{"id":1941,"date":"2022-09-27T12:36:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T12:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/news\/news-news\/please-support-the-los-angeles-standard-newspaper-2\/"},"modified":"2022-09-27T12:36:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T12:36:59","slug":"please-support-the-los-angeles-standard-newspaper-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/news\/news-news\/please-support-the-los-angeles-standard-newspaper-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Please support the Los Angeles Standard Newspaper!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>The Los Angeles Newspaper can use your support!&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Click the link to support the LA Standard&#8217;s GoFundMe campaign.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-blackowned-los-angeles-standard-newspaper\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-blackowned-los-angeles-standard-newspaper\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-blackowned-los-angeles-standard-newspaper<\/a>. Donations can also be made through Cash App <a href=\"https:\/\/cash.app\/$LAStandard\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/cash.app\/$LAStandard<\/a>, Venmo <a href=\"https:\/\/venmo.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/venmo.com<\/a> @LA-Standard-Newspaper, and PayPal <a href=\"https:\/\/paypal.me\/lastandardnewspaper\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/paypal.me\/lastandardnewspaper<\/a> $20, $50, $100, $500, $1,000.&nbsp; Any amount would be greatly appreciated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K6EKbyaosZg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><strong>Video of Los Angeles Standard Newspaper Publisher\/Owner Jason Douglas Lewis and community members discussing the importance of the LA Standard Newspaper.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I launched this newspaper in 2016. I did not have any financing, so I&rsquo;ve kept this newspaper alive with my own funds plus advertising revenue. When I started this newspaper, I was doing a good 90% of the work myself. Four years later (37 editors printed), I&rsquo;m still doing 90% of the work. I write the bulk of the stories, take the bulk of the photographs, layout the newspaper, drive around to distribute the newspaper, and I handle all of the advertising. I also manage the website and social media pages. This newspaper is at the point that it needs to break out of the start-up phase. To do that, I need to hire people. I need to be able to pay a sales staff which would produce more revenue. With increased revenue, I can pay writers and photographers so that Im not producing so much of the content myself. The majority of the money that I&rsquo;m looking to raise will go to local hires. A business coach told me that small businesses with less than three employees (which is about 96% of Black-owned businesses) produce less than $60,000 a year. Small businesses with nine employees produce over $900,000 a year. With that type of revenue, the Los Angeles Standard Newspaper can thrive, grow, and better impact the communities that it serves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A portion of the revenue will also go to redesigning the Standard&rsquo;s website. I created it and manage it myself, and I had a very small budget when I launched it. It cost less than a couple hundred dollars to make back in 2016, but you get what you pay for. It&rsquo;s time that the LA Standard has a legitimate website, and that costs a well more than $200.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Any donation is welcomed. $25, $50, $100, $500, $1,000, or how ever much you are willing to donate to this newspaper. It will be greatly appreciated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Donations can also be made through Venmo, PayPal, and through the mail.&nbsp; Information below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1869\" src=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/support_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/support_2.jpg 900w, https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/support_2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/support_2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>The Los Angeles Newspaper can use your support!&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[169,170,93,1075,1847,168,484,167,161,1836,599,1758,218,134,133,156,157,75,135,163,166,162,1846,165,102,1848,1845,158,160,159,164],"class_list":["post-1941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-news","tag-african-american","tag-african-american-newspaper","tag-baldwin-hills","tag-black-business","tag-black-cause","tag-black-newspaper","tag-black-owned-business","tag-community-newspaper","tag-crenshaw","tag-crowdfunding","tag-donate","tag-gofundme","tag-inglewood","tag-jason-douglas-lewis","tag-jason-lewis","tag-ladera-heights","tag-leimert-park","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-standard-newspaper","tag-mid-city","tag-newspaper","tag-park-mesa-heights","tag-paypal","tag-photographer","tag-south-los-angeles","tag-support","tag-venmo","tag-view-park","tag-west-adams","tag-windsor-hills","tag-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}