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We are seeing one of the worst winters in a generation for journalists.
CNN just announced it will cut several on-air reporters and hundreds of staffers. Newspaper conglomerate Gannett—the owner of USA Today and more than 100 local papers—has laid off more than 3,400 employees this year. NPR is operating without 11% of its workforce. TheWashington Post shuttered its award-winning Sunday magazine.
Common Dreams is not immune to this bad winter.
Our donations are down 22%, and if things don’t turn around for this crucial end-of-year drive, we will have to make difficult decisions about staffing as well.
Common Dreams is different from the corporate media. We don’t have shareholders to pay or a parent company to keep happy.
We don’t operate with any fat or excess—it’s just our website, our equipment, and our reporters. And every single one of them is essential to delivering the hard-hitting news that you rely on every day.
That’s why the downturn in donations is such dire news. If we don’t hit our goal this month, we can’t afford to keep operating as we have. It’s that simple.
