Ernst-Jan Pfauth Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam, Nh, Nl

Netherlands

Alexander Klöpping and I have been producing POM, our weekly podcast about media and technology, since 2016. In 2022, we added "Jonge Jaren" (The Days of Yore) and "Goed Verhaal" (Great Story) to our repertoire. In 2023, we started a publishing company called POM.press. Our first book is the Dutch version of NY Times-reporter Kashmir Hill's book on facial recognition: Your Face Belongs to Us.

Netherlands

Every other Monday, I wrote a media and technology column for Dutch quality daily NRC's media section. The section folded early 2023.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

After serving as publisher of De Correspondent for almost six years, I became its CEO in January 2019.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

De Correspondent is a Dutch ad-free journalism platform with 62,000 subscribers who pay 70 euros per year. It launched in 2013, after raising $1.7 million with a world-record breaking crowdfunding campaign. I'm one of the four cofounders and focused on company growth.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

News leaves us cynical, divided, and less informed. The Correspondent was a movement for unbreaking news, changing what news is about, how it’s made, and how it’s funded. After raising 2.6 million in a crowdfunding campaign, The Correspondent published transnational journalism with correspondents from five different continents.

Rotterdam Area, Netherlands

Responsible for all digital outlets of NRC Media: nrc.nl, nrcnext.nl and associated apps. Created a startup within the company by having developers, journalists, designers and data analists in the same room, most of whom I hired myself. We managed to triple our traffic in one year and went from a $1.2 million loss to breaking even. I also wrote a weekly print column about the influence of technology on our daily lives.

Rotterdam Area, Netherlands

Hired to set up and edit a blog for Dutch millennial daily nrc.next, which had a very successful print edition but virtually no online presence. Started nrcnext.nl and social media accounts, and trained print journalists to share behind-the-scenes stories and engage in constructive discussions with readers. We won a Dutch Blogging Award for both Best News Blog and Best Blog in 2009.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

The Next Web organized a spectacular tech conference every year and wanted to keep the conversation going after every edition. So they hired me to set up a blog and write about technology from a European perspective. I set up a correspondent’s network around Europe and we produced around five posts of original reporting daily. Before leaving for nrc.next, I trained an incredibly talented editor, and The Next Web is now in the top ten of most-read tech blogs world-wide.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Recruited by the Associate Professor of Social Psychology to teach the course to two study groups of 25 freshmen. This involved live influence experiments in class, which was very challenging. Still use these experiences on a daily basis.

Greater New York City Area

Inter Press Service is a non-profit press agency that wants to be an alternative to Western press agencies. Interned at their United Nations bureau at UN headquarters for four months. They extended me a tremendous amount of trust, and I was able to interview high-ranking officials at the World Bank and the UNHCR. The bureau chief stated in my evaluation that I 'have the potential to be an excellent journalist'.