We’ve got a rising neighborhood of Miami New Occasions members who assist our newsroom by giving any quantity, both by a one-time present or recurring membership. Due to this assist, we’re capable of proceed our mission of offering free journalism to Miami and surrounding communities. And we have now some updates to share.

In June, we welcomed Lily Black to the group as our membership supervisor to guide and construct out this initiative. Black oversees our readership income program for all of Voice Media Group’s publication web sites (Denver Westword, Dallas Observer, Miami New Occasions, New Occasions Broward-Palm Seaside, Phoenix New Occasions). She moved to Colorado from North Carolina in 2019 after graduating from the College of North Carolina Asheville with a level in music enterprise administration.

Black has years of expertise working in nonprofit fundraising and membership improvement, beforehand with Amp the Trigger and Swallow Hill Music. Her background in music-centered occasion administration overlaps together with her love for the humanities, tradition, and neighborhood engagement.

Be part of us for members-only editorial occasions

With Black’s assist, we’re completely satisfied to announce some updates to our program and advantages that will likely be coming your approach quickly, together with members-only editorial occasions, an ad-free web site expertise, membership merch, and alternatives for complimentary tickets to our signature occasions.

In early 2024, Miami New Occasions will launch the ebook Cocaine Cowboys, a group of our many years of investigative journalism on the crimes of Willy and Sal. To rejoice, we’re planning a presale ebook get together for our recurring members. Maintain a watch out for extra data to come back on this, in addition to extra members-only editorial occasions.

About Miami New Occasions’ membership program

From the day it was based in 1987, Miami New Occasions has been free to our readers. We stay devoted to offering our native journalism to everybody at no cost. How can we do it? We have at all times relied on advertisers to generate the revenues that make our lease and pay our workers. Most of these advertisers have been native mom-and-pops, and their assist meant we have been capable of give our newspapers away.

For a number of years now, media organizations massive and small have been hit by an ideal storm of monetary pressures. As readers shifted from print to on-line, promoting charges dropped. Tech giants started sucking up a lot of the remaining native promoting {dollars}. This shifting market has led us to fully rethink how we function.

We stay dedicated to conserving our journalism free and avoiding paywalls or necessary subscriptions. However the long-term challenges that organizations like ours face in producing promoting {dollars} aren’t going away.

We need to hold protecting South Florida the way in which it deserves to be lined. Which means remaining unbiased and avoiding paywalls — however nonetheless bringing in sufficient cash to fund our journalism.

We not too long ago despatched our members a survey asking why they offer. Listed here are a number of the responses:

• “I’ve at all times preferred unbiased journalism.  Miami New Occasions, like all ‘native rags,’ descends from the late Village Voice. We should assist unbiased, various journalism.”
• “Miami desperately wants extra native journalism.”

What’s your motive? I hope you’ll think about changing into a member and share any suggestions or causes for giving with Lily Black at [email protected].