NM news desert grows with closure of longtime Gallup newspaper

NM news desert grows with closure of longtime Gallup newspaper

The Gallup Independent printed its final Jan. 31, 2026 after 62 years as the area’s only newspaper publishing multiple times a week. (Photo courtesy Carol Sarath) The Gallup Independent, the longtime newspaper serving a town of 20,000 on the border of the Navajo Nation, published its final issue Saturday due in part to what publisher Bob Zollinger described as an economic “collapse” in the area. Zollinger and his father John ran the paper for th…