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?”
“Our angle on the current state of journalism is this: The crisis of journalism and legacy news media is structural, and not just a matter of technological challenges or broken business models.”
“We want to find people who recognize the potential of the audience, and are looking to capitalize on this potential and pull together a learning group to try some things and see what emerges.”
A new study from the Reuters Institute examines the strengths and weaknesses of seven globally ambitious news companies — Brut, Business Insider, De Correspondent, HuffPost, Mashable, Quartz, and Vice.
New Naratif, modeled loosely on the successful Dutch site De Correspondent, has started a crowdfunding campaign with the goal of signing up 3,500 members.
Ong, Yunita. "This Singapore-based startup tests Southeast Asia’s appetite for a member-funded journalism service." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 3 Oct. 2017. Web. 21 May. 2019.
APA
Ong, Y. (2017, Oct. 3). This Singapore-based startup tests Southeast Asia’s appetite for a member-funded journalism service. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved May 21, 2019, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/10/this-singapore-based-startup-tests-southeast-asias-appetite-for-a-member-funded-journalism-service/
Chicago
Ong, Yunita. "This Singapore-based startup tests Southeast Asia’s appetite for a member-funded journalism service." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified October 3, 2017. Accessed May 21, 2019. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/10/this-singapore-based-startup-tests-southeast-asias-appetite-for-a-member-funded-journalism-service/.
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