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Incredible Response to Tyee National

Four days into our fundraiser, you've pledged $18,000 for national news and analysis. Help us reach $20,000 today.

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On Monday we announced The Tyee's new drive to strengthen our national reporting.

If you help us raise $100,000, we can add an impressive cast of national voices to The Tyee's roster, and even start a Tyee reporting bureau in Ottawa.

Already you've responded with amazing support. By yesterday evening -- just three days into our three-week campaign -- 146 readers had pledged more than $18,000. If you keep supporting at this rate, we'll meet our $100,000 target on time.

Go here to contribute $5 or more to The Tyee's national reporting. Every dollar counts.

Maybe we're not crazy...

When we launched Monday, we admitted our goal is lofty. Perhaps even crazy. But your overwhelming support, both in pledges and on social media, is proof that Canadians are hungry for more diverse national voices.

Here's what folks have been saying on Twitter:

Will you join us? Make your contribution now.

Why go national?

If strong democracies thrive on fact-driven, independent journalism, Canada is not doing well. Only one per cent of Canadian media are independent. On the 2013 World Press Freedom Index, Canada dropped to 20th place. Funding cuts have squeezed the CBC, while political interference now threatens its independence. Private media aren't doing well either. Newsrooms are downsizing. Good reporters are being locked behind paywalls. Every newspaper seems to run the same wire stories.

In an era of media austerity, The Tyee is experimenting with an innovative new funding model that puts you -- the reader -- in the driver's seat. We think news is for the people, and we hope you'll help us prove it.

Join us now to build a reader-funded Tyee National.

We think The Tyee has a valuable West Coast perspective to contribute to the national conversation. Our drive to do more national reporting in no way lessens our commitment to in-depth coverage of B.C. news. Our roots are in B.C., and they will remain here. But as you know, federal issues are increasingly relevant to B.C. -- for example, the Northern Gateway pipeline and Idle No More.

We think The Tyee has something valuable to add to the national conversation. Two years before the next federal election, we hope you agree.

For more on The Tyee's decision to go national, listen to this interview with Tyee editor-in-chief David Beers on the CKNW radio show The Shift.

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