At De Correspondent, we owe our very existence
to our members, since we launched our Dutch ad-free journalism platform
after raising a total of 1.7 million dollars with a world record breaking crowd-funding campaign.
We encourage our correspondents — who all have their own niche — to
tell the stories that they feel are important, instead of just following
the hype cycle of the news.
By doing this, we try to go from ‘news’ to ‘new’.
These
‘new’ insights do not only come from our correspondents setting their
own news agenda. No, lots of insights are shared with us by our members.
This makes sense, since a thousand school teachers who read De Correspondent together know more than just one Education correspondent.
And
we’re just getting started. Here’s how we’re trying to turn our
correspondents into conversation leaders and our members into expert
contributors.
1. We don’t call them ‘comments’, we prefer ‘contributions’
Instead
of asking for their opinions, we ask our readers to share their
‘experience and knowledge’. And we don’t say ‘comments’, we prefer
‘contributions.’ This may seem like a minor detail, but the first step
to great reader contributions is an articulation of your expectations.
for more advise see
https://medium.com/de-correspondent/8c234ff5bc53
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