Your membership supports investigative reporting and our legal fees but also gives you more benefits.
Your one-time contribution will go directly to our defence fund. Everything, big or small, will help us fight this and we thank you for your support.
Investigative reporting is a long process...and one that can put our reporters in harm’s way when the story unveils questionable activity.
If you’re here, you’ve likely read or heard about our story The Man Who Stole a Hotel and are aware we are being sued for it.
What you may not know is that the reporter who wrote that story, Tori Marlan, spent six months on that story—investigating, writing, fact-checking, and everything in between that is required to bring a story like that to life.
And now we are being sued for it.
We are being sued because we did our jobs, and we did them well. The Man Who Stole a Hotel is our most read story. It was expensive to produce in time and fees for third parties, but it was worth every penny. With each view, our readers showed us it was important to them that we bring this under-reported information to light.
Tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees to defend our reporting, however, is more than we can swallow alone.
Over the course of two weeks, we will be fundraising for a legal defence fund to help us defend our reporting. If you valued the reporting we did—and want to help Tori get back to doing what she does best, sooner—we’re asking that you please contribute if you can.
Your membership supports investigative reporting and our legal fees but also gives you more benefits.
Your one-time contribution will go directly to our defence fund. Everything, big or small, will help us fight this and we thank you for your support.