Dear Readers,
The NKyTribune has been invited once again to participate in the generous national NewsMatch campaign, founded by a group of major national funders who aim to preserve, encourage, and sustain local independent nonprofit news in America.
The demise of local news as we always knew it — and expected — is well known, but there are diehard journalists and entrepreneurs — like the founders of the NKyTribune in 2015 — who have been determined to preserve local news in the communities they love.
NKyTribune’s founders and its dedicated staff — editors, reporters, writers, commentators all — are devoted to keeping local news alive and are dedicated to the principles of ethical journalism and community service.
NewsMatch offers a challenge match each year to encourage INDIVIDUAL support — and therefore broad community buy-in — for the notion that local news matters, that it should be nonprofit, and that the community should own it. The campaign ends December 31.
NewsMatch will DOUBLE the tax-deductible donations that individuals make to the NKyTribune — or to its nonprofit publisher, the Kentucky Center for Public Service Journalism.
These funds are meaningful to the Tribune as we plan for growth in 2026. New funds will be reinvested to pay for more reporters and freelancers, first, so that we can cover more stories and keep improving our FREE but heart-driven service to the NKY region. We do our best everyday but we know that for every story we do there are plenty more that we haven’t yet done. There will always be more — more stories to be told, more services to be provided… Resources matter.
We always wait until after Giving Tuesday is over to really kickstart our campaign, because — frankly — we want you to support hungry children and the homeless and the arts and education and opportunities for all those wonderful nonprofits who provide important and necessary human services. We particularly serve those do-good and make-better organizations ourselves and they deserve priority.
But now, it’s time to give some consideration to the importance of local news and the particular importance of nonprofit, public service journalism — and what it means to the quality of life of our community.
We hope you will agree that the NKyTribune is deserving, and that what we provide FREE to you every day is worthy of your support.
A private local — and wishing to remain anonymous — donor is going to add to the national NewsMatch funding and OVER THE NEXT WEEK your individual donation to the campaign will be TRIPLED. Yes, that’s an additional match so that your individual donation will not just be DOUBLED but will get an extra match.
In addition that same anonymous donor has a special incentive for donors OVER THE NEXT WEEK and that is for every single INDIVIDUAL who donates to the NKyTribune, $1 will go into a special fund to go to a local nonprofit that feeds the hungry over the holidays. That’s right — donors still get their daily news — and some hungry families get to eat too!
Thank you for your thoughtful consideration of a donation to the NKyTribune by clicking the link below or by sending your check to: The Northern Kentucky Tribune, 644 Braddock Court, Edgewood, KY. 41017.
We wish you all a very happy and wonderful holiday season.
Sincerely,
Judith G. Clabes
Editor and Publisher
The NKyTribune
