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13 votes
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Six red carnations and one severed ram’s head: Deadly threats sent to Russian independent newspaper
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How Facebook’s Chaotic Push Into Video Cost Hundreds of Journalists Their Jobs
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One man’s (very polite) fight against media Islamophobia
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Stop press: has a journalist revolt at Forbes Russia saved the magazine’s independence?
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Photos: What Hurricane Michael’s destruction looks like on the ground
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Why you should be skeptical of the latest nutrition headlines
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Turkey: Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi was killed by ‘murder’ team
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Financial News presenters Kai Risdal And Molly Wood are currently doing an AMA
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The NY Times has an option in their store to pick out favorite recipes that have been posted on the site (and in the paper) and print them in a cookbook
5 votes -
Photos from the deadly earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia
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As Comcast takes control of Sky, Murdoch could yet bounce back. Mogul’s influence on worldwide news is unlikely to be weakened by latest defeat
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Australia's Labor party laughing as Coalition kowtows to Rupert Murdoch
4 votes -
UN chief urges Myanmar government to free Reuters journalists
6 votes -
We now know more about the apparent poisoning of the Pussy Riot member Pyotr Verzilov
11 votes -
Five important stories that were lost in last week’s news dump
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Internet taxes are sweeping sub-Saharan Africa — and silencing citizens
9 votes -
The aftermath of Hurricane Florence
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Media Manipulation, Strategic Amplification, and Responsible Journalism | danah boyd at the Online News Association conference
11 votes -
Facebook punishes liberal news site after fact check by right-wing site
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Remembering The Onion’s 9/11 issue: ‘Everyone thought this would be our last issue in print’
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Why are newspaper websites so horrible?
23 votes -
BBC admits ‘we get climate change coverage wrong too often’
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Elon Musk and the meaning of ‘off the record’
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The entire island of Hokkaido in Japan is without power after a 6.7 magnitude earthquake
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I am part of the resistance inside the New York Times opinion desk
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China officially bans ABC website, claims internet is 'fully open'
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A study on the online "filter bubble" found that liberals and conservatives were actually recommended similar stories on Google News, representing a fairly homogeneous set of mainstream news sources
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Suspected Iranian influence operation leverages network of inauthentic news sites and social media targeting audiences in US, UK, Latin America, Middle East
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Tajikistan releases whistleblower but leaves conviction in place
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Whale hunt in Faroe Islands turns sea red with blood
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What it's like being the editor of a newspaper in Eve Online
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Fox News violates Poland's holocaust law with reference to "Polish death camp"
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The Correspondant - A different business model for organizations producing journalism.
I just watched an interesting This Week in Startups interview with the CEO of a nascent but successful new "news" organization from the Netherlands called De Correspondent. They are launching a...
I just watched an interesting This Week in Startups interview with the CEO of a nascent but successful new "news" organization from the Netherlands called De Correspondent. They are launching a new US-based company called The Correspondent, which has some high profile supporters. This list includes Nate Silver, William Julius Wilson, Rosanne Cash, and some others.
Their business model allows them to attract high-quality journalists by optimizing for journalistic integrity and independence. They have around 60,000 members paying around $70 per year in the Netherlands. They do no advertising business and are a for-profit corp with a dividend cap of 5% to make themselves unattractive to VC-type investors. The CEO claims they "ignore the news," meaning that they try to avoid the sound-bite quips that can be very distracting. They do not report on individual's scandals, instead focusing on systemic issues.
Journalists are required to share their stories with the members as they are developing. Stories are not guarded secrets while in development unlike traditional news organizations. This allows members to contribute to the stories via a form of curated crowdsourcing. For example, they reached out to members when doing a story on Shell, and found a few members who had access to the company which led to discovery of Shell's own internal Inconvenient Truth type video which was made in 1991.
The CEO also mentioned that he always includes a developer or designer in story discussions so that the latest investigation and presentation tools can be used on a story from day one.
Please take a look at the links and let me know what you think of this model, and its chances in the US market. I am pretty excited for anyone trying anything new in this space. What do you think? Would you pay for something like this?
Edit: I'm not sure if there is a better ~group for this topic, please move it if there is. Also, formatting, phrasing, and clarity.
Here is a direct link to the CEO's Medium account with more information.
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The million-dollar brownstone that no one owned
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Fascist activists have spent the last year trying to win over police
17 votes -
Hundreds of US newspapers run editorials rebuking Trump for attacks on media
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Shenzhen Tech Girl Naomi Wu: My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine
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A Boston newspaper is proposing a coordinated editorial response from publications across the U.S. to President Donald Trump’s frequent attacks on the news media.
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"Why objective journalism is a misleading and dangerous illusion"
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Manhole covers: A window into a city’s soul – in pictures
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The Most Powerful Publishers in the World Don’t Give a Damn
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Is compassion fatigue inevitable in an age of 24-hour news?
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Scientists aren’t impressed with New York Times’ new story on climate change
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What are your most trusted news sources and why?
My personal favorites are Vox and The Guardian because they have detailed articles often showing different perspectives on the same issue and site sources I find reputable. Some other sites I...
My personal favorites are Vox and The Guardian because they have detailed articles often showing different perspectives on the same issue and site sources I find reputable. Some other sites I really like are ProPublica and Five Thirty Eight (especially their politics podcast).
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Droughts, heatwaves and floods: How to tell when climate change is to blame
9 votes -
The Outline “slams” media for overusing the word
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The terrifying rise of alt-right fight clubs
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'The discourse is unhinged': how the media gets AI alarmingly wrong
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Colombian journalists say death threats reflect 'ugly' climate under new leader. They say ‘dangerous new atmosphere’ has emerged since Iván Duque, a fierce opponent of the peace process, took power
5 votes