What is City Desk ABQ?
City Desk ABQ was launched in 2024 to fill a growing gap in local information and coverage of local government in Albuquerque and Bernalillo County.
Two former elected officials, one Democrat (former City Councilor Pat Davis) and one Republican (former Sheriff Darren White), founded City Desk to introduce a civic journalism and solutions reporting approach to local government reporting.
The goal: increase public awareness and participation in local government decisions that determine Albuquerque’s future.
Our evolution.
City Desk was launched in January 2024 as a nonprofit newsroom project of Citizen Media Group and nm.news. In the first year, reporters, freelancers and community contributors produced over 1,500 stories not covered elsewhere in local news and earned over 1 million local reads for those stories.
At the end of 2024, Citizen Media Group acquired the NM Political Report, a 1o-year old newsroom covering state policy and politics.
In 2025, Citizen Media Group merged the newsrooms of NM Political Report and City Desk under the NM Reports banner and launched a statewide news service sharing content from both outlets with news outlets statewide.
Learn more at nmreports.org
Submit a news tip.
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Contact our editor (see Our Team).
Our team.
Editor
Kevin Hendricks
Originally from Southeast Albuquerque and Highland High, Kevin Hendricks spent almost two decades at the sports and local news desks of the Albuquerque Journal and Rio Rancho Observer. In 2024, he joined nm.news and NMreports as a local news editor.
Newsroom
Rodd Cayton
Senior Reporter
Roberto Rosales
Senior Photojournalist
Jesse Jones
City Reporter
Abigail McDonald
Student Reporter, UNM Summer 2025
Publishing
City Desk ABQ is published by Citizen Media Group and Ctrl+P Publishing Inc. at nm.news
Pat Davis
Founder, Publisher