MWM – nine years and counting on your support for independent journalism

Now we are in our 10th year Michael West Media And he wants to thank the society for supporting independent journalism. Without you, this could not be.

This Missive is to summarize our good intentions, our business model and our plans for the future and to ask for your help in this journey. Together, we can enlarge this thing, wrap Australia’s media scene and maintain the pressure on power institutions – this is for a better future for all of us.

Rarely, we believe that there is a strong public interest case to create independent media. First things first. MWM We paid dozens of journalists for their work and we have put five young journalists through our (AD HOC) student program and provided work experience to others.

Two of these young journalists are Stephanie Tran and Josh Barnett. Steph returned to journalism from the law and came out of the Josh music industry and directed the Youtube and Instagram side. We must engage them full -time. This will make a big difference alone MWM output.

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Unlike other media, we teach young journalists how to read balance sheets, make an institutional search and follow the money. We have progressive tendency, but we do not have political or institutional support or agenda. We believe in evidence -based journalism. But there is a cost. We are pleased to look at individual sponsorships or even overthrown to their hands or even corporate solutions (without editorial control).

This website, which is about 750K in the audience per month, produces traffic through Youtube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Tiktok and X – all platforms. We can significantly expand it by offering higher quality content. An important capital injection and a few of the best journalists in Australia would take us to millions a month and transform the country’s media. This is an option.

In the meantime, we need support to pay our team properly for their work – this is the legend of foi and Old Senator Rex Patrick– Finance Guru Michael PascoeOur Free team Harry Chemay, Wendy Bacon, Zach Szumer, Yaakov Ahaaron, Andrew Gardiner, Michael Sinsbury And many other contributions.

Then there Kim Wingerei, MWMWeb and our business and our own publisher and Jack-of All-Traces (pure necessity-these workers are cheap).

Before reaching the business model and paths for growth, let’s take the basic questions: “Why should we support you? Do you deserve this? What will it succeed?”

A registration record you can support

This month was nine years ago, as yours is really a refugee from corporate media, we published our first story, the Treasure Islands Oligovers. Since then, it has been more than five,000, most of them shaped the course of politics and business in this country. Multinational companies now pay more taxes. We broke the stories globally because these quotations WALL ST MAGAZINE And FT to show.

The judicial study by our journalists bends the billionaire gap and has been effective to reveal and shake privatizations such as the sale of public assets, including the visa processing system and the corporate regulator. The financing of readers saved billions of dollars from Australia from being a funnel in the open sea through multinational tax avoidance.

We have been in front of the game in the problem of so many public interests of the unsuccessful housing policy of the failed housing policy of the four -large advisors of political donations and lobbying, great sugar, money laundering and Pokies, Qantas, Israeli lobby, Nacc, AUKUS, defense supplies.

We can’t always do 100% right, who does it? We welcome the criticism, but we begin to produce an agenda without agenda and fearless journalism.

And over the years we lost some skin financially, when the current government came to power (we are not here to write press releases for a tribe or another tribe) and the Israeli supporters on October 7, 2023 because of our scope of Gaza.

Our Business Model

In your heart, our business model is quite simple. We produce and assign the public interest and them MWM Website. Then we distribute this content through social media publications on all platforms. The audience growth and detainee year year. Facebook was the biggest traffic generator in the past, but there are censorship problems (and elsewhere).

Youtube has achieved the greatest growth for the last few years. X hasn’t gone anywhere since Elon Musk took over (‘Algo’ does not prefer other publishers). All of this is candle and decrease, but we are determined to be agile, and by hitting it, as the media turns further, things can become more variable.

Software, infrastructure and online security costs are increasing; Every month we see tens of thousands of hacking attempts. However, most of the costs are to pay for people for their jobs. Australia’s brutal insult laws and the failure of the regulation of the legal system are great issues for us. In the last five years, we have endured two annoying cases that have been emptied in terms of cost and money.

The company has never paid or apologized for a legal solution, but it is threatened by lawyers who deceived ambulance regularly for nine years. We would like to thank the supporters who came to save especially when we had to pay for defense lawyers.

Corporate and community options for growth

With the current financing level, fighting lawyers, commissioning and paying for content, and regulating and producing this content, we have resources that will only follow a handful of clues and offer 5-10 times a week.

We pay AAP for AAP, because AAP, frustrated, agenda, independent news reporting operation. This is a service we offer for readers above our own offer.

We do not carry ads (except for 200K to 300 thousand masses per month). We had to expand to visual media because some people like to read, some like to watch or listen. Production costs are important, but we do not have a lot of resources to interviews enough in the investigations, which are spent, commissioning and just shaking content.

We also plan to renew our Podcast offers using AI to keep the costs low, but it’s still not cheap.

We don’t have a special editor, so time is our most valuable property.

What’s next?

However, growth opportunities were in danger in the midst of the ongoing difficulties faced by the old media, which looks at the political and institutional bosses more.

One way to grow is to obtain significant more community support in addition to approximately 4,000 supporters currently financing the operation. We can do this slowly, but we cannot do it without much further support in the community with a chicken and egg condition, because it will require much more content.

Therefore, we plan to explore corporate options. We have the registry and therefore it is well placed to lead the transformation of the media market. For example, if we were going to hire the five best journalists in the country, our traffic would have risen to millions of people a month.

This is because the best journalists are mostly their own distribution channels and readers. If they will operate in an environment without corporate or political agenda, MWM So, the audience would not grow even more.

Collectively, this traffic will force large business and media institutions to participate. Increased traffic on the website will surely make it a displayed target. The transformation of the Australian media into public interest is not required. We also need some funds to pay for an editor and production personnel.

We are not hectic about names, brands or growth for the sake of growth. Eye ball, quality, fearless and independent coverage should remain.

Whatever the result of this step, we hope to continue growing. And we thank those who helped us go so far. Next and up!

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Michael West was established Michael West Media To focus on high public interest journalism in 2016, especially the increasing power of companies on democracy. West was previously a columnist for News Corp, and even once a stockbroker and a journalist and editor.