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23 votes
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“We’re drinking now”: The oldest newspaper in New Orleans just fired its entire staff
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Steve Bannon caught on video admitting Breitbart lost 90% of advertising revenue due to boycott
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In Brazil 30 million people live in a 'quasi desert' of news
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The fall and rise of partisan journalism
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As mainstream journalists acknowledge Douma attacks were likely "staged," the "humanitarian" Syria Regime-Change Network tries to save a sinking ship
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Media industry loses about 1,000 jobs as layoffs hit news organizations
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Inside China's audacious global propaganda campaign
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How to keep the news coming
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ABC and SBS cleared by review into claims they compete unfairly with commercial rivals
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Former Macedonian strongman's escape to Hungary triggers a flood of disinformation
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Katharine Viner: 'The Guardian's reader funding model is working. It's inspiring'
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Should the press boycott Trump? Political strategists weigh in
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Trump’s attacks on the news media are working
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ABC board members appointed by Communications Minister Mitch Fifield despite being rejected by merit-based panel
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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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Russia’s brazen lies mock the world. How best to fight for the truth?
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Amid nationwide strike, media access to prisons is limited
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Reality Winner, former NSA translator, gets more than five years in leak of Russian hacking report
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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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Hundreds of US newspapers run editorials rebuking Trump for attacks on media
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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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Thailand's cave boys leave Buddhist temple, but stay out of spotlight
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Tronc slashes 'New York Daily News' staff by half
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YouTube aims to crack down on fake news, support journalism
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Distinguishing between factual and opinion statements in the US news
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Distinguishing between factual and opinion statements in the US news
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The Breaking News Consumer's Handbook - How to sort good information from bad
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The hidden costs of losing your city's newspaper
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Elon Musk will launch a website called Pravada - used to rank credibility in the media.
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A look inside Radio Sputnik, the Russian funded media outlet operating in thirty-four countries in more than thirty languages, including an AM/FM station in Washington, DC
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