IT has been an implausible 4 years given The Nut Graph initial started publishing. And in which 4 years, we've had a integrate of near-death practice given we've not figured out a approach to be financially sustainable.
Since retrenching everybody as well as scaling behind publication from Sep 2010, we've managed to go upon edition upon a much-reduced scale. For a past dual years given Plan B, a association which owns The Nut Graph, Insight News Sdn Bhd, has a single after another to compensate a writers as well as editors a contributor's price with a superfluous supports you had left.
That income has given some-more or reduction run out. We go upon to earn a little income from a copyright of published material, including a 3 books Found in Malaysia Vol 1 as well as 2, as well as Understanding a Dewan Rakyat. But none of these sporadic payments have been in any approach sufficient to means a kind of edition you did in a initial dual years of a existence. Nor it is sufficient to keep us edition a approach you have given you launched Plan B.
Still, there is a little great news.
A new plan
Collectively, as a team, you had motionless which you would stop edition by a finish of August. My idea is which writers as well as editors need to be paid. And if you didn't have any some-more income for editorial expenses, then it wasn't satisfactory to ask people to go upon operative indefinitely for free.
The great headlines is usually after you done this decision,! a littl e readers motionless which The Nut Graph was too important to go comatose. Putting income where their mouths were, they have affianced to give us a little income to go upon edition during least for a subsequent twelve months.
So, thanks to these readers, we're not upon a genocide bed, as you had expected. Their grant is priceless in conditions of its value in ensuring which The Nut Graph can go upon to be a kind of vicious media which is needed in Malaysia. And given a grant is not as big in conditions of ringgit as well as sen than what you originally had from a progressing investors, you need to scale behind even more. Hence, The Nut Graph will usually be able, for a most part, to publish a single article each Monday morning, instead of a dual to 3 you have been you do over a past dual years.
All writers as well as editors have additionally agreed to go upon operative during much, most reduced fees in order to ensure The Nut Graph survives. Many of these writers as well as editors, in fact, were willing to work for free. Indeed, a current external columnists, Wong Chin Huat, KW Mak, Norhayati Kaprawi, Hwa Yue-Yi as well as Andrew Khoo have upon multiform occasions written for us for giveaway given you didn't have a supports to compensate them.
That, for me, says so most about a commitment of a little Malaysian journalists as well as writers towards eccentric as well as vicious media in Malaysia.
Our promise
At The Nut Graph, a promise to readers stays a same even if you have been usually edition a single story per! week. W e will go upon to have sense of politics as well as renouned culture, although renouned culture tends to take a behind chair to politics when a resources have been limited. We have been additionally committed to upholding a most appropriate ethical journalistic standards you can as per a editorial policy.
And you oath to go upon being vicious of a state of things in Malaysia as well as of ourselves as media.
In a subsequent few months, it's left to be seen if you will have a resources to cover a subsequent ubiquitous choosing a approach you did with Malaysia Votes, a precursor to The Nut Graph. As it stands now, you probably won't have a supports for it given covering an choosing is dear business. Plus, nearly all of us in The Nut Graph have been right away employed elsewhere in order to have a living.
Still, who knows what is possible? you didn't think you would last dual years after you retrenched everybody in 2010. Not usually did you do that, you have been starting to go upon for a while yet. Never say never, you reckon. And everything else, as a association motto goes, is about you do what you can with a resources you have. 
Jacqueline Ann Surin is grateful for all a people who have The Nut Graph possible. She is contemptible Malaysia will shortly no longer benefit from a vicious voice of Merdeka Review.
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