On Being InDepthNH.org: Read, Share, Donate, Volunteer and It’s Yours

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Dear friends of InDepthNH.org,

It’s been almost three years since I started the New Hampshire Center for Public Interest Journalism and launched the daily nonprofit online news outlet InDepthNH.org. I thank you for your support. We can’t do it without you. And as the need for more unbiased, indepth, investigative and enterprise local news grows every day, we need you even more. Donate here, please.

Early on, InDepthNH.org reported that a law prohibiting nuclear waste burial in New Hampshire had been secretly repealed four years earlier. We then reported the failed  effort in the legislature to have it reinstated.

We reported 18 stories about a Nashua man ‘Therapy booths’ at the Secure Psychiatric Unit at state prison[/caption]

The Secure Psychiatric Unit has been an ongoing issue. The more InDepthNH.org has reported, the more the public has been outraged at discovering that people who are not charged with or convicted of a crime are locked up with convicted criminals who have mental illness at the Concord prison. We received a Andrew Butler of Hollis[/caption]

The most recent case of Richard Box photo: The 1301 fluorescent tubes are powered only by the electric fields generated by overhead powerlines. Richard Box, artist-in-residence at Bristol University’s physics department, got the idea for the installation after a chance conversation with a friend. ‘He was telling me he used to play with a fluorescent tube under the pylons by his house,’ says Box. ‘He said it lit up like a light sabre. More about the installation here. http://www.bris.ac.uk/changingperspectives/projects/field/[/caption]

We covered the hearings and reported original stories outside of the hearings, news that matters in New Hampshire. One was the story in which critics claimed the developer Eversource hired Sam Whitaker wrote The Gay Agenda.[/caption]

Most of our writers still work for free or for very little considering their talent and experience. Not only do we need to get to a point where we can pay everyone, we also need to grow. New Hampshire needs full-time, well-paid, experienced journalists and fundraisers to keep it happening.

To do this right, our budget would be $750,000 a year and we haven’t even raised a tiny fraction of that. But we won’t stop. I need to step up fundraising and will soon be announcing a new volunteer effort to raise money through grants, major donors, advertising and events. We have one volunteer and she needs your help. email nancywestnews@gmail.com

How you can help

Read InDepthNH.org every day: Bookmark your computer and phone. Get to know us and email story tips and ideas to nancywestnews@gmail.com

Share: Our readership doubles and quadruples when you share our stories to your friends on Facebook and Twitter, comment on them and ask your friends to follow InDepthNH.org

Donate: How much is it worth to you to help grow the future of journalism in NH? If you can, sign up for a one-time donation or become a sustainer.

Volunteer: We are putting together a team to raise money by selling ads and reaching out to foundations and major donors. Come along for the ride. We have a good time working for the good of great journalism.

InDepthNH.org is also seeking people to sell advertising on a commission basis.

It’s been a pleasure these past three years. Come on, you know you want to. Call me with ideas or email nancywestnews@gmail.com, 603-738-5635

Thanks again for reading InDepthNH.org, Nancy West, founder

 

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