Blasting News
Blasting News is based on the concept of collective intelligence applied to news reporting, usually referred as social journalism, citizen journalism, alternative media or collaborative journalism[2].
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| Type of business | Private |
|---|---|
Type of site | News Social journalism |
| Available in | English French Italian Spanish German Portuguese |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Headquarters | |
| Founder(s) | Andrea Manfredi |
| Employees | 2,500 contributors (2017) |
| URL | www |
| Alexa rank | 9,853rd most visited site in the world (2018) [1] |
| Registration | 3 million people registered (free) |
Blasting News is a digital social news platform.
History
In 2013, Blasting News launched in Switzerland.[3]
Circulation
The site is currently producing and publishing (on a global scale) 20,000 original video-news articles[4] and 25,000 original news articles each month.[5]
Blasting News gets a significant portion of its readership from social media.[6]
Awards
In 2016, Blasting News was awarded by Google DNI (Digital News Innovation Fund) a grant of Euro 0.5 million to revolutionize digital information throughout Europe.[7][8] [9]
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References
- "Blastingnews.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors". Alexa. Retrieved September 8, 2018.
- Albeanu, Catalina (28 May 2015). "The Blasting News model for social journalism". Journalism.co.uk.
- "Blasting News sbarca in Ticino". Ticino News. January 28, 2014.
- "Blasting News produce 20.000 video originali al mese". Prima Comunicazione. 20 April 2018.
- "Blasting News - PEI - Private Equity Insights". pe-conference.org.
- "How one viral publisher uses Facebook groups to grow big numbers". Digiday. 8 March 2017.
- "Blasting News - Digital News Initiative".
- "Google news initiative awards six figure sums". Press Gazette. February 2016.
- "Trinity mirror receives six figure sum, googles digital news initiative". The Drum. 26 February 2016.
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