Support the Sun Sentinel’s local and investigative journalism
As the editor in chief of the South Florida Sun Sentinel for the past four years, I have focused our newsroom on the most vital responsibility of a free press: Holding the powerful accountable to the people they govern.
A local free press is essential to a healthy democracy. It’s as true now as 230 years ago when the First Amendment was ratified.
Currently, our investigations team is shining a spotlight on the sex trafficking of girls in South Florida. The series, Innocence Sold, reveals holes in the supposed child safety net that has allowed vulnerable girls to be exploited, disappear and sometimes die.
Another investigation found thousands of calls going unanswered to Broward County’s regional 911 system, sometimes leading to tragic results. Reporters found a system that was dangerously understaffed and overwhelmed, with leaders blaming each other over who should be in charge. County leaders responded by raising call-takers’ pay. Problems persist, however, and the Sun Sentinel continues to report on them.
These stories — and others like them — take hundreds of hours of digging and thousands of dollars to report.
We know there are more out there waiting to be reported, but we can use your help.
How? You can make a tax-deductible contribution to the Community News Fund to support our investigative reporting and other vital local journalism. Go to sunsentinel.com/donate or send a check to Florida Press Foundation, 1025 Greenwood Blvd., Suite 191, Lake Mary, FL, 32746 and note it is for the Sun Sentinel.
The Florida Press Foundation set up the Fund in 2020 to help the Sun Sentinel and other newspapers expand their journalism. If you have given to the Fund in the past, thank you. We hope you and others will consider providing us a boost for 2023.
Best regards,
Julie Anderson
