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I’m the editor of LAist, and I consider the job we do here essential to the health of Southern California. If you’ve come to rely on LAist in your inbox each morning or turn to LAist to understand complex issues in your city, please take a moment right now to put a dollar value on this service and make a donation.
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Local reporting from LAist is powered by the community.
During this Fall Member Drive, we’re looking for 1,000 readers to make a donation. When you help us meet that goal, it will unlock a $10,000 gift! On a normal month, (I mean, what is normal any more anyway?) we have over a million readers on the site, so getting 1,000 readers to donate is possible, but we need your help — please don’t assume someone else will step up.
Speaking honestly about our finances, we’ve seen some awesomely generous donations come in from readers, but we haven’t yet seen the scale of community support that it takes to make this sort of local reporting sustainable. You have a direct impact on the future of LAist.
You rely on LAist to stay informed on the wide variety of important stories we cover each day. From door-to-door vaccine distribution for those with limited mobility and how and when to get a COVID booster shot, to accessibility of school lunches, reporting on how the census numbers affect us locally, and countless stories like these, LAist taps into the flow of information in our city and makes good on our promise to be your source for reliable local news.
We don’t rely on paywalls for financial support because we believe that the information we report is for everyone in the community to access and utilize. So if you’ve been enjoying LAist content to live an informed and healthy life and are in a position to help, please make a sustaining gift to help keep this news experiment funded for the many months to come.
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One year ago, Congress voted to defund public media, eliminating a critical $1.7 million from our budget every year going forward. But they couldn’t silence us, and we’re not going anywhere. LAist is now 100% community funded and that means we’re taking our future into our own hands and turning to you to keep local reporting strong.
You come to LAist because you want independent reporting and trustworthy local information. Our nonprofit newsroom doesn’t answer to shareholders looking to turn a profit. Instead, we answer to you and our communities. We are free to follow facts wherever they lead and to hold power to account without fear or favor. Our only loyalty is to our readers and listeners and our mission: to inform, engage, and strengthen Southern California’s communities.
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You come to LAist because you want independent reporting and trustworthy local information. Our nonprofit newsroom doesn’t answer to shareholders looking to turn a profit. Instead, we answer to you and our communities. We are free to follow facts wherever they lead and to hold power to account without fear or favor. Our only loyalty is to our readers and listeners and our mission: to inform, engage, and strengthen Southern California’s communities.
If this story helped you, please become a monthly member today to help sustain this mission. It just takes 1 minute to donate below.
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