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| Available in | Dutch, English (partly) |
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| Owner | De Correspondent B.V. |
| Editor | Rob Wijnberg |
| URL | DeCorrespondent.nl |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required |
| Users | 60,000 |
| Launched | 30 September 2013 |
| Current status | Online |
De Correspondent is a Dutch news website based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was launched on 30 September 2013 after raising more than €1 million in a crowdfunding campaign in eight days.[1] The website distinguishes itself by rejecting the daily news cycle and focusing on in-depth and chronological coverage on a topical basis, led by individual correspondents who each focus on specific topics. Sometimes it publishes English versions of its articles.
The concept and initial success of De Correspondent has inspired other projects elsewhere. A German website Krautreporter was founded in 2014 and adopted the same concept.[2]
An English-language news site, titled The Correspondent, launched on September 30, 2019.[3] The site raised US$2.6 million through a crowdfunding campaign in late 2018, boosted by prominent backers including Jay Rosen and Trevor Noah.[4][5] However, it endured substantial criticism after it was announced that it would not open an office in the United States, as many backers had anticipated.[5] On 10 December 2020, NiemanLab broke the news that The Correspondent would be closing down on 31 December 2020.[6]
- ^ "A Dutch crowdfunded news site has raised $1.3 million and hopes for a digital-native journalism". Nieman Lab.
- ^ Hardt, Maria-Xenia (13 May 2014). "15 000 Mal sechzig Euro" [15 000 times sixty euro]. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 12 August 2015.
- ^ "The Correspondent — Unbreaking news". The Correspondent. The Netherlands. Retrieved 16 December 2018. English language version.
- ^ The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. "JAY ROSEN - CREATING A SPACE FOR AD-FREE JOURNALISM WITH THE CORRESPONDENT". Comedy Central. Archived from the original on 9 December 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
- ^ a b Ingram, Mathew (28 March 2019). "Crowdfunded journalism startup The Correspondent under fire". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
- ^ "The Correspondent, De Correspondent's English-language site, is shutting down". Retrieved 10 December 2020.