Beacon Notes
Rochester Beacon surpasses NewsMatch goal
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Individual donors contributed nearly $25,000 to the Beacon during NewsMatch, the nation’s largest grassroots fundraising effort in support of nonprofit news organizations.
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Individual donors contributed nearly $25,000 to the Beacon during NewsMatch, the nation’s largest grassroots fundraising effort in support of nonprofit news organizations.
Beacon readers and writers continue to be drawn to a wide range of topics, from public safety and health care to education and cultural polarization.
NewsMatch, the nation’s largest annual fundraising effort in support of nonprofit news organizations, runs through Dec. 31.
A digital news startup that faced long odds, the Beacon topped 1 million total pageviews this summer.
CGR principal and chief economist Kent Gardner, a cofounder and opinion editor of the Rochester Beacon, last week received the prestigious Frederick P. Gruenberg Award.
The campaign, which runs June 1-17, will raise funds with an aim to building a small core staff of full-time journalists, starting with a reporter.
The Rochester Beacon story on a Brighton elementary school’s decision to drop “Jingle Bells” from its music curriculum has sparked news coverage—and a torrent of online comments—around the nation and across the globe.
Individual donors gave more than $20,000 during NewsMatch, the nation’s largest grassroots fundraising effort in support of nonprofit news organizations.
Once again, this year showed that Beacon readers and writers alike are drawn to a wide range of topics.
NewsMatch, the nation’s largest grassroots annual fundraising effort in support of nonprofit news organizations, runs Nov. 1 through Dec. 31.