A few days ago, we added a subscription model to our news product. Since then, new and returning readers have browsed www.sottvi.news, and free subscribers grew from twenty-four readers to seventy-four. Four annual subscribers were added, and readers have contributed $177.28 through Open Collective in the past nine months. Thank you!

We’ve ended our advertising product and replaced it with crowdfunding on Open Collective and subscriptions powered by Substack.

The team has also grown; we’ve added a co-editor to our writing team, and a product optimization consultant joined our product team. We’re building a hardier newsroom to tackle a changing information space, and we’re keen to build in a way that reinforces our commitment to ethical news.

We’ve been around since 2017, and our new journey starts here. We manage over a dozen social media handles with a We’re building a hardier newsroom to tackle a changing information space, and we’re keen to build in a way that reinforces our commitment to ethical news. Readers even find our news on Google Maps. 

Your contribution today would allow us to cover our corporate emails, grow our mailing list, improve our cybersecurity infrastructure, and offer our writers a living wage and benefits.

We’re a millennial-led online newspaper covering technology, culture, and politics in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Join us on this journey as we make news more accessible for curious readers!