DE NIEUWSTE AMSTERDAMMER
2020-2021
Media organisation, non-profit, journalistic initiative
Together with 23 residents of the asylum seekers center (ASC) in Amsterdam, I launched De Nieuwste Amsterdammer: the first mass media news platform operated from an ASC. A journalistic organisation built on a system of enablement, with our own digital and physical publication platforms.
The team of ASC residents were coached through individual tailored tracks by a team of 20+ experts, including 5 professional journalists from our country's biggest newspapers (a.o. NRC, De Volkskrant, Trouw) and 2 industry leading photographers (Robin de Puy and Jan Dirk van der Burg) in creating high quality journalistic content from their own perspective.
The printed 'De Nieuwste Amsterdammer' launched on February 6, 2021 with a circulation of 50.000, delivered to 50.000 Amsterdam homes in a radius around the ASC. Funded through 300+ individual crowdfunding contributions and by selling print ads to 20+ organisations including The UN, Bezige Bij, Pakhuis de Zwijger, and more.
We were widely featured in the press (Parool, NH-Nieuws, Westkrant, and more) and were personally invited by Rob Jetten to present the project in the House of Representatives in Den Hague.
