The Correspondent: crowdfunded news site prepares to launch English version
(The Guardian Netherlands)

With backing from Judd Apatow and Kamau Bell, the reader-centric Dutch organization offers pay-what-you-want modelDe Correspondent, the Dutch journalism organization which has gained plaudits for its crowdfunded, reader-centric approach to news, aims to launch an English language site in 2019, its co-founder announced on Wednesday.Rob Wijnberg, who launched De Correspondent following a crowd-funding drive in the Netherlands in 2013, told the Guardian the English-language version, like the Dutch outlet, would focus on `underlying forces in the world that shape our society` rather than the daily news agenda. Continue reading...