Support Texas Reporter & Big Bend Times

At Texas Reporter and Big Bend Times, we call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico.

This is a fundraiser for people who want to support the work we do. Texas Reporter covers Texas news with a global perspective and shares travel and reporting from around the world. Big Bend Times brings that same broad lens to original local reporting from Alpine, Marfa, Presidio, Fort Davis, Fort Stockton, Balmorhea, Pecos, Van Horn, Valentine, Lajitas, Terlingua, Study Butte, and other West Texas communities.

We don’t have a paywall, and you won’t get access to exclusive content by contributing here. But if you like what we’re doing—whether it’s our Gulf of Mexico coverage, our travel reporting, or our investigative work in rural Texas—this is a way to support it.

Your contributions will help fund more and better content. That may include journalism conferences, content collaborations, or paying other contributors to help grow our work. It all goes toward making Big Bend Times and Texas Reporter better.

If you live in the United States and make a contribution, and you email us to let us know, we’ll send you a real-life photo of the Gulf of Mexico as a thank you. You can hang it in your office, frame it, or do whatever you like with it. It might even say “Gulf of Mexico” on it.

We also appreciate the support some of you already give us on platforms like Meta—through subscriptions or stars. This is simply another option for those who want to help.

With thanks,

Texas Reporter & Big Bend Times