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Subscriber invitation · Issue 184 · Madrid · Lagos
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Three tiers, one publication, no paywalls on the news.
Multiculturas does not run advertising against the cultures we cover. We do not license our archive to data brokers. We do not syndicate to platforms that strip our reporters' bylines. Instead, the publication is paid for by the people who read it — a slow, deliberate model that has carried this newsroom since 2009, when Camila Ortiz-Reina and Daniel Okafor founded it in Madrid with a single mimeographed broadsheet and a borrowed fax line.
A subscription, at any tier, underwrites the work that is hardest to fund by other means: a Lagos correspondent's flight to interview descendants of the Candomblé diaspora in Salvador da Bahia; a six-month translation cycle that puts a Quechua-language essay into English, French, and Arabic the same week it is filed; the Multiculturas Academy, where 28,000 students in 120 countries study the same long-form piece a senior editor is reviewing that morning. None of that is free to produce. All of it is paid for, line by line, by readers like you.
We chose three tiers instead of one flat fee because the people who read Multiculturas are not one kind of reader. A high-school teacher in Bogotá needs different access than an embassy cultural attaché in Brussels. The three tiers below are written with those readers in mind — and the first one, the weekly newsletter, is and always will be free.
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- The free articles are the public-facing work — selected reporting from the archive, plus a handful of new pieces each month. The Thursday newsletter is the editor's hand-curated cut: which piece we think matters most this week, which photograph the photo desk is studying, which essay the translators have just finished. It is the way the editor actually reads the publication.
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