Dear WYDaily readers,
Ten years ago, compelled by local news sources that polarized important issues, played fast and loose with facts and allowed hurtful dialogues to take place without any accountability held by the authors, we started WYDaily.
From the beginning, our promise has been to steer clear of opinions, unreliable sources and speculation, and to give residents of the Williamsburg-Yorktown community the accurate information they need to make their own decisions, rather than leading them to agree with us.
We quickly learned that communities everywhere want news they can trust and, equally important, news that digs deeper to ask “why” rather than just reporting “what.”
It doesn’t stop there. The next step is to try to fully understand what it means to us as residents, taxpayers and stakeholders in this community we love.
From the remarkable number of readers we are so grateful to have, there has also come a resounding request for “more.”
More in-depth stories that help keep our older population safer when unscrupulous retirement centers don’t follow the rules.
More research into stories from our historic treasures, like Jamestown, so we can share with the world what, in many cases, first happened here.
More investigation to understand how the millions of visitors who travel to this historic place each year impact our lives, day-to-day habits and the local economy.
More stories discovered only by digging deeper, sometimes even in the snow, as in the story of a homeless man passing through the January blizzard in Army fatigues, an American flag draped over his shoulder, and a message to share.
And more stories about the astonishing people who call this place home and enrich us with both what they do now to better our community, and what they have done in other places to impact people all over the world.
After careful and thoughtful reflection on your feedback, we accept the mission to provide more, and we will be expanding our business news, investigative pieces and stories about the faces of this community.
In return, we are asking that you invest a little in us as well.
Shortly, we will be transitioning to a subscription basis for full access to all of our news stories.
We are asking for your investment of just 29 cents a day for a daily news source that is full of the energy of this community.
More importantly, we are hoping that our 10 years of dedication to transforming the news serving this community, along with our commitment to do even more, merits your support.
Invest just a little in us, and we promise to invest even more in you.
— Thomas G. Davis
