The Core

Interesting.  I couldn't find anything about who actually will do the writing, paid staff, quasi-pro locals, man-on-the-street?

Netherlands culture is a distant cousin to the US, I'm not enthusiastic about its ling-term viability here. 

What Yahoo and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong learned from Patch’s struggles - Recode
https://www.recode.net/2017/8/31/16228076/yahoo-aol-oath-verizon-ceo-tim-armstrong-learned-from-patch-struggles

Armstrong founded Patch in 2007, and when he became AOL’s CEO, he acquired it in 2009. And until majority ownership of the company was sold to Hale Global in 2014, he weathered constant doubt and criticism from both investors and the media over the brand’s losses. However, he said, on “very small amounts of the property” — meaning, in a small number of the cities and towns that got local news sites on Patch.com — it thrived.

“The lesson was, we should have tightened way further down on the towns that were working, and then made sure they were getting replicated exactly out in the market,” Armstrong said.

You can listen to the new podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Overcast or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Armstrong praised Patch’s new owners, noting that it’s now profitable and growing. And he still believes that the calculus behind the site was right — just too early.

This is an interesting approach.  I think it is worth watching. 

The Correspondent https://thecorrespondent.com/ launched today.  It's a different approach but I like the fact that their first lineup of correspondents are from many different cultures and continents.  The first few articles are introductory and getting acquainted sorts.  Length more like the Atlantic so their is promise of some depth.   My subscription runs for a year so time enough for a good test.

I'm not looking for articles that I agree with, but I am looking for writing that will make me think and perhaps see issues in different ways than the mainstream media.  Hopefully they will deliver.

Do you know who any of those people are? I clicked through only the EIC

Rob Wijnberg (1982) is the founding editor of The Correspondent. At age 27, he became Europe's youngest editor-in-chief at Dutch print daily nrc.next. He studied philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and has written six books on news, media and philosophy. He was voted Journalist of the Year in The Netherlands in 2013. Languages: Dutch, English, Slovakian.

Seems pretty solid to me.