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NewsMatch: Please join in building reader support for NKyTribune — get your contribution doubled


By Judy Clabes
NKyTribune Editor

As the NKyTribune rolls along toward its fifth year, it is enjoying tremendous growth, coping with the challenges, and joining again in the national NewsMatch campaign to reach out to individuals for sustaining support of its nonprofit public service news.

More than 150 nonprofit newsrooms across the country — including the NKyTribune — are participating in this year’s NewsMatch, the largest grassroots fundraising campaign for nonprofit news organizations.

NewsMatch will double individual gifts to the NKyTribune for any amount up to $1000. The campaign is on a tight timeline – contributions must be received by December 31.

The Trib is a nonprofit public service focused specifically on serving Northern Kentucky with its own newspaper, albeit online, and filling a void for readers.

We started from scratch, built a strong core staff, provided a needed service and focused on professionalism, ethics, and service.

We have had the incredible advantage of support from the business community and from the nonprofit funding community – two legs of our three-legged revenue-stream stool.

After dipping our toes into expanding our reader-support base in our first NewsMatch campaign last year, we are ready to more than double our reader-support this year. Our goal is to raise $35,000, which will be doubled by NewsMatch and local matches.

We’re still a small-but-committed staff: Mark Hansel as managing editor, Jacob Clabes as tech and editorial manager, Terry Boehmker on prep Sports, Don Owen as copyeditor and reporter, Gene Clabes on Twitter and editorial, Mike Farrell as news adviser, Jonathan Coffman on obituaries, Hannah Carver on news reporting, Vicki Prichard on features, and a strong stable of terrific freelancers and contributors.

We’ve built partnerships both locally and statewide, expanding our sources and deepening our content. We have offered community engagement opportunities, workshops and forums.

We offer free classifieds, free obituaries, a Community Calendar and more. We provide a marketplace for businesses — and for ideas.

We cover your news, your organizations, your businesses, your schools, your nonprofits, and your governments as much as humanly possible, using our resources – always – to improve and expand.

We are providing our region’s “tribal fire” – the news, features, and information that advances community engagement, good citizenship and a quality place to live and raise our children.

We still have a long way to go and we aren’t perfect. But we are traveling on that road – and your investment helps us move along on it.

NewsMatch will match every dollar you give – in any amount up to $1000 per INDIVIDUAL donor. No corporate checks. Just individuals. Contributions from an individual’s donor-advised fund or trust or managed funds are matchable.

Help us maintain the momentum. Become a sustaining member at a level that works for you and in the way that works for you. A monthly withdrawal from your checking account or through a charge to your credit card is also available.

Every donation matters.

To donate go to:

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Or send your check made out to Northern Kentucky Tribune to 644 Braddock Ct., Edgewood, KY 41017.

Your contributions are tax-deductible.

“There is an incredible amount of excitement building around NewsMatch 2018 from news organizations across the country,” said Sue Cross, Executive Director and CEO of the  Institute for Nonprofit News, which serves as one of NewsMatch’s nonprofit partners. “We are encouraged to see such strong growth in community support of local news.”

The Tribune is published by the Kentucky Center for Public Service Journalism.

The campaign is driven by a partnership with the  Institute for Nonprofit News and the  News Revenue Hub,  Democracy Fund,  the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the  Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation  and the  John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.  The Miami Foundation  serves as fiscal sponsor for the fund. The  Facebook Journalism Project also made a  $1 million donation to NewsMatch in 2018.

Knight Foundation launched the inaugural NewsMatch in 2016, helping 57 nonprofit news organizations raise more than $2.4 million. In 2017, the campaign expanded to include a coalition of funders and helped to raise more than $4.8 million from individual donors and a coalition of private funders. This year the number of nonprofit news organizations participating has jumped by more than 40 percent.

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