What is a Sponsored Story? Well, it can mean a couple of things, the first is where readers like you help us provide throughly researched, culturally responsive stories and media to the communities we serve. Mostly in situations where we have to dedicate large chunks of staff time to public transparency projects such as “Meet the Candidates” or when we’re holding large companies accountable for their actions on our local people and environment.

The second version of a sponsored story put’s you in the local journalist’s drivers seat. If you want to see a story told about the hard work of a local nonprofit or community group, through this feature we offer you the opportunity to give us your information about the story in question and have us research, write and release an article on the desired topic. We like this option because we know we can’t cover everything, but with your help we can cover everything that matters.

In the event that we can’t cover a story, or the topic is outside our area of expertise, we will issue you a full refund within 7 days.