Speak Up Las Cruces: Diana Alba-Soular on the Doña Ana Documenters Project
Diana Alba-Soular, southern project coordinator for the New Mexico Local News Fund, explained the Doña Ana Documenters project, which will pay residents $20 an hour to attend meetings of city councils, county commissions, school boards, and other public bodies and write notes of two to six pages that are edited and posted at documenters.org. The program, run with partner City Bureau and paid through Jobs for America’s Graduates, is in a soft launch aiming for one to three meetings a week. She also described the fund’s Southern New Mexico Journalism Collaborative and its matching funds for newsrooms such as KTAL. Orientations are set for November 12 at Branigan Library and November 19 on Zoom.
