A Short Documentary About Creating The Southlander
It's been a year-long journey. We need your help to reach the next milestone.
As journalists, we recognize that we need to lead the fight against the onslaught of authoritarian attacks on the free press. We believe our worker-led model makes us as impervious as possible to these types of restrictions and intimidation tactics. For one, we don’t have a billionaire owner that cozies up to an autocrat who ordered a reporter's murder.
This started as a passion project that was initially sustained by the team’s time, labor, and wallets.
But here’s the bottom line: We need your help now. We need to raise $2,000 in monthly subscription revenue to start publishing original reporting. That number covers our ongoing expenses and allows us to budget for the work we actually set out to do: Journalism.
If you are currently on a free subscription, please consider contributing to The Southlander by signing up for a paid subscription. Subscriptions start as low as $5 a month. If you wish to make a one-time, tax-deductible donation, please reach out directly and we will connect you with our fiscal sponsor, Report For America. Big thank you to those who have already signed up as paid subscribers, you’ve helped us get nearly a third of the way to our goal!! 🎉💵
While you've only seen a little bit of our journey to create The Southlander, this newsroom has been in the works for almost an entire year. Check out this behind-the-scenes look into why we are building the first worker-led newsroom in Greater LA. In this short documentary, you’ll hear our perspectives on why an investigative news co-op is needed, especially in the Southland. It was produced by co-founder Morgan Keith, as a final project toward her master’s degree at Cal State University, Northridge.