by Jane Whyatt, research Dr Petra GaustiWhen a new owner bought Slovakia’s SME newspaper group and announced his intention of running it for his commercial interests, something snapped in the newsroom.
Journalists led by Editor-in-Chief Matúš Kostolný decided to quit. And not only to quit, but to start their own newspaper. They would continue to produce independent, critical news reports and investigations and they would not accept editorial interference by owners or advertisers.
The result: Projekt N
Projekt N (Screenshot)
It was crowdsourced from the readers buying subscriptions – even before the first edition was produced. That is because the journalists involved had…
