Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Getting personal: A Dutch online news platform wants you to subscribe to individual journalists

Nieman Jorunalism Lab reporting:
“It’s my own little shop, that’s what I like about it. You decide what goes in — like having your own newspaper.”
Arnold Karskens has his own channel on Dutch news startup De Nieuwe Pers (The New Press). For €1.79 a month, readers can subscribe to him and read his war reporting and investigations into war criminals. Don’t care about war crimes? Maybe some of the other journalist-driven channels — on subjects from games to France, from the science of sex to environmental sustainability, from Germany to the euro crisis — would be of interest.
De Nieuwe Pers recently launched in the Netherlands as an online platform for freelance journalists. Users pay €4.49 a month for access to all content on its app or website. But what stands out is the possibility to subscribe to individual reporters, for €1.79 a month. Think True/Slant, but with paywalls...
http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/04/getting-personal-a-dutch-online-news-platform-wants-you-to-subscribe-to-individual-journalists/

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