Dear reader,

We need your help.

Coronavirus has brought unanticipated and significant challenges to our families and our South Florida communities. How we respond to and navigate through this pandemic is the biggest story of our lives.

At the Miami Herald we feel a responsibility to ensure we share the full picture with you. Our team published more than 1,700 stories in March and April, plus uncounted videos, Q&As, newsletters and voice updates. Much of this reporting goes beyond breaking news and reflects the enterprising journalism we have consistently produced, going back 117 years. We dive deep in our reporting, delivering answers to questions both asked and anticipated. This is the kind of work that rarely appears in other local media.

We are grateful we can be here for you.

And like you, we are stressed. About our health and our ability to do our work. The pandemic has brought layoffs, furloughs and salary reductions to newsrooms large and small, including the SunSentinel, Miami New Times, and the Palm Beach Post. We’re fighting like mad to hold the line, like many local businesses, and so far we’ve done so thanks to your readership and support via digital and print subscriptions.

But it’s a steep hill, and we’re thinking creatively about how to climb it.

If you see value in what we’re doing every day, and if you can support us, please help us bridge this gap.

Your tax-deductible gift can ensure we continue to report on the coronavirus and all of its impacts across our diverse communities. We aim to raise $350,000 to keep our reporters digging for information on your behalf, our visual journalists capturing the images and our editors fine-tuning the work to deliver essential news and information to you.

If we are so fortunate as to raise more, we will look forward to adding to our Miami Herald coronavirus reporting team.

With help from the Local Media Foundation, your gift goes directly to ensuring sustainability for the Herald and continued accountability reporting as we navigate this critical time. Not to the bottom line, but directly to the newsroom.

The Miami Herald - COVID-19 Local News Fund is a program administered by Local Media Foundation, tax ID #36‐4427750, a Section 501(c)(3) charitable trust affiliated with Local Media Association. LMF is raising funds for educational activities; specifically, to educate the public on COVID-19 issues. LMF is providing funds to this news organization and many others to support this important educational project. All money raised by this effort will go directly to support COVID-19 reporting, to make sure the public has essential facts on this important topic.

The Miami Herald Coronavirus Reporting Fund - COVID-19 Local News Fund

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The Miami Herald Coronavirus Reporting Fund - COVID-19 Local News Fund

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