A call for help

Dear friends and supporters,

We’ll be frank with you. We need your help. We hate asking for money, but we are running out of funding.

Since beginning fundraising in fall of 2024, we have raised about $2,500 — total. That’s almost entirely from small dollar donations.

After our February expenses, such as paying freelancers for The Word, we will be down to less than $200 in the bank.

Equal Access Public Media and all we’ve built — The Word, the EAPM Style and Accessibility Guide, journalism-specific accessibility training, free accessibility discussions — will come to an end without immediate help.

We have applied for grants, and we eagerly await the results of those grants.

We are reaching out to accessibility-minded businesses to become corporate sponsors.

But we need your help today. Can you rush a $10 donation to Equal Access Public Media right now?

Thank you for your continued support.

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EAPM partners with Local News Day

Equal Access Public Media has signed on to be a national partner of Local News Day.

Local News Day will take place April 9 across the U.S. to promote communities reconnecting with their local news outlets.

EAPM believes that one of the major ways people can better connect with their local news outlets is for news to be more accessible. We are here to support all local news outlets involved in Local News Day in being more accessible to reach more disabled members in their communities.

We are proud to be a national partner for Local News Day — and the only national journalism organization focused on accessibility. As our chief of editorial Stacy Kess loves to say, “All news is local.” And that means making news accessible is a local issue. too.

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The Word goes monthly

The Word, the EAPM magazine covering journalism and accessibility, moved to a monthly format Thursday.

We decided to go a little “old school” in a time where most other publications are rushing to get news out immediately.

This seems counterintuitive in a landscape where we’re all competing for news audience attention.

But that’s exactly it.
• The Word covers journalism and accessibility.
• Journalists are busy.
• A monthly magazine gives our audience time to sit down and consume the news in a more relaxed way.

Since Thursday we’ve seen hundreds of visitors — not just for this month’s articles, but also viewing previous months articles. We love it, and we hope people come back all month, sit down, relax, and enjoy the read.

The Word will continue to publish the first Thursday of every month — as long as there is funding

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