Tag: De Correspondent
Every month, our membership grows with at least one percent (thanks to Facebook)
I reckon that if the five dominating media companies joined forces, 80% of original-content news would be owned by that collective. The five common-front news houses would need to make just one move: no more streaming of free news. The result? No more free news for Google News. No more Facebook news feed. If you…
Why I Blog (Again)
As long as I can remember, I always wanted to be a journalist. So when I moved to New York in 2007 to intern at the United Nations, I decided time had come to apply for a writing gig at a serious newspaper. I emailed my favorite journal, offering them my services and, to my…
Exploring the Frankfurt Buchmesse
I’m heading to the Buchmesse today, just caught an early train with my friend Daniël van der Meer. It’s a study trip for us, to see how the international book industry (net)works, but I won’t object if a German, French or any other foreign publisher wants to buy the rights of Rutger Bregmans book Free…
De Correspondent now publishes books too
Excited to tell you we’ve started publishing books at De Correspondent (more about our platform here). Author Rutger Bregman has written about importance of utopian thinking on our platform and three months ago announced that he wanted to further explore these ideas in a book. We immediately though: why not publishing it ourselves. So here goes,…