Why we give away our journalism for free

Your gift makes it possible No images? [Click here]( [Your donation matched 2x to help us reach 2022 goal]( Dear Reader, The Conversation’s journalism is used in a pretty astounding range of newspapers and news websites. We’ve been republished by the media in every state in the country. Small papers like The Gleaner (Henderson, Kentucky), the Lafayette, Louisiana Daily Advertiser and the San Angelo (Texas) Standard-Times. Startup nonprofits like the Mississippi Free Press and Wausau (Wisconsin) Pilot & Review publish our stories. News aggregator sites and apps like Yahoo! News, Microsoft Start, Newsbreak and Smartnews do too. Media focused on the Black community, Hispanics, Muslims, LGBTQ people, rural audiences, science-lovers, investors, farmers, activists, maritime executives, gun owners, and many more, feature our work. We give all our journalism away for free under a Creative Commons license to maximize the reach of our work. A big part of my job is talking to editors about how they can use whatever articles they want from The Conversation and have quality, fact-based journalism for free. Editors are a skeptical bunch, and they listen, nod and then ask me, “What’s the catch?” My answer is brief and clear: “There is no catch.” This strategy has been amazingly successful. Last month, our articles were read nearly 14 million times – and 70% of that readership was on other news sites. While The Conversation’s mission is to bring the knowledge of experts to the public, our model of Creative Commons distribution has a great side benefit of strengthening other media outlets, by giving them quality, fact-based journalism. This has been part of The Conversation’s DNA since we started, and it is a key element of our success. Including all The Conversation’s global editions, we are the largest publisher of Creative Commons-licensed news in the world. While we give away our journalism for free, producing it is not free. We pay for a large editing team that works intensively with experts to help them write clearly and understandably. We pay for developers and cloud services to keep our own website up and running. We pay for accounting and shared office space and all the other unglamorous infrastructure of running even a very lean nonprofit. Your support makes it possible for us to give away this high-quality journalism. [Donate $50]( [Donate $100]( [Donate $365]( We’re wrapping up this fall fundraiser soon – and [when you give any amount today](, we’ll send you a downloadable e-book with seven of our most interesting stories of the year so far. I am not a natural salesman and am something of an introvert. But I go out and talk to editors about The Conversation because I believe deeply in the work we do; it’s vitally important in the battle against misinformation and disinformation. I hope you feel the same, and I thank you for partnering with us to support it. With gratitude, Joel Abrams Director of Outreach and Digital Strategy The Conversation How to donate: By credit card: [( By check: Mail to The Conversation U.S., 303 Wyman St., Suite 300, Waltham, MA 02451. With stock: Please write to priyanka@theconversation.com if you are considering a gift of stock or a gift from your IRA. The Conversation US, Inc. is a tax-exempt public charity under section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. All donations made are fully tax deductible, if you itemize. Our tax ID number is 46-0906774. [Donate to The Conversation]( [Share]( [Share]( [Forward]( You’re receiving this email as a previous donor or newsletter subscriber to The Conversation U.S. Clicking the Unsubscribe link will cancel your newsletter subscription. If you would like to not receive these emails, please [respond to this email](mailto:us-donations@theconversation.com) and ask us to take you off the list. You would, however, also miss our invites to donor events, impact reports and other exciting updates. The Conversation U.S. 303 Wyman Street, Suite 300 Waltham, MA 02451 USA [Unsubscribe](