Inside The Ad-Free, Crowdfunded Publication That Is Upending The Newspaper Business

Can two disgruntled newspaper editors and a crowfunding campaign prove news can be a real business? De Correspondent is an independent, ad-free, Dutch-language publication and platform whose only investors are its subscribers and the founders themselves. Its correspondents cover niches from surveillance and satire to child care and "forgotten wars." Launched in August 2013 after a crowdfunding campaign which raised $1.7 million, De Correspondent now has over 28,000 subscribers who pay five euros ($6.84) a month.