8 things we’re grateful for in 2021

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This year has given us so much to be grateful for.

Here are just a few:

1. The 801 Dallas residents who took the time to answer questions about how they perceive local media and how the media can better serve their communities.
    
2. The 567 neighbors in South Dallas and West Dallas
   who communicate with us via text, in both English and Spanish.
    
3. The three national awards we received for our local journalism efforts — for our coronavirus coverage, our text message service, and as new publisher of the year.
    
4. For our local media partners — our ongoing partnership with the Dallas Weekly (which was nominated for Collaboration of the Year), our food apartheid series with the Dallas Morning News, our digital divide coverage alongside KERA, and for the official launch of the Dallas Media Collaborative!
    
5. Our growing team — staff, freelancers, board members, interns and community engagement experts — who center South Dallas and West Dallas neighbors in their work. 
    
6. The foundations and donors who believe in our work and support our mission with their financial gifts.
    
7. The launch of our journalism pathway from Dallas high schools to Dallas newsrooms, and the invitation from Voice of Hope and L.G. Pinkston High School in West Dallas to work with their students.
    
8. Our South Dallas and West Dallas neighbors who share their stories with us, and trust us to report for and with them.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to our newsroom this past year. Whether you’ve given time and talent, input and feedback, or donations and support, YOU are what makes our work so strong and impactful.

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Thank you, and Happy Thanksgiving!

Executive director, Dallas Free Press