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Orange County can’t afford to lose public service journalism like ours — reporting that delivers facts instead of fear, that speaks truth to power, that helps you protect your quality of life.
“On World Press Freedom Day and every day, we encourage you to find a local news organization you trust and support it,” says a New York Times initiative.
Voice of OC was started a decade ago on the simple idea (that some called crazy) to protect the community’s quality of life through solid reporting on local government. And now we have more than 1,000 individual donors who have stepped up to support our mission. Other news sites focus on delivering audiences to advertisers. Whereas our simple nonprofit model lets us focus on why we all got into journalism: to focus on reporting nonpartisan truth-seeking stories that ultimately lead to stronger communities. Please join us today.
Report for America will place 225 journalists in more than 160 local news organizations in the United States this year.
Voice of OC’s news investigations, columns, photography and design once again have earned top praise in the state’s top annual journalism competition.
Tim Stoaks says his first order of business is to grow Voice of OC’s Ambassadors Program of donors who contribute annually $1,000 or more to sustain Voice of OC. This ongoing support is critical to Voice’s ability to add more reporters and more coverage.
We do this without a paywall, ever. We are non-profit, and non-partisan. Our reporting is geared to the working person who needs insight on how local government and social services are responding to the crisis – without sugarcoating or condescension.
Voice of OC Senior Reporter Nick Gerda was recently an invited speaker on the subject of news around homelessness.
Voice of OC Senior Reporter Nick Gerda will be a featured guest again on the KPCC Take Two program, today discussing insights into the Orange County primary election.