| 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 |
| Registration | 3 million people registered (free) |
Blasting News is a digital social news platform.
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. [1] [ promotional source? ]
In 2013, Blasting News launched in Switzerland. [2]
The site is currently producing and publishing (on a global scale) 20,000 original video-news articles [3] [ unreliable source? ] and 25,000 original news articles each month. [4]
Blasting News gets a significant portion of its readership from social media. [5]
In 2016, Blasting News was awarded by Google DNI (Digital News Innovation Fund) a grant of Euro 0.5 million to revolutionize[ peacock term ] digital information throughout Europe. [6] [7] [8]
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