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.
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.
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.
“They’re really good at the PR thing, and it really feels like gaslighting. They were like, ‘Well, we never promised a U.S. newsroom.’ I was like: Wait, did I just imagine all this?”
“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?”
Owen, Laura Hazard. "The Correspondent’s editor-in-chief talks about what U.S. expansion means (and doesn’t — an office)." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 27 Mar. 2019. Web. 5 Dec. 2023.
APA
Owen, L. (2019, Mar. 27). The Correspondent’s editor-in-chief talks about what U.S. expansion means (and doesn’t — an office). Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved December 5, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/the-correspondents-editor-in-chief-talks-about-what-u-s-expansion-means-and-doesnt-an-office/
Chicago
Owen, Laura Hazard. "The Correspondent’s editor-in-chief talks about what U.S. expansion means (and doesn’t — an office)." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 27, 2019. Accessed December 5, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/the-correspondents-editor-in-chief-talks-about-what-u-s-expansion-means-and-doesnt-an-office/.
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