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You might have some questions about The 51st, and we have some hopefully sufficient answers. You can learn more, watch our video (!) and donate here:
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🧵 When DCist was shut down, we watched as so many of you mourned the loss of a vital local news source. A team of us got to thinking: What if we could create an outlet controlled by us (the journalists) and you (our community)? No executives involved.
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We’ve launched The 51st, a worker-led nonprofit news outlet, run by and for residents of Washington, D.C.
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WWKD (what would Kojo do)? He’d support local news and donate to The 51st! Join him and donate before Day 3 of the fundraiser is out. And THANK YOU Kojo 🙏
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GOAL REACHED! 🎉With the help of 3,429 people, we’ve exceeded our goal for this launch campaign! Thank you for believing in the power of local journalism and trusting us with this project.
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A group of six DCist and WAMU alum have been building this outlet for months, and now we need your support. We’ve launched a fundraiser to help us make this thing happen, for real.
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You can learn more about our efforts, donate, and share at this link here.
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🎉🎉🎉 We’ve raised more than half our initial funding already thanks to all of you.
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Stop by and chat with us! We’re at the Dupont Farmers Market til 2 p.m. 😎
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Ummm are you really about to get us over $100k on our FIRST DAY!??!? D.C. community is amazing!!! We are so so in awe of this support!
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THANK YOU so much for the warm welcome. We're starting Day 2 strong with $114,054 (!!!!) contributed by more than 1,800 people! 🎉🎉🎉
Please continue to share and contribute if you can.
Here's some more information on what we're doing with the money:
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We hit $50k! Reaching 20% of our goal before noon means we have a shot at doing this for real. But even more than that, it's a proof of concept: our community knows local news makes their lives better and they want more of it.
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Help us surpass 5️⃣,1️⃣00 followers as we seek to connect with as many DC residents as possible while we build this newsroom.
(And remember, you can catch us IRL starting this weekend! Locations listed here: )
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"THE INTRIGUE: The 51st follows a trend of area journalists keeping regional coverage alive via their own startups as many local outlets shutter."
We can't wait to get to work.
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Oh hey! That’s us. Learn more about what we’re trying to do at The 51st, and what you can do to help strengthen local news in D.C.
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We do too! We could say "big shoes to fill," but we're hoping to be wearing different shoes entirely. Can't wait to get to work! 🤓
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We're over the moon communities across DC came together to help launch this worker-led newsroom!!! We exceeded (!!!) our $250K goal, with donations still coming. ()
This gives us a runway to work part-time through the end of the year. Let's do this! 🛠️🚀
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WOW! 🤩 Thank you all for getting us to $90k tonight!!! We're so blown away with this surge of support and so excited to build this together! Help us get to $100k by morning? 🗣️Tell your friends!
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Come out to Eastern Market and let us know what you want from local news! We’re at the intersection of 7th and C til 2 p.m. 😎🤩
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Come say hi!
We’re excited to hear from you, answer your questions and share more about what we’re working on.
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While we were busy building The 51st, there was plenty of news we would've loved to cover. Just for fun, here are a few of the sillier headlines we would’ve written…maybe 🤪
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We’re at the Bloomingdale farmers market til 1! Already hearing awesome ideas for local news in D.C. from people!
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So many of you have donated 🫶 Now, we need to you to help us spread the news. We have 48 hours to raise $16,000 to stay on track to meet our fundraising goals so we can bring you worker-led local news! Can you share our fundraiser with five people?
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We just hit our 1,000th supporter! 🎉 It's our dream to co-create this publication with you, our community. It means so much that so many of you have already shown up to help us make local journalism, and our city, better together ✨
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🧵ICYMI: Here’s a roundup of some local coverage from the past week. Scroll on to hear us yapping about local news and our dreams for The 51st!
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We reached 200k! 🎉 Thank you, thank you, thank you to every person who has supported The 51st. We have TWO (!) days left to reach our goal of $250,000…we know we can get there with your help! Donate and spread the word:
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Can you help us reach $151,000 this afternoon? We’re so close! Donate here to support worker-led local news:
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It’s been one week since we launched and we’ve already reached 70% of our goal… WOW! 🤩 We’re beyond grateful for the support so far. Keep spreading the word; we want to build this with as many of you as possible! 🛠️
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As
@Washingtonian
reported almost a month ago, it took less than two days to raise more than 50% of our fundraising goal. Now, we need to raise nearly $50k by tomorrow at midnight. Help us spread the word!
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Co-founders Maddie and Teresa are at 17th and Lamont streets for the Mt. Pleasant Farmers' Market. (
@MtPFM
)
We'll be here until 12 pm and can't wait to hear from you!
Our fourth weekend of in-person popups is here! Come say hi.
Meet some members of the team, get answers to questions about The 51st, and help inform how we build this local newsroom!
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Yes, D.C. deserves news WITH representation 🫶
Yes, local news is worth the fight 💪
Do you agree? We are in the final week of our campaign to make The 51st a reality. Join the more than 3,000 of your friends and neighbors that have supported us!
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Three weeks ago, we publicly launched The 51st, and the immediate outpouring of support and enthusiasm for worker-led local news floored us. Now, we have one week and $55,000 left to go before The 51st can be a reality. Can you help us get there?
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Yes! And with your help.
Stay tuned for our first issue and the launch of our membership program. 😎
With $250,000 in crowdfunded donations, founders of the 51st say they’ll be able to launch the local news site and weekly newsletter by Halloween. Will they be able to sustain this momentum long-term?
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It's the final day of our crowdfunding campaign. We know local journalism is best when supported by community! Join the 3,300 of your D.C. neighbors who have given to make this worker-led newsroom a reality:
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Almost $2,000 raised in just a few hours. We know we can do this together! 🫶
We reached 200k! 🎉 Thank you, thank you, thank you to every person who has supported The 51st. We have TWO (!) days left to reach our goal of $250,000…we know we can get there with your help! Donate and spread the word:
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We need to raise $17K more if we're going to reach $200,000 by Friday.
Donate now if you haven't yet:
And regardless, please ask your friends to help us build this!
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🧵It was inspiring to meet with you over the weekend! You had so many great ideas for coverage and hard-hitting questions, like “Is Bowser good?” and “How many birds are there in DC?” We can’t wait to get to work with you in answering some of those. (Prob not the bird one tho.)
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Just over 24 hours to go! This is community powered journalism!
Spread the word and help The 51st launch:
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🥳🥳🥳 THANK YOU to everyone who has donated, shared the fundraiser, or sent encouraging words. 60% of our goal just two days in!
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Ending the day with gratitude and some of the lovely sentiments we've been showered with throughout this crowdfunding campaign. We're energized by all of YOU.
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We’re almost two weeks into our campaign, and you have helped us raise $180k! Can you get us to $200,000 by the end of the week? Every $$ gets us closer to publishing day 🤠
You can donate here:
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We're two weeks into our crowdfunding campaign!
- Check out our update
- Donate if you haven't yet
- Help spread the word
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We need to raise about $12,000 more TODAY if we’re going to make our goal of raising $200,000 by the end of week 2. If you’ve been thinking of donating but haven’t, NOW is the time!
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We have 48 hours left to stay on track and raise $200,000 by midnight on Friday! Can you help us raise another $16,000 and help us bring a new community-driven, worker-led newsroom to DC?
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Just under ten hours to go and $35k to raise, it seems like A LOT but we believe in the power of our community and know that everyone pitching in what they can makes the biggest impact!
Link to give:
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We had a great time chatting with you this weekend at Eastern Market and 730 Day. Where should we go next?
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Obviously, these are some slightly unserious examples...but your support means we can pursue the funny, goofy, and light-hearted curiosities we love, while ALSO delivering the critical, useful, and informative news the community needs. You can donate here!
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Two of our co-founders sat down with
@povertynews
🔎 to share how we're building The 51st to serve DC residents.
Read more here!
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This successful campaign means we’ll be able to get the rest of our operation set up and begin publishing in the fall. This gets us several months' worth of a runway, with everyone working part-time and continuing to build The 51st collaboratively!
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Our fourth weekend of in-person popups is here! Come say hi.
Meet some members of the team, get answers to questions about The 51st, and help inform how we build this local newsroom!
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Before we started fundraising, or legally formed this nonprofit, we turned to our community for input. What should we call this community-centered, worker-led newsroom?
You know where we landed - here's why:
sooo let's say there was indeed a worker-led local news outlet covering D.C. in a smart, community-driven way......what would you want it to be called? 👀
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There are only FIVE days left of our campaign. We’re 78% of the way there. Can you get us to 80% by the end of the day? 🤠
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Thanks to everyone who stopped by and shared their ideas with us! We’re SO excited to be building this with you! 🥳🤩
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Come say hi this weekend!
We'll be tabling at the Ward 8 Farmers Market to hear more about what YOU want from local news as we build our organization.
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We're so excited to start reporting out your ideas, from covering housing, to healthcare, to transportation, to local events. But we need your help to get started. Can you spread the word in the final week of our crowdfunding campaign?
Thanks
@sdotpelt
for capturing our pop-up!
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"It’s important for us to have a less hierarchical setup than a lot of newsrooms...We really want journalism to be more circular." Read more about our dreams for worked-led news in our interview with
@janelle_cpp
of
@ObjectiveJrn
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With your support we've raised over $180k! But with less than 2 weeks left donations have slowed. To stay on track we need to raise $16k more by midnight Friday. Can you give us a shoutout in group chats, listservs, & on social media? It's a huge help 🙏
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Thank you to everyone who has given, if you haven’t yet and still want to - fear not, we’ll be leaving this donation form open until we have our site + membership launched! We’re excited to be publishing local reporting for D.C.!
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We are down to the final week of our fundraiser and we still have to raise $55,000 to reach our goal. Can you help us get across the finish line and build a new worker-led local news source for DC?
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3,420 (!!!) people have given to help launch The 51st! (Seriously!) Add your name to the list:
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You can help get us over this milestone ❤️🔥➡️
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With just over a week left of our crowdfunding campaign, there's still about $56,500 left to raise. We can’t wait to build The 51st with all of you — but without enough community support, our job gets harder.
Donate today to support news for D.C.:
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Two of our co-founders,
@abbyhiggins
and
@colleengrablick
, talked to the
@ObjectiveJrn
about community engagement, the crisis in local news, being worker-led, and what makes us so proud to call DC home.
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This morning we’re at the Takoma Park Farmers Market, at the corner of Carroll Ave and Laurel St.
Stop by and share what YOU want from local news!
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We are IRL again this weekend — this time at the Bloomingdale Farmers Market. Come see us and bring your feedback, dreams, and visions for local news. We’re taking notes 📝
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We're so close to launching a worker-led local newsroom for D.C.! Check out the
@washingtonpost
story by
@ElaheIzadi
to learn more about The 51st, and help us cross the finish line by supporting today.
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Less than 3 days to go!
Just doing some quick math: We’re $663 away from reaching $200,000!
Meaning 13 people giving $51 each would get us there!! Will you be a part of it?
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Can you help us get to $200,000 by the end of the day?
Join the 3,100+ people who have supported our vision for community-centered, worker-led local news serving DC. >>
Already donated? Please share with your friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers!
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"We're not only going to be making collective decisions between ourselves and our community about what we cover but also the direction of our newsroom and the structure and the decision-making in our newsroom," our cofounder
@abbyhiggins
said in
@axios
?
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“This is something that we want to do with the community. It’s not something that is going to only come up out of our six collective minds,” our cofounder
@tfrontado
told
@washingtonian
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“All six of us have been working in a volunteer capacity putting just love, sweat and dreams into it,” said our cofounder
@maddiepoore_
in the
@washingtonpost
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The best part of this journey has been meeting community members and hearing what y'all want from local news. So far, we have popped up in Wards 8, 6, 5, 4, 3 and 2. WHERE SHOULD WE GO NEXT?
(and thank you
@sdotpelt
for capturing the team at Bloomingdale Farmers Market)
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If you are one of the 2,875 people who have donated so far, THANK YOU! We are honored by your support 🙏
Want to do more? Please help us spread the word about this project!
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What we are doing is covering the issues that we see as really important in the city. That people really need to and want to know about. But we're also covering things that are just about the fabric of the city. What is it like to live here?
@ndelgadillo07
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In our convos at the Ward 8 and Dupont farmers markets, it was clear the community doesn’t just want more local journalism, but dynamic local journalism: reporting that calls attention to problems and tries to fix them, and also celebrates the accomplishments of D.C. residents.
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Look at all of the other great organizations we'll be popping-up alongside at 730 Day this weekend. Come say hi!
SUNDAY: celebrate 730 Day
@EckingtonHall
with 🌮, 🍺 from
@RightProperBeer
+ local nonprofs
@spurlocal
@DCJusticeLab
@ourminds_matter
@teachingchange
,
@mothersoutreach
@DCPeaceTeam
@shoutmousepress
@HumanitiesDC
&
@WashLegalClinic
++
@51stnews
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We heard from
@givebutter
that they are experiencing an issue with the supporter feed on campaign pages, so we can't see your names and lovely comments come in!
We're excited to gaze at them lovingly once it's fixed.
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We are SO CLOSE and you can take us over the finish line here:
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We'll be popping up at the Minnesota Avenue Farm Stand this Thursday to hear what information residents want and need. Hope to see you there!
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@washingtonian
You can donate and share with your friends, roommates, coworkers, neighbors...every bit helps!
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And if you have the ability to make a major gift through a donor advised fund or need to give to a 501c3, reach out, we're able to do this thanks to our fiscal sponsor
@tinynewsco
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