Support Today
Your gift to the Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom supports local news in communities across Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia, and it makes it easier for more people to access that news.
Institutions & Individuals
The work of all our stations is 100% community supported. That means that your support makes an immediate difference today.
Working together with a small shared services team, seven partner public media stations, NPR, and a wide distribution network of newspapers and online news sources, our stories can reach upwards of 10 million people.
Because we work together, your gift goes further.
Interested in making a gift? Reach out to Development Director Kate Roselle at kroselle@lpm.org to discuss.
Corporate Sponsorship
Sponsor the work of the Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom and you reach highly engaged, local audiences across Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
Our curious listeners and readers follow us to learn something new, to become informed, to be inspired. Your message becomes a recommendation from a trusted voice.
Let us customize a sponsorship package for you.
See ideas for sponsorship below and contact Development Director Kate Roselle, kroselle@lpm.org to talk more.
Sponsor a Story Series
Reporters from across the Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom regularly create series that capture multiple perspectives and go deeper on local and national issues.
Your sponsorship includes:
- Inclusion on the webpage of each story published in the series.
- Inclusion on a collective landing page for the series where audiences are directed each week after the series airs.
- Inclusion in one Porch Light newsletter.
- Social media posts across the Porch Light social media channels.
Check out the Signal Species story series
Sponsor the Porch Light e-news
The Porch Light e-newsletter is a weekly e-newsletter that reaches audiences across the region. With a tone that’s neighborly, warm, and inviting the Porch Light brings the important news and culture to your inbox once a week.
What you get:
Access to 10,000+ highly engaged subscribers in Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
22.7% average open rate
2.2% click rate
Nearly 1 in 10 readers who open the Porch Light newsletter take action.
<1% unsubscribe rate