Is the problem of journalism an office in New York(*)?

Alberto Puliafito
Wolf - Problem solving
6 min readApr 30, 2019

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De Correspondent raised €1.3 million with crowdfunding in the Netherlands as a journalistic startup.
A few years later, The Correspondent, the English, global version, raised $ 2.6 million with crowdfunding (after a $ 1.8 private “runaway funding”).

The Correspondent’s mission statement is: unbreaking news.

With a clear manifesto they called “Our 10 founding principles”, the founders explained how to rethink and rebuild the journalism itself.

The second crowdfunding was born and developed mainly in the USA. If you search online you can find the content of the campaign and you can see, for example

  • the Correspondent van in action in several iconic places in the United States
  • a lot of mentors from the USA
  • important passages on TV, for example by Jay Rosen (Ambassador) and Rob Wijnberg (Editor-in-chief), respectively in The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and at CNN
  • several statements about the U.S. and picture of the first The Correspondent’s office in the U.S.

After the end of the fundraising, The Correspondent announced that they will not have a physical location in New York.

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Alberto Puliafito
Wolf - Problem solving

Slow News Editor-in-Chief. My nickname is Malaparte. I resist against state of emergency. Formerly Blogo. Director, SEO, communication strategist.