Building a Daily Digital Magazine for North Carolina

In partnership with Journalism Funding Partners, The Assembly is launching a $3 million effort to fund twenty-two new reporter positions across North Carolina and transform the digital magazine from a weekly, scrappy start-up to a daily powerhouse that brings backroom debates to the frontpage.

Focused on deeply reported longform journalism exploring power in all its forms, The Assembly is a year-old digital magazine. We pay great reporters to spend weeks or even months on big stories, and then deliver that reporting to you with the nuance and complexity it deserves.

We believe this kind of journalism can be self-supporting. We’re a subscriber-supported outlet and we see our subscriber numbers rise each time we publish ambitious journalism.

But we need the community’s support to fund the reporters to do that reporting so that we have time to grow our revenue and become self-supporting.

In return, as we grow, we pledge to give the amount of money we raise here, via a revenue share, back to the larger journalism community in North Carolina over the years to come. We're grateful for the help and guidance of the North Carolina Local News Lab Fund at the North Carolina Community Foundation as we chart this new path.

Put differently: we’re asking you to give to The Assembly and allow us to build a new kind of state-level journalism. And then, we’ll pay it forward to the next set of builders, thinkers and doers who can tackle the next big challenge in journalism.

Because even when The Assembly succeeds at our core mission of deep reporting on big questions about power, there will still be plenty of other journalistic needs out there. And we want our success to help others succeed as well.

You can read more about the details and the vision at www.theassemblync.com/fundraise

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