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Friend,
Another wave of journalism layoffs was just announced—this time at CityLab, the award-winning news site founded by The Atlantic to focus on the unique challenges faced by cities.
CityLab was bought out just three months ago by Bloomberg News, and they already announced that half the staff is being laid off.
These layoffs are just the latest example of the crisis in journalism that is threatening our very democracy.
Common Dreams will never be bought out by a corporation. We are nonprofit and accept NO corporate advertising.
Will you make a donation to help us meet our Winter Fundraising Campaign goal? We remain $30,000 short of the amount we need to raise by March 1 to continue providing the essential independent journalism you count on.
Over the last decade, half of the news room jobs in America have been eliminated.
Hundreds of newspapers have been shut down, and virtually every journalistic outfit in the country has seen dramatic reductions in staff.
At the same time, public trust in journalism is in steep decline. It's no wonder, considering just five major media conglomerates own 90% of the news outlets in America, and the most prominent television news sources are Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC.
The most important way to counter the corrosive effects of the corporate media is to support independent, nonprofit journalism, like the work we do at Common Dreams.
And the only thing that protects us from painful layoffs like at CityLab is you, our readers and donors.
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