El Paso News Site Restarts as Nonprofit

  • by Anna Whitney

Newspaper Tree, once an El Paso news fixture, is relaunching as a nonprofit news site.

Newspaper Tree shut down in 2010 after it was bought by the El Paso Community Foundation with the intention of turning it into a nonprofit. The paper, which covered El Paso, Juárez and Southern New Mexico as a for-profit online venture starting in 2003, plans to become a nonprofit organization focused on investigative and community journalism.

The paper’s name comes from a story in El Paso’s history. In the mid- to late 1800s, El Paso was a small adobe village that was ...

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