Our Main Coordinator is Going Mostly Off the Grid for the Summer
Fear not, though, your subscriptions are helping us pay student reporters to coordinate our social media. A recap of our recent reporting plus bonus content.
Thanks to your Substack donations, we will be able to pay several student reporters to handle our social media over the next few weeks, while our main coordinator will be mostly off the grid during the summer on a different continent, starting tomorrow, after leading this initiative for 10 years now, starting with our Facebook, then a documentary film called Invisible Girl about a young woman who went to UNR while unhoused and later helped set up the Eddy House, the ourtownreno website, other documentaries including the recent Seasons of Growth, a podcast, the BiggestLittleStreets Instagram, a Twitter turned X, a TikTok, a subreddit, a Threads and a BlueSky.
If you feel so inclined, or have felt this has brought you needed insights, intellectual value or help, extra donations can always be made through the ourtownreno venmo as one organizer of comedy shows which we helped promote recently very kindly did. We also have a tax-deductible way of donating here: https://www.mightycause.com/story/Ourtownreno
You can also become a subscriber on our Facebook or BiggestLittleStreets Instagram for a very low monthly payment, less than the cost of one cup of coffee.
Our student reporters will be monitoring messages, posting your videos, photos and alerts and producing new hyperlocal content, while our coordinator will occasionally dip in to messages on different accounts, whenever possible in a different time zone while recharging in faraway mountains. Please indicate if you’d like credit or anonymity when sharing your alerts and content.
You can also always email via https://www.ourtownreno.com/contact or on this email usnico@gmail.com if you’d like us to reshare a gofundme or promote a local business or event. For this, we ask that you add a personal message, why you love Reno, what makes your business / event unique, photos which include related people in them (not just a flyer) and all necessary details (time, place, location) which we can cut and paste for our captions.
We will be pausing articles on the website and this Substack during the summer, but will restart our usual output in August. For any whisteblowing and investigations we should look into, it’s the same point of contacts, either www.ourtownreno.com/contact or usnico@gmail.com.
For this we can of course provide full anonymity, but it’s always useful to include official documents you might have, such as police reports and court notices, as well as screenshots and photos.
Thank you for all your support of this multimedia collective initiative as it marks ten years, and moves along providing hyperlocal northern Nevada based solidarity crowd sourced journalism.
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