Now in its fifth year, our 2024 New Mexico Local News Accelerator cohort kicked off last Friday with a Demo Day full of presentations from platforms and products to boost newsrooms’ technology back end. This year we are pleased to welcome many first-time participants and startup newsrooms from our Incubator program.
Through this program, we offer newsrooms a $6,000 grant, one-one-one coaching, along with opportunities for networking, collaboration, and support from other participating newsrooms. The full list of this year’s class of local news publishers is:
Abiquiu News
Get Involved Zuni
Mountainair Dispatch
New Mexico Jewish Journal
Raton Daily Record
Southwest Contemporary
Uplands-Uplifting News
89.1 FM Gila Mimbres Community Radio
Boomtown: Stories of a Changing Los Alamos
Deming Headlight/Silver City Daily Press
Cloudcroft Reader
KCCC 930AM
New Mexico In Depth
New Mexico Political Report
Roswell Daily Record
UpLift Chronicles
Click here to learn more about the New Mexico Local News Accelerator 2024: https://www.nmlocalnews.org/accelerator/
About the New Mexico Local News Fund
The New Mexico Local News Fund aims to grow the ecosystem of local news across our state to better serve the information needs of all New Mexicans. To accomplish that ambitious goal, we work with both existing newsrooms and trusted community organizations. Our goal is ultimately for everyone to have access to the local news and information they need to thrive. The New Mexico Local News Fund is a fiscally sponsored project of the Santa Fe Community Foundation.
Click here to support the New Mexico Local News Fund: https://santafecf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/fund?funit_id=1552
Media Contact
Name: Rashad Mahmood, Executive Director
Phone: (443) 486-2406
Email: rashad@nmlocalnews.org
