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We’re making massive strikes to carry you much more of the stable, completely reported journalism you rely upon the Sentinel to offer our neighborhood — bringing aboard Tucson journalism legend Jim Nintzel as our new Authorities & Political Impression reporter, rising our arts protection with Cultural Expression & Commuity Values reporter Bianca Morales and music correspondent Xavier Omar Otero, fostering a brand new era of journalists with our crack summer season fellows and different interns, and our total longtime core crew persevering with to dig deep into the desert dust for tales you simply will not discover anyplace else.
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Whereas company media in Tucson — managed by large out-of-state
companies that usually pull way more in earnings from our city than they
spend on reporting on it — have stored up a years-long sample of reducing
employees and dialing again on journalism, the Sentinel’s steadily increasing
our work. As a substitute of reducing, we’re reinvesting in native information with the assistance of our small enterprise supporters and members of the Watchdog Membership.
“With all of the cuts to native journalism by rapacious company overlords, nonprofit newsrooms just like the Sentinel are extra very important than ever. It is the way forward for actual reporting for our neighborhood,” Nintzel stated as he started working with us this previous week.
“There is a purpose we have seen such deep cuts in the entire for-profit newsrooms,” Nintzel stated. “Good journalism prices cash.
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Tucson Sentinel’s
impartial nonprofit newsroom learns from and informs Southern
Arizonans in regards to the neighborhood challenges and distinctive tradition of our
Borderlands.
Via watchdog reporting, native commentary and knowledgeable evaluation, the
Sentinel evokes residents to be meaningfully engaged with our
neighborhood, promotes transparency and understanding, seeks options
that empower, and holds the highly effective accountable.
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Journalism is a crucial public service in a democracy. Investigative reporting uncovers injustice, exposes corruption and holds officers accountable. Neighborhood reporting celebrates the distinctive nature of Tucson’s individuals, reflecting our sense of place by means of a realizing lens.
We goal to offer each: to level out the issues all of us love about Southern Arizona, and level to attainable options for what wants altering. We consider that simply as an unexamined life just isn’t price residing, an unexamined metropolis just isn’t price residing in.
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