Your Donations Will Help Us Thrive
News You Might Have Missed was founded in the wake of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as a means of giving Americans access to important world and national news that gets continually shut out or overlooked by profit-focused news media.
We've published NYMHM every Wednesday since February 2002, with only one paid freelancer backed by a team of pro bono editors.
But there was no edition of NYMHM last week. We took the time out to show how you can support this important work.
$2,000. That's how much we need to raise, in order to keep NYMHM alive and thriving this fall and winter.
Your donations will make it possible.
It's an absurdly small amount of money. $2,000. In big media, $2,000 wouldn't even fund a CEO's weekend junket to a D.C. business conference and awards ceremony.
But for Newsdesk.org, $2,000 is months of news programming. The funding goes directly Julia Scott, the freelance editor and journalist who has researched and written NYMHM every week since 2004.
Over the years, Newsdesk.org and News You Might Have Missed have remained a vital source for important journalism thanks to the support of individual donors like you.
We have big plans to develop income through syndication and, yes, grantseeking. But we need to
sustain the foundation of our coverage as we take it to the next level.
That foundation is News You Might Have Missed.
It's a demonstration of our values and intent as editors and journalists.
It's a showcase for the important news the mainstream misses the boat on day after day, week after week, year after year.
And it's just the beginning of our efforts to build a new kind of nonprofit, commercial-free news outlet for the digital age.
We need $2,000 to keep NYMHM alive for the rest of the year. We need another $6,500 to publish it every week throughout 2008 -- a crucial year for news media and democracy in general, with the presidential
elections coming up amidst war, terrorism, and economic and environmental uncertainty.
$2,000. Think about everything we've achieved on such small sums of money.
Now imagine what we could do with a real newsroom budget! Well, we have a bit of work left before we're running a million-dollar newsroom. But we're building it brick by brick.
And we're going to succeed, with your help. The value of your donations are multiplied many times over by our hardworking, and mostly volunteer, staff.
Thanks for your support of journalism for democracy!
Sincerely,
Josh Wilson
Editor * Newsdesk.org