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Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more?
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'Everything you're seeing is deception.' How right-wing media talks about impeachment
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Far right wing French billionaire takes over prestigious newspaper Journal du Dimanche
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The New York Times Tech Union vote count starts this morning, and we made a live vote tracker!
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Grid News goes live with millions in funding and a team of more than twenty journalists
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Distinguishing between factual and opinion statements in the US news
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Our fundamental right to shame and shun The New York Times
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Robin Kemp lost her news job in Clayton County, Ga. — but she kept reporting the news. It paid off on election week.
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China bans journalists from the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal in retaliation for state media restrictions by the Trump administration
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The fragmentation of truth
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Hundreds of US newspapers run editorials rebuking Trump for attacks on media
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Russian influence campaign sought to exploit Americans' trust in local news
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Fox settles Dominion defamation lawsuit for $787.5 million, avoiding US trial
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New Jersey requiring students to learn 'media literacy' to fight 'disinformation'
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The Correspondent will stop publishing on 1 January 2021
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US to treat Chinese state media like an arm of Beijing's government
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Glenn Greenwald charged with cybercrimes in Brazil
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Sydney Ember’s Secret Sources: NYT reporter hides corporate ties of Sanders critics she highlights
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Media industry loses about 1,000 jobs as layoffs hit news organizations
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Katharine Viner: 'The Guardian's reader funding model is working. It's inspiring'
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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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A global guide to state-sponsored trolling
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New US ambassador to Germany under fire for rightwing support. Politicians accuse Richard Grenell of breaching protocol over interview with Breitbart
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Raisi cancels CNN interview after Christiane Amanpour refuses to wear hijab
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Five things the media does to manufacture outrage
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Canada's digital news subscription tax credit
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Which newspapers/magazines do you read and why?
I recently obtained a access to a TON of different magazines and papers from Europe, US, UK and a few from Australia and New Zealand but I have no clue about the quality of stuff outside my native...
I recently obtained a access to a TON of different magazines and papers from Europe, US, UK and a few from Australia and New Zealand but I have no clue about the quality of stuff outside my native country so I would like to hear some suggestions.
Which ones do you read and would recommend to others and why?
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The Atlantic launches new subscription plans and introduces a metered model
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“I felt like it was a betrayal, and we had raised funds on a false pretense”: The Correspondent’s first US employee speaks out
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FTC hits "predatory" scientific publisher with a $50 million fine
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Elon Musk will launch a website called Pravada - used to rank credibility in the media.
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As news deserts expand, US student journalists step up
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The system that fuels media negativity
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High Court of Australia rules that media outlets are publishers of third-party Facebook comments
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Scientific American retracted pro-Palestine article without any factual errors
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Rubber ducks have become a symbol of Thailand’s pro-democracy protests in Bangkok after demonstrators used them as shields against police water cannon and teargas
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Pro-democracy protests in Thailand, in pictures
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The New York Times admits key falsehoods that drove last year’s coup in Bolivia: Falsehoods peddled by the United States, its media, and the New York Times itself
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America’s largest media labor union launches historic advocacy campaign to save industry: "having robust news operations at the local and state level is fundamentally good for democratic stability."
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Announcement of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners
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What happens when local news outlets don't exist?
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National news agency, Australian Associated Press, will be shut down at the end of June after its owners decided it was no longer sustainable
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Sweden has summoned China's ambassador after he threatened the Swedish media for its coverage of the dissident bookseller Gui Minhai and other sensitive topics
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Hundreds of ‘pink slime’ local news outlets are distributing algorithmic stories and conservative talking points
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Under fire, SF cops announce criminal investigation of reporter
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Documents show the US government created a secret database of activists, journalists, and social media influencers tied to the migrant caravan and in some cases, placed alerts on their passports
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How Facebook Screwed Us All - It’s not just spreading phony stories everywhere—it’s killing real news
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The endless reign of Rupert Murdoch
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'Murdered' Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko is alive
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