Precisely because faith in the independence and intentions of the modern American journalist is under new heights of scrutiny, I think we’re more important than ever. Though the attacks come on all sides, most of us report trusting local newsrooms more than national ones. Meanwhile, we’re coming to terms with the fact that it is local journalism that is even more in peril than the national version. Since it is rarer, there is lots of talk about ways to fund it.

For nearly four years, we have reported on the D.C. tech community, gathering an audience of technologists, entrepreneurs and their supporters. We do this work across the Mid-Atlantic, bringing perspective on how tech communities are blossoming across one of the densest, most economically important regions in the world. We want to do more.

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