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We’re sorry to see Civil go away, and we are forever grateful for the support they provided to The Sun. We could not have launched our site without their generous, no-strings-attached grant back in 2018. But the reality is that Civil made its last grant payment to The Sun back in October 2019 (six months earlier than promised), so we have been flying without a financial safety net since then anyway. We had high hopes for Civil and its vision of creating a new way to fund local journalism around the world, and we were saddened to see it fail. It was a worthy effort. Now for the good news: Our readers have stepped forward in a big way. We have seen remarkable growth in our membership, a 45% surge in the past eight months that has propelled us to the verge of 10,000 paying members. More than 50,000 people subscribe to our newsletters.
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Josh Davis (guerillaontologist@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 01:26:37 JST Josh Davis
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I started reading that paper, Nathan, and was intrigued by the first example you cite, of the Colorado Sun. Reading their website, they look like a good example of how community media can work. Besides a lot of good old fashioned community organizing work, they also had an initial input of capital. The initial funders bailed, but they had enough local support to keep it going. Enlightening on a number of fronts.
https://coloradosun.com/2020/06/04/colorado-sun-media-journalism-newspapers-opinion/
https://coloradosun.com/how-the-sun-is-funded/

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