We are changing the way we deliver our work at voice.wales.
From this weekend, we will move to fortnightly editions, which will run from Friday through the weekend.
We believe moving to this model will enable us to focus on and deliver much more of our groundbreaking journalism.
We are in a time of crisis facing ordinary people, from poverty to climate breakdown.
But it’s also a time where there are opportunities, through movements, strikes, radical independence campaigns and so on for people to fight back. This is the situation we want to respond to.
By changing how we work, we’ll be better placed to listen to our readers and plan what we’re putting out, as well as focus more on what to commission from other writers.
We want to invest our time into speaking to people at the sharp-end of poverty, inequality, and injustice and hearing what they have to say. We’ll also be able to concentrate on original research and investigations.
We don’t shy away from the fact that we have an anti-capitalist outlook, focusing on stories that promote working class struggles in their entirety and expose a rotten system.
As a small team of journalists, we simply don’t have the resources to cover rolling news.
We’re not bankrolled by big media conglomerates or government funding – we get all of our funding from our Patrones which we are incredibly grateful for.
We have to focus on what the mainstream media outlets will never deliver.
This doesn’t mean we will be focussing solely on long form content; we will also have a strong focus on investigations and exclusive news stories which may be presented in short pieces.
We also won’t stop reporting on news outside of the editions, but that’s not primarily where our focus will be for now. We’ll use our social media to report more short and breaking news.
All of our content will continue to be free to read, but our Patreon subscribers will usually receive the entire edition on a Friday, just before the pieces are released over the weekend.
This gets the balance right in trying to create a sustainable model whilst not putting any of our work behind a paywall, something nobody wants.
In the first edition there will be: an investigation into sexual harassment rates at Cardiff University, gendered violence and mysoginy in the police and justice system, the true impact of undercover policing and the way the family of Mouayed Bashir are being failed by the housing and justice system.
If you want to get the whole first edition sent to your inbox straight away, and want to support what we do, you can subscribe here from just £3 per month.
But whatever you decide to do, we hope you enjoy our first edition.
