The Correspondent concludes crowdfunding campaign and raises $2.6 million thanks to 45,888 members from more than 130 countries

We will start publishing by mid-2019

Update (December 15, 2018): Our campaign has ended. In thirty days, 45,888 founding members from more than 130 countries contributed $2.6 million. Thank you all so much!

Dear founding members,

From the bottom of our hearts: thank you. In fact, thank you 42,780 times over, for your overwhelming support!

After an incredibly exciting month — with endless hours spent refreshing the counter, appearances on The Daily Show and CNN, and countless social posts by you all about our movement — you’ve helped us take The Correspondent from dream to reality.

We reached our goal of $2.5 million exactly 34 hours before the deadline. The median pledge was $30. This really is a grassroots movement for unbreaking news.

Thanks to all of you, the journalism movement we founded in The Netherlands in 2013 will now expand to an English-language platform serving and collaborating with members from all over the world. 🌍🌍🌍

You can still join at thecorrespondent.com

Thanks to all of you, we’ve set a new world record for the number of backers in a journalism crowdfunding campaign. (The previous record — 18,933 — was set during the crowdfunding campaign of our Dutch counterpart, De Correspondent, in 2013.)

Thanks to all of you, we can soon start making *unbreaking news* in collaboration with members from more than 130 countries!