrooms announced plans to shrink their coverage of the state legislature in 2015, Pat Davis repositioned a local nonprofit to launch the state’s first daily nonprofit news outlet, New Mexico Political Report, to cover the session and syndicate coverage statewide.
He stepped back from nonprofit service to serve two terms as an elected city councilor and council president in Albuquerque, but was lured back during the COVID pandemic when the city’s beloved alt-weekly, the Weekly Alibi, stopped publishing. With the former staff and a group of local news fans turned investors and advertisers, Pat helped to launch the city’s first new print newspaper in 20 years: The Paper, a new weekly digital and print paper for the community.
A year later, when the owner and publisher of the 40-year old Corrales Comment announced plans to retire post-pandemic, he asked Davis to step in. The Sandoval Signpost soon followed and the Ctrl+P Publishing Group was officially born. In late 2022, The Independent, a weekly covering 4,000 square miles, closed after 20 years. Thanks to matching donations from the NM Local News Fund and local support, Ctrl+P acquired the assets of The Independent and returned it to publication in 2023.
After leaving public office, Pat and Darren White (another recovering politician and former journalist) launched City Desk ABQ, a new nonprofit daily news outlet covering local government and politics in Albuquerque.
In 2024, Davis led a group of local news fans from Santa Fe to purchase the Santa Fe Reporter from its long-term owners, bringing it back to New Mexico ownership for the first time in almost 30-years.
Today, Ctrl+P’s collective has the largest digital news subscriber list in the state. Our newsrooms help to bring local and state news to more than 100,000 digital and print readers each week.