Donate now to help us hire a full-time investigative journalist

This year Ricochet Media turns 10 — that’s a decade of fearless, award-winning journalism.

Goal:

$5000 in new monthly donors to pay the salary of a full-time investigative journalist.

We are still a small but mighty team dedicated to public-interest journalism that matters. Together, we’ve built something truly amazing. Now, we need your help to take our mission to the next level.

This kind of journalism requires time, dedication, and resources. It requires boots-on-the-ground, hours of research, meticulous editing, and the courage to ask the tough questions.

Over the course of 2023, Ricochet dove deep into coverage of Airbnb and other short-term rental platforms, and their impact on the housing crisis.

Imagine the impact of having someone dedicated solely to digging deep into Indigenous, climate, housing, labour and human rights issues. From exposing corruption and holding the powerful accountable to amplifying voices from the margins, this will be an investigative beat covering issues that directly impact you.

But we can't do it alone. We need your support to make this vision a reality. Your donation will not only fund the salary of our investigative journalist, but also provide the resources they need to pursue stories without fear.

Join us as a monthly member today. If you’re already a member, please consider increasing your monthly donation. (Inflation hits small non-profits like ours hard). 

Ricochet's Brandi Morin was arrested in January 2024 for covering the forced displacement of the unhoused.

Over the years, we’ve had many victories together. Our reporting has helped push critical Indigenous and undercovered stories into the mainstream, like Fairy Creek and Wet’suwet’en. Last summer’s investigative project #InvestigatingAirbnb partnered with Pivot Media and succeeded in pushing those in power to make meaningful policy moves — Including legislative change in two provinces and one city tied directly to our reporting.

We’ve also been leaders in fighting for press freedom. Ricochet helped lead a coalition of outlets and media orgs that took the RCMP to court over press freedom violations — and won.

Recently we’ve been collaborating with other independent outlets who share our goals and values. Our partners IndigiNews and the Real News Network in the U.S. make it possible for us to fund reporting trips to remote Indigenous communities led by journalist Brandi Morin. That work has won several awards, including the Canadian Hillman Prize for a short documentary on industrial pollution and its impact on Indigenous communities in Alberta.

Without your support, public interest investigative journalism could go extinct. Help us keep speaking truth to power.

Other ways to help

Follow us on all our channels. You may engage with us on Twitter, but be sure to follow us on other platforms as well. Check to make sure you subscribe to our newsletter, follow us on TikTok, LinkedIn, and importantly, subscribe to our YouTube channel. That’s where you’ll find all our original videos, explainers, and mini documentaries like the Hillman Award award-winning Killer Water, and other Indigenous stories like Apache Stronghold and Thacker Pass. We’re trying to reach 1000 subscribers on YouTube so we can start to monetize our videos.

Tell friends and family to check us out! Encourage them to subscribe to our newsletter. Help us spread the word about all the amazing work we’re doing.

Finally, your feedback is essential as we plan for the next decade. Please take a couple moments to fill out our reader survey here.

Goal

Join us to help us fund a new full-time investigative journalist. We need more investigative journalism in Canada.

That means if 250 people donate $25 per month we can create a new staff position for a journalist — someone to dig deep into corporate greed, corruption, and shine a light on undercovered issues.

Whether you can give $10, $15 or $25 a month, your contribution will make a big difference.

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Goal: 5,000.00
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