In this episode we talk to Bram Souffreau, a co-founder and former journalist of Apache, and now the operational manager.
Apache started in 2009 by the will of a group of journalists affected by a restructuring of the media sector. It is an investigative journalism outlet that covers the Flemish region in Belgium. Apache started as a blog, and it grew into a professionalized newsroom. It works as a cooperative, that has around 2000 members. Besides the original investment made by the 2000 co-owners, Apache is mainly funded by subscriptions, with around 5000 subscribers for the website, and around 1500 for the magazine.
Listen to this episode to find out more about community revenue from an outlet that gets most of its funding through subscriptions.