Hello,

If you have supported The Reporters’ Collective by donating, sharing our work, or simply reading our stories, this is what your support has made possible. 

Over the past few months, donors like you have enabled us to pursue slow, challenging investigations that many newsrooms lack the appetite for. Our continued reporting on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process is one such example, requiring digging into electoral roll revisions, exposing administrative misleads, and showing their real consequences for citizens.

Investigations like these don’t run on good intent alone. They require boots on the ground, extensive data work, careful parsing of documents, rigorous editing, and most of all, months of digging. All this is made possible by donors like you who value truth and transparency.

To keep this work going, we’ve brought back the TRC Investigative Reporting Fellowship – and we’ve decided to extend the application deadline by 10 days, until 10 January 2026. We understand that journalists, too, need a break at the end of the year. The fellowship offers Rs. 100,000, editorial, and legal  support to one selected fellow to pursue deep, original investigative reporting.

If you’re a journalist with a strong pitch and some pre-reporting done, apply today. Or once you’re back to work in the new year.

Apply here: https://www.reporters-collective.in/trc-investigative-reporting-fellowship

And if you believe investigations like the SIR series and the fellowship itself should continue, please consider donating. Your support helps us fund fellowships, reporting costs, and accountability journalism that the mainstream media won’t touch.

Donate here: https://pages.razorpay.com/TRC-fellowship 

Thank you for standing with independent journalism that refuses to look away.

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Regards,
Mayank Aggarwal
Editor
The Reporters’ Collective