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Pat Davis.
Pat Davis is a recovering politician and self-described news junkie. In 2015, he founded the state’s first non-profit newsroom covering the state legislature and politics, New Mexico Political Report.
After taking a detour to serve two terms as an elected City Councilor and City Council President in Albuquerque, he returned to his love for civic news and launched The Paper., Albuquerque’s alt-weekly, after the demise of the city’s beloved alt-weekly, The Weekly Alibi (RIP), during COVID. That project and the team of local news lovers it attracted eventually acquired three other community papers, The Corrales Comment, Sandoval Signpost and, in 2023, The Independent which was returned to publishing after closing in 2022 . The stories of transition and community reinvestment in local news helped Signpost and Independent to each secure inaugural $100,000 grants in late-2024 from Press Forward, a national movement “reimagining what local news looks like… and addressing the longstanding inequalities in journalism coverage and practice across the United States.”
In 2024, Davis led a group of local news lovers to acquire the 50-year-old Santa Fe Reporter and return it to New Mexico ownership. That same year, he worked with the nonprofit Citizen Media Group to launch a new digital daily, City Desk ABQ, to cover city government and to acquire and preserve nmpoliticalreport.com, the same outlet he had started 10 years prior, when its former nonprofit exited publishing.
In 2025, Ctrl+P launched nm.news, a new local news infrastructure network helping publications share content and subscribers for greater impact statewide.
Today, his Ctrl+P Publishing is the largest subscriber-based free news publisher in the state. The firm has been ranked by Albuquerque Business First as a Top 10 LGBTQ+- owned company for 2023 and 2024.
In a prior life, Pat served as a police officer with the US Capitol Police during and after 9/11, and later with the Metropolitan Police Department (Wash., D.C.) and as a Lieutenant with the UNM Police Department in Albuquerque. He is a graduate of Berry College, NMSU and the FBI National Academy.
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At last! New owner found for Corrales Comment (June 26, 2022)
