Sentinel News Project, a
new Texas nonprofit, is now running The Big Bend Sentinel, a publication that has been serving the town of Marfa, Texas since 1926.
“Our mission remains the same: To
report the news of the Big Bend region, focusing on its amazing people,” the Sentinel says in an editorial. “We’ll continue to focus on art and music. And the goal
is to get it right and to have a little fun along the way.”
The change took effect on September 15.
Selling the publication were documentary filmmaker Maisie Crow and her husband
Max Kabbat, a brand marketing consultant, who took over in 2019, the Sentinel reports.
They started the Sentinel café in a former bar and housed the newspaper office in
the back, it adds. They will continue to own and run the café.
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“We’re starting with a great platform: A lively independent newspaper with very loyal readers,”
says Roger Black, the new president of the Sentinel, the publication reports. “Reporting is our key purpose: People going out, observing, recording the news, and getting it
right.”
Black continues, “We have ambitious plans to increase and improve the editorial content, print and digital—written and visual. But first, we want to hear what readers
want.”
Key staffers will remain, including:
- Rob D’Amico, editor
- Sam Karas, reporter
- Mary Etherington, manager and
contributor
- Ariele Gentiles, copy editor