My name is Matthew Berdyck. I’ve been a working, national journalist for over a decade. To be blunt, I’m fed up with my peers. 

This means I’m a whistleblower journalist. 

I’ve been more than willing to speak out about the consistent low quality of my own profession. I’ve been punished for this.

I can do better and I’m not afraid to stand up to anyone. I would like to start my own investigative journalism newspaper. 

I’m unique because I’m willing to cover large format, controversial subject matters, like the US EPA’s failing Superfund toxic waste clean up project, drug cartels invading America, coverage of corruption in Big Pharm (black box warnings put on Cipro, Anthrax vaccine killing soldiers), or even the story of a conservative community fighting for the environment.  

My experience in journalism spans the entire US. I’m a current fire and weather videographer for every major network in the country. I’m a source of military leaks for New York Times (leaks I could publish in my own newspaper). 

I’ve run a small town newspaper in the past. I run an environmental investigation firm called ToxicWasteSites.org

I’ve got the journalism and organizational management experience. My .org focuses on toxic ground water, fighting the redevelopment of still polluted toxic waste sites, educating the public about 150+ polluted military bases, investigating and exposing cancer clusters, and corruption surrounding the development of toxic waste sites. 

I’ve seen it with my own eyes. Journalists today just aren’t giving anyone the real facts. It’s all slanted. It’s all part of a narrative and of it’s an approved subject matter, it doesn’t get published at all.

I would like to have the opportunity to expose the stories they won’t tell, good stories, factual stories, real stories, powerful stories. 

I’m requesting help to get it started, simple help. I need a small office in a small town, a desk, a chair, newspaper association fees (this provides access to legal protection). I need a new laptop, camera, business registration fees, a little money to hire freelancers, web design, etc. 

I don’t care what your politics are. I was raised by a Democrat social worker and a Republican police officer (yeah imagine that dinner table discussion). I want facts. I want to give people facts. I want to show the world how valuable the insight is of a person who’s spent his life stuck stuck in the middle. 

In closing, I’ve never covered up a story in my life but I can show the world lots of stories that are currently being covered up because it doesn’t fit the aforementioned narrative. 

Please contribute to my journey. 

Thank you for your time.