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Laura Hazard OwenAugust 5, 2021

“There was a trap built into the very principles that we got people excited about”: Jay Rosen and Rob Wijnberg on why The Correspondent failed

“It’s important to speak truth. It’s not that important to speak about truth as part of your brand.”

Sarah ScireAugust 4, 2021

“The puzzle turned out to be more complicated than we thought”: After four years, the Membership Puzzle Project is winding down

The public research project analyzed membership projects worldwide. They found successful communities were fixated on learning what their members value.

Laura Hazard OwenDecember 10, 2020

The Correspondent, De Correspondent’s English-language site, is shutting down on Dec. 31

The company saw “a projected loss of 900,000 euros in 2021, against only 1 million euros in revenue.”

Joshua BentonSeptember 15, 2020

Who’s interested in “slow journalism”? Turns out, mostly the same people who are into regular ol’ fast journalism

Slow news has been pitched as a way to break through the noise and reach audiences exhausted by the daily headlines. But it’s still fast-news junkies who are most attracted to it, this new research finds.

Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 17, 2019

After a $2.6M crowdfunding campaign, The Correspondent will have just one full-time journalist in the U.S.

The Correspondent is hiring a total of five full-time journalists.

Christine SchmidtJune 27, 2019

Here’s The Correspondent’s budget for its English-language expansion

“This represents five full-time correspondents working in different parts of the world, as well as at least five freelancers each month.”

Christine SchmidtMay 9, 2019

Is your organization thinking about membership? Take some ideas (and maybe some money) from the Membership Puzzle Project

“Subscribers pay their money and get access to a product. But members join the cause and participate because they believe in it.”

Laura Hazard OwenMay 2, 2019

What will The Correspondent publish in English? A look at the Dutch site offers some clues

I analyzed six months of articles on De Correspondent to get a hint of what we might see on the English-language site. What I found didn’t always match the marketing.

Laura Hazard OwenMarch 27, 2019

The Correspondent’s editor-in-chief talks about what U.S. expansion means (and doesn’t — an office)

“Keep in mind that, especially in a campaign like this, tons of people talk about what we’re trying to do. So the idea that you can keep all these people on message all the time would be kind of totalitarian, right?”

“The widest shoulders carry the heaviest load”: A Danish socialist outlet charges membership fees based on personal income

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