Support Barnesville Area News Company
The Barnesville Area News website is free. Producing it isn’t.
Barnesville Area News exists because this community believes local news matters.
In our first year as a nonprofit, we set a fundraising goal of $25,000, which we reached thanks to the generosity of our readers, neighbors, and supporters. Those donations allowed us to cover village councils and school boards, report on local events and sports, and bring consistent, reliable local news back to Barnesville and the surrounding area.
To everyone who donated during our first year: thank you. You didn’t just support a website. You helped build something meaningful for this community.
This Is Our Community’s Newspaper
Barnesville Area News is not owned by a corporation or driven by outside interests. It exists because current and former residents care enough to support it. The majority of our donations come from regular people, many giving modest amounts, who believe their community deserves a local news source it can trust.
No donation is too small. Those small gifts add up, and together they make community-supported journalism possible.
This is our community’s newspaper. It only works when the community takes part in sustaining it. The only way it fails is if we let it fail.
Our Year 2 Goal: $45,000
For our second year, our fundraising goal is $45,000. Reaching this goal will help us:
- Maintain consistent coverage of local government and schools
- Expand coverage into surrounding communities
- Build stronger and more reliable sports coverage
- Cover the real costs of operating a responsible nonprofit news organization
Your support helps ensure that local stories continue to be told by people who live here and care about this place.
Behind every story is real work and real cost. On an average month, the core expenses required to operate Barnesville Area News total about $2,900, covering part-time reporting commitments, insurance, and necessary operating costs. In addition, the work of volunteers currently contributes more than $4,000 per month in donated labor. Looking ahead to our second year, adding consistent part-time sports coverage would increase monthly costs by approximately $1,200, bringing the average financial need to around $4,000 per month to sustain and grow coverage.
What Your Donation Helps Make Possible
Every contribution directly supports local reporting and the behind-the-scenes work required to keep Barnesville Area News running.
Here are a few examples of how different gifts help:
- $5: Helps cover the cost of website hosting
- $50: Helps support the reporting and writing of a local news story
- $125: Helps cover a village council or school board meeting
- $500: Helps support a month of part-time reporting and editing
Every dollar makes a difference, and every donation is part of keeping local news local.
Ways To Support Our Work
You can support Barnesville Area News with a one-time gift or a recurring contribution.
Online donations:
Donations can be made securely online using debit or credit cards through Buy Me a Coffee.
By mail:
Checks may be made payable to Barnesville Area News Company and mailed to:
Barnesville Area News Company
PO Box 266
Barnesville, OH 43713
Barnesville Area News is more than a website. It’s a record of what happens here, created by and for the people who live here and care about this community. Long after a meeting ends or a season wraps up, these stories remain. Supporting local news helps preserve the history of our towns, holds space for accountability, and ensures that this community continues to have a voice of its own.
This is our community’s newspaper, and it exists because people here believe it’s worth sustaining.
Barnesville Area News Company is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations are generally tax-deductible.