The journalism we produce at Seven Days wins awards. In 2020, we earned a number of them, including a national Edward R. Murrow prize for Investigative Reporting, an Innovation Award from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, and a commendation from the New England Newspaper & Press Association naming us a New England Newspaper of the Year. This year, we also saw a dramatic surge in the number of readers willing to pay us to produce this work — we listed more than 2,000 of them in last week's issue. We deeply appreciate their support. But the largest portion of Seven Days' revenue still comes from advertising; like every other media outlet in the state, we rely on support from advertisers to fund our reporting.