maart 2014

30,000 paying members: landmark for Dutch online journalism platform De Correspondent

De Correspondent is a Dutch-language, online journalism platform that offers background, analysis, investigative reporting, and the kinds of stories that tend to escape the radar of mainstream media because they do not conform to what is normally understood to be ‘news.’ It launched on September 30th last year, after raising a total of 1.7 million dollars with a world record crowd-funding campaign, and welcomed its 30,000th member today.

september 2013

30 sep

De Correspondent launches official website

On September 30th, the official website of De Correspondent will go live. Femke Halsema, Arnon Grunberg and David Van Reybrouck, among others, are contributors to the site, which was founded by Rob Wijnberg and developed by design agency Momkai. A crowdfunding campaign resulted in a world record in journalism: within eight days, 15.000 members made a pledge. They now number more than 20.200. De Correspondent allows members to follow their favorite correpondents and to contribute to stories.

De Correspondent lanceert officiële website

Op maandag 30 september lanceert De Correspondent haar officiële website. Onder anderen Jelle Brandt Corstius, Femke Halsema, Arnon Grunberg en David Van Reybrouck schrijven voor de site, die opgericht is door Rob Wijnberg en ontwikkeld door ontwerpbureau Momkai. De crowdfundingsactie leidde tot een wereldrecord in de journalistiek: in acht dagen meldden 15.000 leden zich aan. Nu zijn het er 20.200. Het is een plek waar leden hun favoriete correspondenten kunnen volgen en bijdragen aan verhalen.

maart 2013

26 mrt

Crowdfunding record for quality journalism

The Correspondent, an Amsterdam-based startup aimed at presenting quality online journalism, reached a crowdfunding milestone today: more than 15.000 members helped the platform to raise over one million euros (approx. $1.3 million) in just 8 days. With this funding, creators Rob Wijnberg (Dutch journalist) and Harald Dunnink (founder of Momkai) hope to set up a new online platform for in-depth news analysis and long-form journalism, due in September 2013.