{"id":4897,"date":"2025-01-24T12:16:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T10:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4897"},"modified":"2025-01-24T12:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T10:16:42","slug":"this-week-on-labourstart-17-24-1-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4897","title":{"rendered":"This week on LabourStart &#8211; 17-24.1.25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Correspondents:<\/strong> We have a new form and it works. We signed up three new correspondents this week &#8212; from Georgia, Ireland and Spain. We also reached out again to our lists in South Africa and Ireland in an attempt to recruit more correspondents; other countries will follow now that we see the form is working.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> We added about <strong>720<\/strong> news stories in the last week, which is a signficantly higher number per day than we were experiencing earlier this month. The number of active correspondents this month is up by 10% compared to last month and we expect that to grow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Podcasting:<\/strong> We&#8217;ve lined up the first three podcasts for 2025, starting next week. Please suggest more names for people for us to interview &#8212; we want, if possible, to do one show every week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fundraising:<\/strong> In the last week, due to fundraising messages to our supporters, we raised <strong>\u00a32,021.88<\/strong>. We also received a pledge of <strong>\u00a32,809.22<\/strong> from a union in Canada. We also received a <strong>\u20ac400<\/strong> donation from a Danish union. So, a very good week for us. (But we also got our tax bill, which wipes out a lot of that gain.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next generation:<\/strong> We polled our former interns and will have our next online meeting next week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to this blog and get weekly updates from us. Fill in the box on the top right side of this page.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correspondents: We have a new form and it works. We signed up three new correspondents this week &#8212; from Georgia, Ireland and Spain. We also reached out again to our lists in South Africa and Ireland in an attempt to recruit more correspondents; other countries will follow now that we see the form is working. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,38,68,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4898,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions\/4898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}