Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Co founder and first CEO (2013 - 2022) of De Correspondent. Now running a publishing house called POM, which publishes bestselling books and renowned podcasts about the influence of technology on our societies and lives.
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Alexander Klöpping and I have been producing POM, our weekly podcast about media and technology, since 2016. In 2022, we added "Jonge Jaren" (The Days of Yore) and "Goed Verhaal" (Great Story) to our repertoire. In 2023, we started a publishing company called POM.press. Our first book is the Dutch version of NY Times-reporter Kashmir Hill's book on facial recognition: Your Face Belongs to Us.
Every other Monday, I wrote a media and technology column for Dutch quality daily NRC's media section. The section folded early 2023.
After serving as publisher of De Correspondent for almost six years, I became its CEO in January 2019.
De Correspondent is a Dutch ad-free journalism platform with 62,000 subscribers who pay 70 euros per year. It launched in 2013, after raising $1.7 million with a world-record breaking crowdfunding campaign. I'm one of the four cofounders and focused on company growth.
News leaves us cynical, divided, and less informed. The Correspondent was a movement for unbreaking news, changing what news is about, how it’s made, and how it’s funded. After raising 2.6 million in a crowdfunding campaign, The Correspondent published transnational journalism with correspondents from five different continents.