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Blendle has been selling news by the article for nearly a decade, but “very limited” demand and the rise of digital subscriptions have done the idea in.
“It’s important to speak truth. It’s not that important to speak about truth as part of your brand.”
The public research project analyzed membership projects worldwide. They found successful communities were fixated on learning what their members value.
The company saw “a projected loss of 900,000 euros in 2021, against only 1 million euros in revenue.”
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.
The Correspondent is hiring a total of five full-time journalists.
“This represents five full-time correspondents working in different parts of the world, as well as at least five freelancers each month.”
“Subscribers pay their money and get access to a product. But members join the cause and participate because they believe in it.”
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.
“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?”