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News industry analysts are declaring 2019 perhaps the worst year ever
for journalism.

Seven thousand eight hundred journalists lost their jobs this year, up
from 5,000 from 2014 to 2017. Outlets from CNN to Buzzfeed to local
newspapers all over the country were affected. Newspapers like the
Youngstown Vindicator went out of business entirely.

But Common Dreams is different. We're nonprofit, progressive, and
independent. Hedge fund managers don't dictate what we cover.
Journalists do. We cover the issues that matter, not just what gets
clicks, from the climate emergency to corporate corruption to America's
forgotten forever wars.

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As we approach 2020, the nonprofit, progressive journalism of Common
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Let's face it: The slow death of journalism may be the greatest threat
to democracy that we face today—more than Donald Trump, the role of
money in politics, or foreign meddling.

Today, vulture hedge funds and Wall Street bankers are calling the shots
instead of journalists, and the results are devastating. Corporate
bosses demand ever-higher profits, so ratings and clicks drive coverage
rather than journalistic judgment—and layoffs just keep coming.

WIth local newspapers being liquidated, city hall corruption goes
unreported. TV news has replaced original reporting with talking head
opinion shows that are cheaper to make but lack substance and erode
trust among viewers. Issues like war and peace, the climate emergency,
and corporate crimes get little or no coverage at all.

In the year ahead, the United States will choose a new president. A
conservative revolution is brewing on the Supreme Court. Voter
suppression and gerrymandering are undermining democracy itself.

Now more than ever, the nonprofit, progressive journalism of Common
Dreams is needed not just to inform readers but to defend our democracy.

Will you donate now to help meet our year-end fundraising goal of
$100,000 and prepare for the crucial year ahead?

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Kimberly Monaghan

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for the whole Common Dreams news team

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