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Dear Reader,
This is the time of year when we naturally look back on The Xylom stories that had the biggest impact — on readers, on our Asian American communities, and on our democracy — over the past 12 months. Here are a few highlights:
Our Editor-at-Large KC Cheng followed Kenya's Ogiek tribe to the courts to unpack how the tribe's been fighting a decade-long battle against internal and external greenwashing threats to maintain access to the Mau Forest.
Supported by a National Press Foundation Covering Rare Diseases Fellowship, Crystal Chow looked at how Western advances in treating Angleman Syndrome so far hasn't trickled down to patients in Hong Kong, and whether increased cross-border integration would provide a solution.
We published an exclusive excerpt of Ayurella Horn-Muller's new book which explored kudzu, "the vine that ate the South", as a metaphor for her upbringing as a second-generation Asian immigrants.
Aided by the Pulitzer Center, Samad Uthman and Samuel Ajala investigated how Chinese and British quarrying companies have been brazenly ignoring Nigerian quarrying regulations, damaging buildings inhabited by locals and generating dangerous amounts of hazardous air pollutants.
After a disastrous performance during the Atlanta Pride Parade, Publisher and Editor Alex Ip crunched the numbers to find that the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) reduced service on 80% of weekends last year, taking nearly 5,500 scheduled trains that would have served Downtown, Midtown, and the Hartsville-Jackson Atlanta International Airport out of service.
We were the first news outlet to reveal that the Maharashtra, India government's first-in-the-nation plan of sterilizing leopards to reduce human-wildlife conflict isn't as easy and effective as advertised.
It is our privilege to be able to do this vital work, but it cannot happen without support from people like you.
Here’s how you can help: We have about three weeks remaining in our NewsMatch campaign — and we could really use your support to secure much-needed funding for 2025. Although we hit our first match cap dedicated to supporting rural reporting, your contribution will still be doubly matched up to $1,000, which is a huge deal for a nonprofit newsroom like ours. That means that if you give us $20, we get $60!
We need your help to meet our goal of $15,000!
Will you join us?
By helping us take advantage of this high-impact fundraising opportunity, you enable us to create much more of our difference-making reporting. Thank you for believing in The Xylom.
With gratitude,
Alex Ip
Publisher and Editor,
The Xylom
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