The County Desk Network
Independent civic news, one county at a time. Each county desk is a standalone publication — its own site, its own news radar, its own city pages — but they share an engine, an editorial discipline, and a network. If a story touches more than one county, you'll find it on every site it belongs on.
Live now
3 county desks publishing today.
Planned
On the roadmap — the engine is the moat; each new county is a config away.
How the network works
Every county desk runs the same engine — a nightly News Radar that pulls from .gov feeds, ISD newsrooms, and verified local papers, paraphrasing with strict sourcing discipline. A weekly Ask-the-Desk batch answers the actual questions people are searching for in that county, with answers grounded in primary documents. Sports, civic, schools, business, weather — all sourced, all dated.
Cross-county stories — Mineral Wells (Parker + Palo Pinto), Azle (Parker + Tarrant), Burleson (Tarrant + Johnson), Flower Mound (Tarrant + Denton) — surface on every desk they belong to. A reader in a border city sees coverage from both sides without choosing.
No ads. 1% of revenue goes to a local 501(c)(3) in each county each quarter. The model pays for itself and pays the community back.