Popula in the News
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Longform: “Best of 2018”
ComicsBeat: “The Best Comics of 2018”
Bunk: “Best American History Reads of 2018”
ZigZag Podcast: “Listening to Anthony Bourdain”
The Brick House Cooperative
The New York Times: A Media Pioneer Tries Again With a New Journalism Cooperative
The Nation: My Life in the Media Machine
Columbia Journalism Review: Introducing the Brick House: The Wolf-Proof Media Cooperative
Current Affairs Podcast: Support the Brick House Cooperative!
Bloomberg’s Odd Lots Podcast: This is What Happened When They Tried to Fix Journalism Using Blockchain
Knight Foundation: Five Business Model Shifts for Local News in 2021 and Beyond
Journalism and Crypto
Longform:“Best of 2018”
BreakerMag: “An Early Bitcoin Believer’s Bet on Blockchain Journalism”
Columbia Journalism Review: “Erasing History”
Postlight: “Decentralized Journalism: A Conversation with Maria Bustillos”
The Block Crypto: “News publication uploads an entire article onto Ethereum and IPFS”
CCN: “Popula Stores News on Ethereum’s Blockchain”
CoinDesk: “Civil-Backed News Site Stores Full Article on Ethereum Blockchain”
Yahoo Finance: “Popula Stores News on Ethereum’s Blockchain”
CoinDesk: “Civil-Backed News Site Stores Full Article on Ethereum Blockchain”
Coin Talk Podcast: “The Coin Talk Interview with Maria Bustillos”
Civil.co and Popula
Civil: “Five Questions For… Aaron Bady, Popula”
Civil: “Five Questions For… A.J. Daulerio, Popula”
Civil: “Popula | Alternative News With a Global Conscience”
The Baffler: “The Civil-izing Process”
Brooklyn Based: “Understanding Civil’s blockchain fix for the news: An explainer”
Observer: “This Blockchain-Powered News Network Could Solve Journalism’s Billionaire Problem”