NEW YORK -- November 28, 2018 -- The Correspondent (thecorrespondent.com), a new journalism site building a movement for unbreaking news, has raised $1 million from 14,962 people in 98 countries since the campaign rolled out two weeks ago.
This is a major milestone for a journalism platform in the US, and is comparable to the team’s first world-record setting crowdfunding campaign, with De Correspondent in The Netherlands, five years ago.
The Correspondent launched its crowdfunding campaign to change what news is about, how it’s made, and how it’s funded.
Funds raised through the campaign will help to build a newsroom of full-time correspondents, editors, editorial designers, operations, and back-office staff from the ground up.
Among The Correspondent’s founding members are FiveThirthyEight’s Nate Silver, Hollywood producer Judd Apatow, musician Rosanne Cash, activist DeRay Mckesson, and Game of Thrones star Carice van Houten.