Welcome to Cochise Regional News

The investigative reporting newsletter focused on Cochise County, Arizona and the Southwest Region.

Welcome to Cochise Regional News (CRN), a newsletter of investigative public-interest reporting focused on Cochise County, Arizona, and the broader region.

CRN was created to address a deficit in our community— namely, the fact that we live in a bona fide news desert. Where we once had a healthy news media landscape, with several local newspapers in Cochise County and scores of publications in Arizona, we’re now whittled down to a few underfunded and largely toothless outlets.

Though traditional journalism has largely fallen in our area, our hunger— and need— for information has not dwindled. Unfortunately, much of that need is now being filled with inaccurate and misleading content spread through social media and partisan sources posing as legitimate journalistic outlets. CRN is a small attempt to counter that trend in our community.

Cochise Regional News will only provide factual, well-documented investigative reporting that is in the public interest, for the benefit of our community as a whole.

CRN is operated by investigative reporter, Beau Hodai. Hodai’s work has appeared in outlets such as Phoenix New Times, Tucson Sentinel, The Bisbee Observer, Carbon County News, and others.

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