On Black Friday, help us give away the news

Dear Reader,

I’m afraid The Conversation has no Black Friday deals to offer you today. We give away our articles every single day of the year. It’s a key element of our mission to democratize knowledge. No paywalls or advertisements get between readers and news that makes you think.

We’re reaching twice as many people as we were a year ago. It’s the media equivalent of hordes of shoppers lined up outside our doors. Our articles are being read in every state in the country, across our nation’s divides.

Your support lets us provide this journalism as a public service wherever people get their news: in a growing array of smartphone news apps; on major web portals like Yahoo! News and MSN; in struggling newspapers in towns like Macon, Georgia and Mankato, Minnesota; on websites targeting Gen-Z readers and Latinos and students and virtually every other demographic.

This valuable resource needs civic-minded individuals like you to help us bring it to the public. Our website costs hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to maintain and improve. The articles we publish require skilled editors with experience handling complex ideas who work long hours. They need to find the right researchers to write, and then help those experts make their writing accessible. 

This Black Friday, you can buy a gift for readers everywhere by supporting our work. Your gift of $5, $50 or even $150 helps us keep the lights on and helps us bring facts where they are needed.