Blockchain journalism startup Civil is shutting down following its failure to find substitute financing after losing its major source of funding, ConsenSys
Lessons from a failed startup: The high-profile, blockchain-backed attempt to nurture nascent digital news sites is shutting down.” https://www.poynter.org/... The company seeded The Colorado Sun w/ a...
Civil, which began with the intent to launch dozens of sites supported by a blockchain-based platform and the CVL token, fell short of fixing media funding woes
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Civil to launch its blockchain on March 6 with individual and newsroom memberships and the ability to buy CVL tokens accessible via Civil's website
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Current and former employees of news orgs sponsored by the blockchain startup Civil say they haven't received the compensation they were promised when hired
Civil was supposed to create a more transparent and democratic model for journalism. But so far, journalists working on its platform …
Blockchain-powered network Civil's token sale failed because people buy into blockchain to make money and don't necessarily want to use it to “fix” journalism
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Blockchain-powered network Civil's token sale failed because people buy into blockchain to make money and don't necessarily want to use it to “fix” journalism
Hype around the technology has led to incomprehensible applications of it. — Civil Media Company was introduced earlier …
Journalism blockchain network Civil says the sale of its CVL token fails to hit $8M goal, buyers will be offered full refunds, and another token sale in works
and then another sale Matthew Beedham / The Next Web : ICO of blockchain platform that wanted to ‘fix’ journalism fails Corin Faife / BREAKER : ConsenSys Will Pick Up the Tab for Civil's Newsrooms in ...
Forbes partners with journalism blockchain network Civil to become the first major media company to experiment with publishing stories to the blockchain
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Forbes partners with journalism blockchain network Civil to become the first major media company to experiment with publishing stories to the blockchain
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Sources: media startup Tech In Asia, which runs a blog and events business in Southeast Asia, laid off a third of its staff in July after canceling planned ICO
in the end it canceled those plans, made layoffs to streamline costs and launched a subscription business. Media is a tough business. https://techcrunch.com/... Jon Russell / @jonrussell : Tech In Asi...