Strengthening Local Reporting
Focused on the US-Mexico Border

Local news is a core component of healthy communities, a driver of civic engagement, critical to a functioning democratic republic. However, it is disappearing and creating a crisis that cannot be ignored.

Puente News Collaborative is a bilingual, nonpartisan, nonprofit newsroom, convener, and funder dedicated to high-quality, fact-based news and information from the U.S.-Mexico border. Launched as a pilot program in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez to preserve and protect local news ecosystems, we seek to expand on the success of the model to create a Journalism Superstructure that supports newsrooms and journalists along the entire U.S.-Mexico border.