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A field journal of underrecognized work
Reverie is a student-led nonprofit. We document founders, scientists, nonprofits, and communities through long-form reporting that travels to its subjects.
The Reverie Project, Inc. is a nonprofit in formation — we intend to apply for federal 501(c)(3) recognition. Our work is documentary.
We are concerned with humanitarian nonprofits, founders and operators outside the usual circuits, affordable housing, food systems, alternative energy, public-interest research, and the communities building meaningful solutions in places too easily overlooked. We are concerned, in short, with what is good and small and far.
The journal exists because attention is uneven. The way to lessen that unevenness is not to amplify louder voices, but to go listen to quieter ones, and to write down what we hear.
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We travel before we write.
Every Reverie piece is reported in person. A correspondent meets the subject, sits with them, asks questions a search engine cannot ask.
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Support does not determine coverage.
We accept gifts; we do not accept assignments. No subject, donor, or institution can purchase a story. Editorial independence is the only thing we will not negotiate.
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We are students, and we publish slowly.
Reverie is run by undergraduates. Slowness is not a limitation; it is the format. We would rather publish four careful stories a year than forty hurried ones.
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We will not call ourselves a platform.
Reverie is not a marketplace, a database, or a deal-flow service. We are a journal. We print sentences and pay correspondents.
Reverie is run by students at the beginning of long careers in writing, science, and public service.
Our masthead is small and changes with the academic year. We edit one another. Correspondents travel under modest stipends. Decisions on what to publish are made by the editors, not the subjects, the donors, or any external interest.
If you would like to meet us, write to editors@reverie.press. If you are an institution offering support without strings, so will we.
※ The Reverie Project, Inc. is a nonprofit in formation and intends to apply for federal 501(c)(3) recognition. Until that recognition is granted, contributions are not yet tax-deductible. Support does not determine coverage. Reverie maintains editorial independence.