With backing from Judd Apatow and Kamau Bell, the reader-centric Dutch organization offers pay-what-you-want model
De 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.
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