Trust in media across the world is in decline. Fully two-thirds of people surveyed as part of Edelman’s Trust Barometer 2018 believe that media organizations are more interested in attracting big a...
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Ernst-Jan Pfauth
co-founder and CEO The Correspondent
Ernst-Jan Pfauth is co-founder and CEO of The Correspondent, a journalism platform for “unbreaking news” that successfully crowdfunded $2.6 million from 45,888 backers in November 2018 and started publishing in 2019. The Correspondent is the English-language expansion of De Correspondent. This Dutch sister site has 63,000 paying members and a profitable books publishing division that sold over 400,000 books. It has been praised by media such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Fortune and Die Zeit for how it enables readers to share their knowledge with journalists.
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#IJF18 /
14 april 2018
How can you have no ads, no branded content, no subscribers and still thrive?
Jay Rosen and Ernst-Jan Pfauth, CEO of The Correspondent, will talk about membership and the merits of having members instead of subscribers and advertisers. It not just improves your business, but al...
How are European journalism start-ups and digital-born news media handling the basic challenges facing all new (and old) journalistic outfits: what do you focus your editorial resources on, how do you...
The fight for survival – in the journalism jungle at least - is very much still on. The single hats-off winning business model has yet to be found - assuming there is one. But there is certainly n...
For background reading on the remarkable De Correspondent success story; Mathew Ingram's This online journalism startup raised $1.7M in crowdfunding and you've never heard of it