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In the Netherlands, a Patch-like hyperlocal network is making money and...
In the United States, there are any number of individual hyperlocal sites that are proving sustainable — Berkeleyside, West Seattle Blog, and the like. What’s proved more elusive is a way to take those...
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Getting personal: A Dutch online news platform wants you to subscribe to...
“It’s my own little shop, that’s what I like about it. You decide what goes in — like having your own newspaper.” Arnold Karskens has his own channel on Dutch news startup De Nieuwe Pers (The New...
View ArticleIn the Netherlands, a magazine experiments with “social distribution” (and...
Every workday in Mumbai, 350,000 home-cooked meals make their way from homes to offices at midday via a network of “culinary couriers” called dabbawallas. Single meals often pass through a dozen hands...
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A money-back guarantee: How Blendle hopes to convince Dutch news readers to...
The idea came to Marten Blankesteijn as the team behind Blendle, a new Dutch newsreading platform that allows readers to pay by the article, was out for beers one Friday night: Readers should be...
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The newsonomics of European crowds, funding new news
VIENNA — A small roar erupted in the crowded workshop. Krautreporter, with hours to go, had met its crowdfunded goal, gaining a commitment of €60 each from what would turn out to be 17,000 people. The...
View ArticleTurning a profit in the Netherlands: How a Dutch hyperlocal network has grown
While lots of U.S. media companies are still struggling to figure out how to make hyperlocal news financially viable, in the Netherlands, a four-year-old network of hyperlocal sites began turning a...
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“The Shire” or “Darwin’s Game”? Here are 4 visions of what journalism might...
The future of journalism will come down in one of four ways. At least, that’s what a new report What’s New(s): Scenarios for the Future of Journalism, released by the Dutch Journalism Fund this week...
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Reuters report: Across Europe, digital news consumption and access via mobile...
Allegiance to traditional media like TV remains strong in many European countries. Many of these countries also see a low proportion of people paying for online news. But the newly released supplement...
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Dutch news site De Correspondent has signed up 40,000 paid members
In the two years since it began publishing in the fall of 2013, the Dutch news site De Correspondent has signed up 40,000 paying members, the site said Tuesday. De Correspondent launched out of a...
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Testing its pay-per-article model in English, Blendle launches in the United...
Blendle, the Dutch platform that lets users pay by the article, launched in a limited beta in the United States on Wednesday by partnering with 20 outlets — including premium publishers like The New...
View ArticleFast and furious: Using Axel Springer’s reach, Business Insider is pushing...
Business Insider is wasting no time setting up its little newsrooms around the world. With the recent launch of Polish and Nordic sites, the company now has 10 international editions. A French version...
View ArticleFollow the Money is both good advice for journalists and an investigative...
There’s a famous scene in the film version of All the President’s Men. Woodward and Bernstein have hit a wall in their reporting. So Woodward, played by Robert Redford, goes to meet his source — Deep...
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The Dutch newsletter platform Revue, with around 30,000 users, is opening up...
For people interested in a no-frills way to spin up a new personal newsletter, there are more alternatives to Mailchimp-TinyLetter than ever. Prominent newcomers like U.S. startup Substack or the...
View ArticleDutch news organization De Correspondent is getting more money toward its...
Dutch darling De Correspondent got its start in the Netherlands in 2013 as a wildly successful crowdfunded news site promising ad-free, in-depth journalism and close reader participation in the...
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