Local Journalism Thrives on Ambition and Optimism

A few weeks ago, Bob Moore, the founder and CEO of El Paso Matters, was in the courtroom for the sentencing of the gunman who carried out the 2019 Walmart mass shooting in El Paso. Years after the national cameras had moved on, Bob was there.

In his reporting, he described a moment when two Latina women—survivors—crossed the courtroom to embrace and show mercy to the man who had hatefully targeted their community.

Bob wrote: “I’ve been in journalism more than forty years and seen a lot, but what I saw today in an El Paso courtroom had a power I’ve never before experienced.”