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“When you diamond-mine, you basically mess up the resource if you go for the best stuff first.”
The Belgian investigative news site Apache is a co-op, counting on its shareholders and subscribers — who are often the same people.
“You can’t stop these guys from getting rich as hell and doing things, but I can at least have a marker laid out there in the cyber world saying: Hey, take a hard look.”
“We have a role that is almost like an NGO. We build and open databases, break with the exclusivist paradigm — we even train competitors!”
“There’s a reason the group’s called PostThis — we want people to take stories we share there and actually post them to their own networks.”
“We’re trying to make it more convenient for people to get more of the big picture of local news.”
Its chief content officer: “My message has been, any journalist at any of our papers can come up with a great idea, something that we think is scalable, we will help them scale it.”