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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?”
Schmidt, Christine. "“The widest shoulders carry the heaviest load”: A Danish socialist outlet charges membership fees based on personal income." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 18 Mar. 2019. Web. 5 Jun. 2023.
APA
Schmidt, C. (2019, Mar. 18). “The widest shoulders carry the heaviest load”: A Danish socialist outlet charges membership fees based on personal income. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved June 5, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/the-widest-shoulders-carry-the-heaviest-load-a-danish-socialist-outlet-charges-membership-fees-based-on-personal-income/
Chicago
Schmidt, Christine. "“The widest shoulders carry the heaviest load”: A Danish socialist outlet charges membership fees based on personal income." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 18, 2019. Accessed June 5, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/the-widest-shoulders-carry-the-heaviest-load-a-danish-socialist-outlet-charges-membership-fees-based-on-personal-income/.
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