Kickstarter

Investigative reporting is gasping for air. Local news is struggling. South Brooklyn Post is a creative, independent news and culture magazine that hopes to revive both.

We've been able to accomplish a lot, gaining as many as 30,000 page views in a month, and digging deep into important local news stories, on a shoestring budget. Here's a link to a series of exclusive stories we did on a major source of local air pollution. Mayor Bloomberg took action after the stories ran: 
http://southbrooklynpost.com/news-views/carnival-wont-budge-on-electricity-bill/.

We broke some stories on the local public schools: http://southbrooklynpost.com/2011/05/ps29-wait-list-for-kinder-ps58-cuts-a-pre-k/, and http://southbrooklynpost.com/2011/03/ps-32-merge-with-brooklyn-prospect/; 

And our in-depth coverage of a local battle between rival Brooklyn Italian-American Catholic organizations shed light on the historic local culture that many newcomers never access: http://southbrooklynpost.com/news-views/italian-american-women/

We want to do more. But we need a little help!

South Brooklyn Post was founded by a journalist who wanted create a thoughtful Brooklyn community news site that is beautiful to look at and easy to navigate. Partnering with a photojournalist and web designer, South Brooklyn Post runs on the belief that readers recognize and want professional, responsible news coverage, and love to look at great photos.

With freelance writers and reviewers, South Brooklyn Post covers a specific geographic area with cultural listings, in-depth news reporting and features on the best in local arts, businesses and innovators.

South Brooklyn Post hopes to create a template for quality, independent, design-friendly professional news sites that can be employed in neighborhoods everywhere.

We've been able to accomplish much on a shoestring budget during our first year, including an exclusive shipping-pollution piece that had an impact and some breaking news on local schools. Now we'd like to do so much more. We'd like to cover more news, write more investigative pieces, and cover more of the wonderful people and businesses in our area; a service to our readers and to the business community.

If we are successful on Kickstarter, South Brooklyn Post will use the funds to launch an investigative piece on the big changes occurring in Brooklyn; namely, the boom in luxury development and the impact that's having on public schools and the traditional population.

We'll also use the funds to tell more video stories, because they're so fun to watch.

We'll be expanding our local advertising network as our long-term sustainability plan. But this "kick" will get us going. Thank you!