New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World—and How to Make It Work for You

by Jeremy Heimans

“We believe that modern journalists shouldn’t see their readers as a passive group of annoying followers. Instead, they should regard readers as a potential gold mine of expert information.” This comes to life in many ways at De Correspondent. Every journalist shares their story idea or the question they want to investigate with members before they write a single word. Readers are then invited to draw on their expertise in that topic and share insights, ideas, or leads. Readers are given tools to curate, build on, and adapt material from the newspaper, adding external sources and their own experiences. And every article in the newspaper ends with a question for readers that “steers the contributions in the direction the correspondent finds journalistically most relevant.”