Albuquerque — Andy Lyman, a 14-year veteran of New Mexico newsrooms, has been appointed as the editor of City Desk ABQ, the city’s new nonprofit digital news source, and The Paper., Albuquerque’s most-read arts, culture and alt-weekly newspaper.
Lyman is leading a new and growing newsroom team covering Albuquerque and Bernalillo County government, arts, culture and events as a part of the Ctrl+P Publishing group headquartered in Downtown Albuquerque.
“As we began planning last year to launch City Desk alongside The Paper., it was important that we find someone who is nostalgic for where Albuquerque comes from, but isn’t afraid to push our leaders on where we go from here. Andy has old Dukes t-shirts in his closet and feels at home in the press box at the Roundhouse,” says Pat Davis, owner/publisher at Ctrl+P Publishing. “He has helped The Paper. find a bigger voice as the city’s premier arts and culture publication and helped the new team at City Desk ABQ establish itself as the insider’s source to local government and politics.”
Ctrl+P’s leadership includes veteran newswoman Tierna Unruh-Enos, editor of a new combined metro newsroom publishing The Sandoval Signpost, Corrales Comment and The Independent News. Lyman and Unruh-Enos are joined by Elise Kaplan, who serves as editor over special projects at City Desk ABQ.
Ctrl+P also welcomed two new editorial staff to the team in recent months:
Katy Barnitz joins Ctrl+P as a copy editor. She has more than a decade of experience in local newsrooms, most recently as the digital editor at the Albuquerque Journal. She previously worked at the Santa Fe New Mexican and Gallup Independent.
Elizabeth McCall joins the City Desk ABQ team as a city hall reporter. Elizabeth recently completed a student journalism internship with Ctrl+P where she reported on local government for City Desk and The Independent News while attending New Mexico State University. She graduated in May and was promoted to a full-time reporter position.
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Andy Lyman covered local news for KUNM radio and the Daily Lobo while attending the University of New Mexico’s School of Journalism. He later joined the nonprofit New Mexico Political Report where Pat Davis served as founder and executive director, before joining the Santa Fe Reporter to cover local news and politics. In 2023, he returned to Albuquerque and joined Ctrl+P Publishing to lead The Paper. through the transition launching City Desk ABQ.
The Paper. was founded in 2020 by the staff of the former alt-weekly Weekly Alibi. It publishes weekly online and in print covering arts, culture, and community news in Albuquerque.
As a digital news startup, City Desk ABQ is rapidly growing to be a daily source of news about local government and politics. The newsroom recently celebrated an important startup milestone: 50,000+ weekly reads for four weeks in a row. City Desk is a project of the nonprofit Citizen Media Group and is in partnership with Ctrl+P Publishing.
Ctrl+P Publishing (newmexico.news) was founded by Pat Davis in 2022 to preserve New Mexico’s beloved local community papers and expand civic engagement through high-quality local journalism. Today it owns the Corrales Comment and Sandoval Signpost in Sandoval County, and The Independent News covering the East Mountains, Edgewood and Torrance County. It also publishes The Paper. in Albuquerque and City Desk ABQ, a nonprofit local government outlet, on behalf of the Citizen Media Group.