In late December, The Young Turks launched a crowdfunding campaign with a fundraising goal of $2 million, which would go toward funding new hires to deepen TYT’s investigative coverage. The campaign kicked off on Dec. 23, 2016 with a 6-hour telethon that had amassed about $400,000 at roughly the halfway point. When the campaign would reach $500,000, TYT promised to announce the first of its hires.
That point came five days later, when the first of TYT’s new hires, Nomiki Konst and Shaun King, were announced.
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