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Labor half way to funding its new ‘Crikey-style’ news service

LaborThe Australian Labor Party says it now has 226 paying subscribers to its  daily online service and says it is about half way to reaching its fundraising goal.

Last week the political party announced it would launch a paid news service as the party’s “own Crikey” to stop their views being “filtered through the mainstream media”.

The announcement saw much derision on social media with national secretary in a letter to members writing: “Did you see how the conservatives on Twitter jumped up and down when they heard we were fundraising for an editor for our new online Labor Herald?

“Apparently they weren’t fans of the idea, but a bit of Twitter hyperactivity won’t stop us. We’ve got 226 new founding subscribers and we’re more than half way to our fundraising goal of $95,000 for the position of editor.”

The ALP is seeking $22.60 per subscriber a month to fund the news service which will have one editor and a budget of $95,000 a year.

In his latest email to staff Wright again pitched for subscribers writing: “You’ve already told us loud and clear that you want more factual information about what Tony Abbott and his Government are doing. The Labor Herald will play that role, but we need a content editor to make it all happen.

“An editor who will write useful, interesting articles for the site and pull together interesting content, including your own articles and comments.”

Nic Christensen 

Wright’s full email:

Friend,

Did you see how the conservatives on Twitter jumped up and down when they heard we were fundraising for an editor for our new online Labor Herald? 

Apparently they weren’t fans of the idea, but a bit of Twitter hyperactivity won’t stop us. We’ve got 226 new founding subscribers and we’re more than half way to our fundraising goal of $95,000 for the position of editor. 

Can you join our 226 new founding subscribers and help get our online news service up and running?

You’ve already told us loud and clear that you want more factual information about what Tony Abbott and his Government are doing. The Labor Herald will play that role, but we need a content editor to make it all happen. An editor who will write useful, interesting articles for the site and pull together interesting content, including your own articles and comments. 

We only need 124 more people chipping in $22.60 a month to get the online Labor Herald off the ground. Click here and say you’ll be one of our foundation subscribers and help make history.

And if you say you want to join the other 226 foundation subscribers, we’ll keep you up-to-date with progress on getting the project started and when the service starts you’ll get daily news bulletins. 

I believe it’s really important that we do this. We need our own news and we need a place where we can hear each other’s views.

You and I can make that happen.

Thanks, 

George Wright

National Secretary

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