Talk back: 2019 TucsonSentinel.com reader survey

Valued readers like you are at the heart of everything TucsonSentinel.com has published, and today we want to hear from you.

Below are our some of our most important recent stories. Choose the one that left the biggest mark on you. Your input allows us to cover Tucson politics, public policy and border and immigration issues with your perspective and needs in mind — and your feedback might even spark a couple of unexpected story ideas.

Here's a sampling of the sort of exclusive and in-depth reporting you'll only find on TucsonSentinel.com. Let us know which of these stories moved you the most, made you think more deeply about our community, and told you something you hadn't learned anywhere else.

Since our founding 10 years ago, you've come to rely on the reporting of TucsonSentinel.com. A lot of Southern Arizonans have. No one covers local politics, public policy and border and immigration issues with the same skill, integrity and understanding as we do.

Local nonprofit independent media outlets like ours face significant challenges. We frankly struggle with resources and could certainly use another couple (or five!) capable reporters digging into what goes on in this town. Tucson needs that.

It takes a lot of energy and scrappiness to uphold the high quality of our reporting.

And it takes money. Our staff are talented professionals, some with decades of experience in investigative and community journalism. And maintaining our computers, website, cameras, replacing worn-out shoe leather and putting gas in trucks for trips through the desert adds to our costs.

To make things work, we rely on donations from readers like you. That's why TucsonSentinel.com needs your help with a tremendous opportunity.

Your gift — doubled!

We're excited to again be part of a vital matching gift opportunity from NewsMatch, a prestigious national campaign to encourage grassroots support for nonprofit news organizations like ours. Until the end of the year, NewsMatch will match — dollar-for-dollar — each donation we receive, up to $1,000 per individual donor.

Will you please give today to invest in the news that you and your neighbors need?

This is an incredible opportunity for us and for you, as one of our loyal readers. With NewsMatch, we could receive as much as $40,000 or more in additional funding to close out the year. That would be an enormous boost for us as a bootstrapped nonprofit.

Subscribe and stretch your donation over time:

$10/mo. Cub Reporter
$15/mo. Printer's Devil
$20/mo. Stringer
$40/mo. Correspondent
$50/mo. Senior Correspondent
Enter your own monthly amount (number only)

Or give a secure one-time gift with PayPal or your credit card:

$5,000 Newshound
$2,500 Trusted Source
$1,000 Copy Desk Chief
$500 Correspondent
$250 Stringer
$100 Printer's Devil
$50 Cub reporter
$25 Informed Source
$10 Dear Reader
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A smarter Tucson is a better Tucson

Keeping Tucson well informed is an important factor in the overall well-being of our community.

The Sentinel's accountability journalism and celebration of Tucson's unique culture has gained respect not just locally, but across the country — that's why we're among the leaders in the growing movement to rebuild local journalism from the ground up (I'm one of the founders of Local Independent Online News Publishers, a national educational nonprofit). It's also why TucsonSentinel.com is among the participants picked for the special opportunity offered by NewsMatch.

Tax-deductible, too

Because TucsonSentinel.com is a nonprofit news organization, any donation you make between now and December 31 not only gets doubled by NewsMatch, but it's also fully tax-deductible. So won't you make a donation today and have it matched, dollar-for-dollar?

This important initiative to strengthen selected nonprofit newsrooms is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Democracy Fund. This is a great opportunity to help us produce more of the strong accountability journalism you have come to expect from TucsonSentinel.com.