The antidote to scale? Dutch site De Correspondent has an alternative model for web journalism – and it’s paying off

De Correspondent is not like other online publishers. It doesn’t carry advertising, it doesn’t cover breaking news and it doesn’t see its readers as page views.
Instead, it involves those readers deeply in the process of creating each of its meticulously researched and substantial stories. And they are responding in kind by paying for its journalism in increasing numbers – a rare thing indeed in a web publishing world dominated by free fare.
The Dutch-language site is the