A new app
We have a new app and I helped build it! Who would have thought that two years ago. Go check it out (Play Store / App Store)
We’re not finished yet. Later this year we will be launching the redesign for web too.
Archived entries for De Correspondent
De Correspondent turned 10!
I feel very privileged being part of it since the very beginning. On to the next ten years!
It’s official: I’m a front-end developer
A big change in my career. First a documentary photographer, then an image editor, after that a creative editor-in-chief and now a front-end developer. But still with De Correspondent, that platform with which I have completely fused over the year.
Looking forward to developing new skills, knowledge and ideas. Who knows what will be next?
Guest in podcast Verwondering
In the podcast Verwondering of Harald Dunnink (creative director of Momkai and co-founder of De Correspondent) I was invited to talk about the roll and philosophy of imagery on De and The Correspondent. We talked about our policy, my projects on image forming, our creative team ánd gardening.
[Listen here and check out the gallery with visuals of all topics we covered]
The origin story of our avatars
On De Correspondent I wrote the origin story of the key element in the house style of our journalistic platform: the hand drawn avatars. In the past seven years we have had several versions of the hand drawn portraits. In this piece I’m explaining why and how.
[Illustration by Cléa Dieudonné]
Book ‘This was not the news’
As part of the five years anniversary of De Correspondent we published a book with some of our best journalism, about the big structures and changes of our times. All our over 60.000 members get the e-book for free.
[Illustration by Momkai]
Yes! De Correspondent goes international
Thanks to a successful crowdfund campaign De Correspondent will have an English expansion by mid 2019! You can join our movement here.
Guest at conference for innovation in journalism
Representing De Correspondent at the conference Stop de Persen organised by Fonds voor Bijzondere Journalistieke Projecten.
[Photo by Bob Bronshoff]
Deputy editor in chief
After being the image director from the very beginning of De Correspondent in 2013 I’m honoured to be promoted to deputy editor in chief of this journalism platform that provides an antidote to the daily news grind.
Update: in June 2018 I became editor in chief together with Rosan Smits.
Analysing the photo book of Pete Souza
The photo book Obama: An Intimate Portrait by Pete Souza is published. For years I’ve been going through his archive of Obama, analysing the orchestrated image forming of him as president. Does this photo book bring something new in addition to what we’ve seen?
Read the article here [in Dutch]