Supporting Local News

As we explained in a recent editorial, paying salaries and benefits just for the reporters and editors who cover local news adds up to at least $250,000 a year. That doesn't include production, rent, printing, distribution, sales etc.

That's why we've started a special "Fund for Local Reporting." We're asking individual readers to contribute whatever amount they can afford. This fund will be used only to pay the direct cost of news reporting.

You have four ways to make a financial contribution:

1) Snail mail: cash, check or money order to:
            Fund for Local Reporting
            Berkeley Daily Planet
            3023A Shattuck Avenue
            Berkeley, CA, 94705

2) Phone: Call Terrence Nixon at 510-841-5600, ext. 117, and he'll take your credit card information.

3) Email: send a letter of authorization to tnixon@berkeleydailyplanet.com. You can include your credit card number, or ask Terrence to call you to take it over the phone.

4) Online (the easiest way):

Because reporting the news is expensive, I'd like to contribute to

 

The Berkeley Daily Planet's

Fund for Local Reporting

Give $240 to The Fund for Local Reporting.

Give $120 to The Fund for Local Reporting.

Give $60 to The Fund for Local Reporting.

Give an amount of your own choosing to The Fund for Local Reporting.