EL PASO, Tx., September 1, 2025: From “Adios, amigos” on October 11, 1997 to “Hola Amigos,” in 2015, today marks the rebirth of a 100-year-old El Paso news institution – the El Paso Herald Post. The El Paso Herald Post returns to provide you with comprehensive news coverage for El Paso and surrounding communities.
After reporting the news for 116 years, the El Paso Herald Post published its last newspaper on October 11, 1997. Its last headline read, “Adios, amigos.” It remained dead until long-time journalist now at KTSM, Chris Babcock, revived it as a digital newspaper with the appropriate headline “Hola, Amigos” in 2015. Babcock closed the newspaper five years later to concentrate on his job at the television station.
Today we announce the rebirth of the El Paso Herald Post with a warm “Bienvenidos al future.” We are working hard to keep the spirit and the determination to report news honestly that made the El Paso Herald Post the newspaper that it was for over 100 years, first as the traditional newspaper and later as its reincarnation as a digital news outlet. We believe that this latest reincarnation represents the beginning of what the newspaper of the future is.
Today’s headlines spell the “doom” of the news media and news consumers have lost faith in what the news reports. By losing faith in the news, consumers aren’t willing to pay for it, and rightly so. It wasn’t like this. Without a sustainable revenue source over the last decade, local newspapers are dying. El Paso isn’t immune. The El Paso Times is but a shadow of itself. It’s last editor as the Times was declining left it and a few years later launched the El Paso Matters, the city’s defacto newspaper of record.
Such is the decline of the local news outlets that the El Paso Matters byline regularly appears on television news outlets across town.
Without a competing news outlet, news consumers are left questioning whether they are getting the full story or part of it. But the problem is not just whether the full story is being reported but that the decline in news outlets helps to fester corruption. As David Simon told a Senate subcommittee in 2009, “as newspapers collapsed, corruption would flourish.”
El Paso needs another news outlet to provide news not found anywhere else. When the original El Paso Herald Post existed, it provided a balance to the reporting being produced by the El Paso Times. News consumers benefited from two sources of news to consume.
But as the news delivery has changed from print to digital news consumers aren’t willing to pay for news until they believe that they are receiving professional, in-depth and timely news content.
That’s our mission, to prove to you that news can be delivered to you professionally and honestly. Our mission statement lays it out:
We believe journalism isn’t dead — but it needs to be reborn. The El Paso Herald Post exists to restore faith in the press by being the source of truth, not spin. Our coverage will be:
- Fact-driven and objective — reporting the challenges El Paso faces without selective editing or hidden agendas,
- Balanced and fair — giving equal weight to opposing viewpoints, so readers can make up their own minds,
- Accessible and people-focused — a platform where El Pasoans can be heard every day, and where elected officials are held accountable for their decisions, and
- Our only bias is El Paso itself — its people, its culture, and its future.
To help us become the professional news outlet you expect from us, long-time news professional David Crowder has taken the reigns of the El Paso Herald Post to ensure that what we deliver is professional, timely, and important to your community.
But we are also the future of the news.
We may look like a digital newspaper, but we are more than that.
In the coming months we will be unveiling new features that we believe will meet your news needs for generations to come. As a digital platform, we will be delivering the news not only in words, podcasts but also as mini newscasts that you can watch at your leisure to catch up on the important news you may have missed.
As a digital platform, we are not limited to space, columns or the number of pages. Because of that we can deliver not only the important news you need but also provide complete investigative reporting that includes the details that make important issues easy to understand to see how they impact your life.
The El Paso Herald Post is currently in the startup phase of operations. As a startup we are working to continue to build our platform and onboard reporters as well as introduce additional features. We believe you will be impressed with what we have in store for you.
We are looking for local news reporters willing to report the facts without worrying about whether it will get them in trouble. We are also looking for people wanting to build their news reporting portfolios. Let us know if you are one of those reporters El Paso desperately needs. We want to incubate the news reporters of the future.
A gaping hole in the news coverage in El Paso is the lack of comprehensive news coverage of local neighborhoods. Neighborhoods represent the core of El Paso and yet neighborhood associations are left to inform their neighbors. We want to become part of your neighborhood. Instead of waiting for the doom-and-gloom reports about your neighborhood, why not let us know what is going on in your community so we can report it. Better yet why not become a citizen reporter for your neighborhood? Let us know if you want to help keep your neighbors informed.
We are here to serve you. We hope you enjoy what we are producing for you. We not only encourage your comments and suggestions, but we ask you to keep us honest by challenging us to do better. Drop us a line at editor[at]elpasoheraldpost.com.
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