Finally, some good news. Josimar has survived for now. We reached our goal to raise at least 50,000 euro during June. We got more than 1,000 new subscribers in Norway, close to 500 new international subscribers and received more than 10,000 euro in donations.
Thank you all!
This means we can soldier on and continue digging into the dark corners of football and keep asking the inconvenient questions to the bleak powers of the beautiful game. We are living in a time when football is being hijacked by some of the darkest forces in society. Dear reader, rest assured that we have plenty in store for you in the coming weeks, months and – hopefully – years to come.
On that note: we need as many subscribers as we can get, so please share our articles with friends and fellow supporters and urge them to sign up for a subscription. It’s cheap! A monthly subscription costs less than a cup of coffee.
You can subscribe HERE. You can donate HERE.
As the gap between proper journalism and infotainment content deepens and widens, Josimar will never surrender our main target: Holding the powerful to account.
Online newspapers today look like morbid infotainment portals where traffic and clicks trump relevance. Most mainstream media cover football as entertainment. Several of the biggest broadcasters in the world are commercial partners of Fifa, and that organisation, from our point of view, is corrupt and toxic.
Josimar is not a daily newspaper trying to be first with so-called breaking news. We’re a journal. We have patience and a culture of carefully examining our articles before we publish our investigative work, and we always make sure we can document everything. We never stress to get an article done, we don’t operate with deadlines.
Josimar published its first issue in 2009 and we have survived this long thanks to our print subscribers in Norway. Genuine independence comes at a price. We do not have the support of a powerful publisher. Our articles on josimarfootball.com are free to access for all for the first 24 hours after publication, because we believe our work is of public interest. A number of very powerful people within football would be very happy to see us gone, so let’s try to avoid that.
The core principle of journalism is to be truth seekers. Too many journalists today are forced to chase clicks with articles that’s just a waste of everyone’s time. We have for several years challenged the biggest broadcasters and mainstream media about how they cover sport. They’re more like promoters with press credentials. Our main target has never been, and will never be, about page hits, but always about giving the public relevant information. We like to believe that this is honest work.
But we couldn’t do this work without you, who responded to our appeal when we needed you the most. You have enabled us to survive. Thank you for the many messages of encouragement we have received over the last few weeks. We may be a strange animal in the current media landscape, but what you have reminded us of over the last month is that, thanks to you, we’re not alone.
