We’re facing some major headwinds. Will you chip in $5?

When I co-founded The Intercept in 2014, we were part of a heady new generation of internet-based, digital-native news organizations. Print newspapers were rapidly going the way of the horse and buggy, and digital news was hailed as the future.

But in the last year, we’ve seen one online news outlet after another fall on hard times.

Social media giants like Facebook are deprioritizing news in their feeds. A growing number of Americans are avoiding the news entirely out of disgust and frustration. Meanwhile, costs are up, and donations to nonprofit organizations in the last year have seen the sharpest decline since the Great Recession.

All of this adds up to the most challenging environment for digital news that we’ve ever faced.

Now, I want to be clear that The Intercept remains foundationally strong, and I’m immensely proud of the groundbreaking journalism that our team is producing right now. But the reality is that we’re being affected by the same headwinds that have forced so many colleague news organizations to scale back or shut down.

So, as we push to meet our end-of-quarter fundraising goal by September 30, I’m making a personal request: Will you make a donation to ensure that we can continue to deepen and expand our coverage during these challenging times?

Thank you,