Supporting City Desk on #GivingTuesday

Our startup year is coming to a close. We’re thinking about how we can be even more impactful for Albuquerque in 2025. 

Did you know? In 2025, the mayor and five of nine City Council members — including all three Westside seats — are up for election. 

Whether you think Albuquerque is on the right track or a wrong one, we need trusted, unbiased journalists to check their records and challenge them on solutions. 

We see local news as a public service. Your donations made all of those stories available to anyone in Albuquerque for free — unlike other newsrooms that keep their reporting hidden behind paywalls and ads.

 “If you want to understand how ABQ really works,
this type of coverage is important.”

Anonymous Reader, June 2024, City Desk reader Survey

We’re still growing and learning what readers want most, but one thing we’ve heard from you: You love our journalism because it doesn’t just report what already happened, it explains the who, why and how behind the story and gives readers a chance to weigh in with elected leaders who make decisions.

That model of public service, nonprofit journalism will mean even more in next year’s big municipal elections.

Your 2024 year-end donation means more in 2025

We think what we’re doing is worth investing in and, thankfully, so does the New Mexico Local News Fund who is tripling each donation up to $500 for this year-end campaign.

What does that mean for us? Thanks to the Local News Fund…

• Your $50 donation becomes $150 and that gets bundled with five other $50 donors to pay our website bills for a whole month so we can keep bringing you City Desk for free.
• Your $100 donation becomes $300 and that gets bundled with three other $100 donors and that pays for a journalist to cover the city council or a specialty beat for two full weeks in 2025.
• Your $500 becomes $1500 and that covers the monthly stipend for a first-year or student journalist and their mentor working in our nonprofit newsroom, learning lifelong reporting skills.

We know you get a lot of asks this time of year. We hope you think City Desk is worth adding to your list. 

Whether you can give $25, $50, $100, $250, $500 or more, your donation helps us provide a public service democracy needs.

Thank you for supporting local journalists in your year-end giving.

Pat Davis
Publisher, Co-Founder
City Desk ABQ
pat@newmexico.news