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If you sign up to give monthly, NewsMatch and the Community Challenge Fund mean your monthly gift can have 36x the impact
over the course of 2024 — the entire annual value of your monthly
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With the challenges we face as a community, and the heated partisan
rhetoric about which set of “facts” to believe, there’s never been a
more urgent need for independent, transparent and vigilant local
reporting. Give your today to invest in TucsonSentinel.com’s
award-winning authentically local news for 2024 & beyond.
Since our founding nearly 15 years ago, you’ve come to rely on our reporting. A lot of Southern Arizonans have. No
one covers local politics, public policy and border and immigration
issues with the same skill, integrity and understanding as we do.
Local
nonprofit independent media outlets like ours face significant
challenges. We frankly struggle with resources and could certainly use
another couple of capable reporters digging into what goes on in this
town. Tucson needs that.
It takes a lot of energy and scrappiness to uphold the high quality of our reporting.
And it takes money. Our staff are talented professionals, some with decades of experience
in investigative and community journalism. And maintaining our
computers, website, cameras, replacing worn-out shoe leather and putting
gas in trucks for trips through the desert adds to our costs.
To make things work, we rely on donations from readers like you.
A smarter Tucson is a better Tucson
Keeping Tucson well informed is an important factor in the overall well-being of our community.
The Sentinel’s accountability journalism and celebration of Tucson’s unique culture has gained respect
not just locally, but across the country — that’s why we’re among the
leaders in the growing movement to rebuild local journalism from the
ground up (Dylan’s one of the founders of Local Independent Online News Publishers,
a national educational nonprofit). The Sentinel was one of the very first local nonprofit news outlets in the entire United States — we’ve pioneered the future of the news business right here in Tucson, with your help!
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Please join with your fellow readers and support TucsonSentinel.com. We’ll put your dollars to work holding politicians accountable, reporting the untold stories of the borderlands, and bringing you and the rest of Southern Arizona nonpartisan independent news without the spin.
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Here’s what’s scary
With the challenges we face as a
community, and the heated partisan rhetoric about which set of “facts”
to believe, there’s never been a more urgent need for independent, transparent and vigilant local reporting.
And sadly, chain media outlets run by companies headquartered thousands
of miles away have demonstrated that they’re not going to invest more
in our town. They’re just going to continue to cut.
You may not know that there are hundreds of journalists who are no longer reporting, just right here in Tucson,
compared to just more than a decade ago. There are only about half as
many newspaper journalists in this country than a decade ago. Layoffs
and shutdowns at chain newspapers and TV stations mean there are many
fewer watchdogs looking out for us than a decade ago. Across the
country, there are tens of thousands of reporters who’ve been laid off —
many just this past year alone. Even as our community is growing, our press
is shrinking dramatically.
That’s why it’s even more important to have journalism here that’s invested in the success and future of this community.
I
know an informed community is important to you, and that you understand
the consequences when watchdogs lose their teeth and are muzzled. We
can’t make wise decisions as a community without having solid, relevant
information. That requires a healthy press — and that requires readers
who recognize the value we deliver in making everyone in this town a
little bit smarter.
We’re committed to making quality news accessible; we’ll never set up a paywall or charge for our site. But we rely on your support to bring you, your neighbors and everyone else in Southern Arizona independent news without the spin.
Thanks for reading, and for your support of quality, nonprofit, nonpartisan local reporting.
cheers,
Dylan Smith & Maria Coxon-Smith
Editor & Publisher | Co-Publisher
TucsonSentinel.com
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P.S.
Journalism
is a vital public service in a democracy. Investigative reporting
uncovers injustice, exposes corruption and holds officials accountable.
Community reporting celebrates the unique nature of Tucson’s people,
reflecting our sense of place through a knowing lens.
We aim to
provide both: to point out the things we all love about Southern
Arizona, and point to possible solutions for what needs changing. We
believe that just as an unexamined life is not worth living, an
unexamined city is not worth living in. A smarter Tucson is a better Tucson.
But insightful reporting doesn’t come free. Make your gift today — you may make a one-time contribution, or sign up for a monthly subscription that supports nonpartisan reporting year-round.
Just one more thing:
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telling your friends and family about us, and why you believe truly
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