{"id":240867,"date":"2026-04-08T20:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/240867\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:27:12","slug":"el-paso-community-foundation-joins-movement-to-stress-importance-of-local-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/240867\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Community foundation joins movement to stress importance of local journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;KTSM&quot;}\" class=\"link \">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014\u00a0The El Paso Community Foundation is joining a nationwide effort to spotlight the value of local journalism with the inaugural\u00a0\u201cLocal News Day\u201d set for April 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The event is part of the broader\u00a0Press Forward\u00a0initiative, a national network dedicated to strengthening local news through funding,\u00a0partnerships\u00a0and community engagement. Press Forward includes more than 40 chapters across the United States working to address financial challenges facing local news outlets and gaps in community coverage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The El Paso Community Foundation was\u00a0designated\u00a0an official Press Forward chapter in fall 2025. Since then, the Press Forward El Paso Chapter has been assessing the needs of the region\u2019s local news\u00a0environments\u00a0and\u00a0identifying\u00a0opportunities to support its long-term sustainability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As part of Local News Day, Press Forward El Paso will highlight local journalists and newsrooms on social media,\u00a0showcasing\u00a0their contributions to the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More information about Local News Day and Press Forward El Paso is available by following the El Paso Community Foundation and Puente News Collaborative on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014\u00a0The El Paso Community Foundation is joining a nationwide effort to spotlight the value&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[41219,138,140,139,92355],"class_list":["post-240867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-community-engagement","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-local-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}