What we do.
We provide a platform helping New Mexicans to understand their role in local democracy and inspire them to join in.
We support democracy by explaining the who and why behind decisions that impact our well-being.
And we elevate local stories, artists and experiences that define and celebrate what it means to be New Mexican.
Our newsrooms.
We are a 100% New Mexico-owned publishing company serving local news publishers and content creators who love New Mexico as much as we do.
We help 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 nm.news platform powers the largest digital news subscriber list in the state. Our newsrooms help to bring local and state news to more than 50,000 digital and print readers each week.
Recognitions
Top LGBTQ-owned Company, ABQ Business First [2023] [2024]
Our nm.news platform powers the Santa Fe Reporter, Sandoval Signpost, Corrales Comment and The Independent which are owned by Ctrl+P Inc. The Paper., ABQ’s weekly, is co-owned by Pat Davis, Ctrl+P’s publisher and owner, and Good Trouble LLLP.
We also publish nonprofit publications City Desk ABQ and NM Political Report for the nonprofit Citizen Media Group.
Our mission.
Preserving journalism for local democracy
We focus on covering local government, arts and features from a civic journalism perspective (covering decisions and events before they happen so readers can engage, instead of writing up what was already done)
Since 2020, we have acquired 5 local publications and worked to transition them to a digital-first daily model while repurposing print as long-form and feature publications.
Our publications include The Paper.(ABQ), Santa Fe Reporter, Sandoval Signpost, Corrales Comment and The Independent News.
Innovating with new publications to fill news gaps
We also partner with the nonprofit Citizen Media Group to publish nonprofit digital outlets to provide in-depth coverage of government and politics. These sites act as the “city desk” and “state government desk” for other outlets around the state.
Our newsrooms also host student and early-career journalists in the nonprofit’s local reporting training program, helping to expand the skillset of government reporting statewide.
Why?
New Mexico lost 23% of its journalists in two years and we have far fewer journalists per capita than many other states.
But we still seek news locally, when we can find it. 55% of New Mexicans seek out local news from trusted local news sites – more than social networks (41%) or radio (45%) — but fewer of those trusted options exist.
New Mexico is losing local newspapers at an astonishing rate and in direct proportion to the increase in voter apathy and declining civic participation.
Our model.
In 2024, we began a transition from being a publisher of newspapers into a platform for local content and content creators and civic engagement.
Each publication must retain editorial independence. Readers can tell when content is made from AI or a reporter who has never lived there.
Small newsrooms can’t provide local coverage and everything else in the same day – but the network can. Local reporters cover local really well. The network “fills in” state, national, arts, and events coverage that has appeal across the network.
While content must be local, revenue does not. By selling digital and print advertising across the network – not individually – we can provide advertisers with a larger audience and just one sales relationship to manage.
Investors and grantors supporting our work.
Our story.
Preserving journalism for local democracy
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. Under leadership of Tierna Unruh-Enos, former Alibi staff and a group of local news fans turned investors, the team launched 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 Pat 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. With help from supporters to the NM Local News Fund and Press Forward, Ctrl+P returned the Independent to publication and hired a new reporter.
In 2024, Davis and a group of local news fans from Santa Fe purchased the Santa Fe Reporter from its long-term owners, bringing it back to New Mexico ownership for the first time in almost 30-years.
Our partnerships.
NM Reports & Citizen Media Group
We partner with the nonprofit publisher Citizen Media Group in their mission to rebuild local news reporting for news deserts and underserved news communities.
Using their City Desk model, we train reporters in civic journalism: reporting to explain the reader’s role in civic democracy by reporting to inform and inspire participation in public decisions. Learn more.