Invitation To Join/Support Daily Trust Membership Club

The Media Trust Limited, publishers of Daily Trust titles, has launched a new product, Trust Plus, a digital platform that provides exclusive content for members on a subscription basis.

Though there is no paywall for access to the unique contents, the innovation is a deliberate attempt to connect journalists and journalism with the audience in a cyclical and interactive manner, enabling consumers of news or members of this community to contribute to what journalists do and for journalists to use their professional skills in producing relevant media contents for the community.

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This innovation is meant to alter the thinking that journalism is only an esoteric art that only people who are formally trained could engage in. It is meant to produce quality media content for the community, by the community, and with the community.

In an era of social media with the baggage of trust deficit, the Trust Plus Membership approach to news production and consumption is a paradigm shift from the traditional one-way news production. The project is ingrained in the principle that when members of the community are integrated into the news process, the final product shall be relevant, beneficial, and profitable to the community. This will also strengthen journalism which has suffered from the growing powers of despots, information chaos, mistrust, financial crisis, and lately COVID-19 pandemic.

Products

The membership project has four major products namely:

1. Special Reports and Investigative/Accountability Journalism: Periodic production of special reports and investigative journalism that hold power to acccount as well as those related to women and gender issues.
2. Youthville+ A bi-weekly publication targeting millennials and Gen-Z
3. Careerville: A bi-weekly publication targeting career people. Contents would include job, internship and training opportunities alongside articles that advance career development.
4. Campus Membership: A community of students across institutions of higher learning in and outside Nigeria, reporting for Daily Trust through a mentoring program; and coverage of Nigerian campuses.

Benefits

1. Connect: Members join our community of columnists, whistleblowers and professionals.
2. Access: Members get exclusive access to selected digital products (e-papers, member-only newsletter, podcasts, Youthville+, Careerville+)
3. Engage: Members meet our editors and reporters and be part of the journalism we do
4. Discount: Members get discounts when they buy from our stores
5. Opportunities: Members get exclusive access to our networking events, job and internship opportunities, training and competitions. Members will also benefit from our virtual training, knowledge sharing, expert sessions, and network building which will be held periodically.
   Subscribing or donating to Trust Plus digital news organization is not only about helping to generate revenue to keep us in business. It is also a way of becoming part of that platform. By joining and donating to the Trust Plus membership platform, members are demonstrating that they share the values of investigative and solutions journalism, career guidance for students, and a transparent approach to youth engagement in a society that is torn by social vices.
6. It is also about building a bond between the platform and its readers. Incidentally, this idea is in line with the age of online payment for services, a convenient system that has been facilitated by the growth in technology.
   Kindly support/donate
   Quality journalism costs money to produce, as it involves a lot of research, travel, hiring of skilled professionals, and acquisition of modern journalism equipment. Members of this community are required to contribute a minimum of N1,000 monthly to this project, as a strategy of crowdfunding to keep Trust Plus on stream.As this contribution is not a paywall, students and the unemployed are not required to make financial contributions to become members. To join the unique Trust Plus membership community, please click this link and follow through the process to register and make your financial contribution.
   If you do not want to join the club but simply want to donate to support our journalism, please use this link.

To join as a student, please fill this survey.

Our membership team is willing to answer other questions you may have.

Daily Trust Membership Team
Inquiries: [email protected]
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