It’s MediaChannel’s 10th year online serving as your media watchdog!
We are writing to all of our MediaChannel.org readers, friends, associates, and affiliates to mark our first decade as an online media issues network. Our survival alone is a cause for celebration – a decade of growth and impact is impressive in "Internet years."
At the same time, given the financial crisis, and the lack of funding that has already claimed some of our independent media colleagues, it is clear that if we are to survive, and sustain work that has been hailed worldwide, we have to reach out to the people who know our work best to become more active in their support on a regular basis.
We hope you share our belief that MediaChannel matters.
Please join us in celebrating our 10th year by giving us a much needed tax-deductible Happy Birthday donation!
Will you join our 10-Years-$10-Challenge by donating monthly to help MediChannel survive?
The Good News: Thanks to your support we have been "in action" for nearly a decade, serving as a high quality Internet destination and a source of information about the way media impacts, and sometimes undermines, our democracy.
Unique among websites, MediaChannel.org holds the rest of the media accountable with the best of the world’s media criticism and analysis — offering news, diverse global perspectives, and commentaries tracking international news flows. We cover breaking controversies, showcase change-makers, trends and cutting edge issues that you need to know about – produced by journalists for journalists and citizens.
We have many readers and friends the world over. Our content is republished widely. Everyday, we receive submissions from readers and media experts worldwide. Organizations honor us with invitations to forums and events, and bestowing awards such as the recent James Aronson Award for our contribution to social justice media.
Over the past 10 years, we have survived financial crises and organized hack attacks. We have managed to remain relevant and on the cutting edge in a quickly evolving online landscape when many other sites and organizations have come… and gone.
We are still going, and in fact, developing new features that will make our work more interactive and open to your input. We are about to launch MediaChannel 2.0 with the latest social networking tools. We will empower you to create your own blog, profile and presence on MediaChannel.org — among other concerned citizens who understand the value of holding the media accountable. We are almost ready to launch, with more financial support we can get there within the next few weeks.
If you would like to participate in this upcoming social networking and community effort, please email David@mediachannel.org.
*That’s the good news.*
The Bad News: The global financial crisis — which is bringing down major companies and markets — (and a crisis, incidentally, which we foresaw and focused on before most of the media we cover) is unfortunately affecting us too.
It is harder than ever to pay for independent media work, harder than ever to find grants, and to generate support from readers. Like many independent media outlets, our survival is at risk unless you, our readers, once again come to the rescue and make sustaining MediaChannel one of your priorities.
We know that MediaChannel is valued and appreciated. We know its mission is needed now more than ever. We know we have the expertise and passion to make MediaChannel more meaningful and sustainable.
Unless you take it upon yourself to respond, however, we also know that we will have to close our doors. Sadly, there is no stimulus package for stimulating content, no bailout for people like us who want to make change – not restore an unfair and dysfunctional economy. Will you join our 10-years-$10-challenge by donating $10 a month to help MediaChannel survive?
And so, we turn to you, to turn your support into donations that can keep us alive.
You are our only shot. We do not have a big university behind us or billionaire donors. We don’t have big PR firms flacking for us, or investors looking for a pay day. We are proudly not-for-profit with a tax exempt organization, the Global Center, providing fiscal sponsorship.
Your contributions to the Global Center keep us going.
You can donate online here or mail a check made out to The Global Center at this address:
575 8th Ave, Suite 2200
New York, New York, 10018
(Please write for MediaChannel in the memo section of your check.)
It’s been ten years, probably 70 in "internet years" where trends come and go. We are committed to making media a tool to strengthen our democracy. We are committed to continue to serve.
