{"id":102292,"date":"2017-04-20T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=102292"},"modified":"2017-04-20T09:00:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T09:00:29","slug":"forget-breaking-news-unherd-com-plans-to-dive-deeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/forget-breaking-news-unherd-com-plans-to-dive-deeper\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget breaking news \u2013 Unherd.com plans to dive deeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>A new London-based online news service, headed up by former Times Columnist, Tim Montgomerie, will not chase breaking news because it believes \u201cthe latest things are rarely the most important\u201d.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unherd.com, will instead allow it\u2019s journalists to spend more time \u201cto dive deeply into their subject areas\u201d and \u201cchallenge out-of-date, incorrect and even dangerous thinking\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the soon-to-be-launched news site Montgomerie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressgazette.co.uk\/news-site-with-focus-on-global-thinking-and-movements-recruiting-journalists-before-launch\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>told journalists<\/u><\/a>: \u201cUnherd won\u2019t be following hourly, daily or even weekly developments closely. We\u2019ll be using the skills of the journalists we employ to understand the five big topics we aim to focus upon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will\u00a0largely\u00a0be looking upstream at what is coming at us all \u2013 rather than at what is happening yesterday and today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Montgomerie insists that the website will not focus on UK, US or any other nation\u2019s specific news but instead allow journalists to cover global movements in politics, economics, technology, religion and the media.<\/p>\n<p>According to Montgomerie, Unherd.com has the financial backing to see the fledging news site develop over the next four years while focusing on its core activities. Investors in the site include Paul Marshall, the founder of one of Europe\u2019s largest hedge fund groups and Theodore Agnew, a highly successful businessman, philanthropist and Conservative Party donor.<\/p>\n<p>Despite such high-profile backers, Montgomerie is however keen to highlight the site will be built on solid business principals, telling journalists that the team behind the site has identified \u201cmore than a dozen funding streams\u201d. Unherd.com hopes to be completely self-funding by its fifth year of operation.<\/p>\n<p>Unherd.com will employ the equivalent of 12 to 15 full-time journalists when it launches.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its vow to \u201cdive deep\u201d into the news, its <a href=\"http:\/\/unherd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>recruitment drive<\/u><\/a>\u00a0isn\u2019t looking for longwinded hacks. Alongside the standard application process, aspiring Unherd.com journalists must submit \u201ca one paragraph statement of no more than 150 words identifying the most dangerous consensus that you think exists in the world today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new London-based online news service, headed up by former Times Columnist, Tim Montgomerie, will not chase breaking news because it believes \u201cthe latest things are rarely the most important\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":102295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,3729],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102292"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102294,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102292\/revisions\/102294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}