We are very excited to announce that [Mediapart](https://www.mediapart.fr), an independent French investigative journal, has decided to support Tails financially every year.
In the past years, Mediapart has played a central role in the revelation and investigation of several major French political scandals. As such they are well aware of the digital threats faced by their sources, their journalists, and their readers.
Tails has gained recognition by being used by Edward Snowden and the journalists reporting on his NSA leaks in 2014. [According to Barton Gellman](https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2014/04/help-support-little-known-privacy-tool-has-been-critical-journalists-reporting-nsa):
Since then [[many journalists around the world|news/who_are_you_helping#journalists]] understood this approach and adopted Tails to make it easier to stay safe. As Jean-Marc Manach puts it:
As such, Tails has been the recommended secure platform for use with the [SecureDrop](https://securedrop.org/) and [GlobaLeaks](https://globaleaks.org/) whistle-blowing platforms.
Talking about the challenges of the adoption of encryption by journalists, the Internet freedom expert [Christopher Soghoian said at #EncryptNews](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JktB6h-qnKA), a conference on digital security and journalism: