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# A little survey to help the future of indie journalism
- URL: https://www.onthetrail.info/latest/a-little-survey-to-help-the-future-of-indie-journalism/
- Published: 2026-08-22T16:19:39.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-22T16:19:39.000Z
- Description: If you wouldn’t mind filling it out, I’m reading 100% of responses and taking them very seriously— even if you just signed up today.
- Author: Isaac Peltz
- Tags: News & More

Good morning! We have a lot of new subscribers here today, which is fantastic. I wanted to ask again if you would all be able to help out with filling out our little survey on the future of On the Trail. We’ve had some really useful responses so far.

For example, of the respondents, 88 percent said that they want more Historical contextualization pieces (and you don’t know how happy that makes me. Those are easily my favourite pieces.) and another 84 percent want analysis, which I’m happy to provide! 

![Forms response chart. Question title: How would you rate your interest in what we've been doing?. Number of responses: .](https://storage.ghost.io/c/69/ce/69cefb51-a7c6-4dce-b8fa-39ad2b36a6e0/content/images/2026/08/data-src-image-c85640b8-e056-44df-838a-05f6088b6a15.png)

Another bunch responded this when giving me interest levels about different types of journalism. 100 percent of people want investigative pieces! Wow! We’ve also gotten some *great* feedback from people about me making some formatting mistakes and maybe needing to get a little copy editor. If I had the money, I would. We’ll see what I can do!

But still, there’s been few responses (as expected.) I would love to hear back from many more. Considering that around 3000 out of our 5000 ish subscribers read our newsletters, it would be wonderful to hear your opinion. If you’re new to the newsletter, your opinion is extremely valued as well, since you’ve decided to invest your time into this. So, if you will, please fill the survey.[ If the embed doesn’t work properly, please go to this link.](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemykWK6VXe9XO4WAJ9Qhhq8B8f3A5PX1gOrkmcVeNU91qJzQ/viewform?usp=header&ref=onthetrail.info) You may have to do the survey in your browser.

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