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In a Medium article published October 10, 2018, Civil Founder Matthew Iles discusses the current state of the Civil Token Sale in The Civil Token Sale’s Eleventh Hour. ICO Not Performing As Expected The Civil project looks to be the answer that journalism desperately needs in a digital age. The tokenized business model hopes to incentivize high quality and ethical…

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Business media giant Forbes has partnered with Civil, a blockchain-based firm, with the intention of using a decentralized network to publish content, the company’s co-founder Matt Coolidge announced in a press release on October 9, 2018. Forbes Becomes the First Major News Organization That Embraced Civil Civil, an Ethereum-based platform that promises a comprehensive solution to create a decentralized marketplace…

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Having successfully launched its PUBLISH protocol in September 2018, TokenPost, one of the top DLT and cryptocurrency based media outlets, is determined to outdo itself once again, this time with the help of “PUBLISH Alliance” – a non-profit decentralized platform, launched to connect media enterprises, academic bodies and tech start-ups to PUBLISH-related initiatives. The announcement was made on TokenPost’s official…

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Manoush Zomorodi, a former host to the WNYC technology podcast “Note To Self” and Jen Poyant, the executive producer of the WNYC show, have recently teamed up to create a podcast called ZigZag. According to an article published by The New York Times on September 18, 2018, the purpose of ZigZag is to spread the word about blockchain technology, entrepreneurship,…

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Associated Press, a New York-based not-for-profit news agency, has joined forces with Civil (CVL), the distributed ledger technology project focused on the journalism industry, to offer partners blockchain-based content licensing, according to a news release by Civil on August 28, 2018. AP-Civil Blockchain-Powered Content Licensing As stated in a Medium blog post by the Civil team, the collaboration with Associated Press…

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To understand this question, one must understand the current issues with journalism. The problems with journalism have never changed much. Governments, corporations, and powerful have controlled the world of journalism. The widespread lack of transparency, accountability, and in some instances, the use of censorship, or threats towards journalists to prevent their work from being published. It is indeed a dog-eat-dog…

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Vivian Schiller, a former media executive at NBC News, NYTimes, has been appointed as the inaugural CEO of the Civil Foundation, an independent, third-party organization responsible for working with the community on the evolution of the Civil Constitution and Civil’s self-governance model. Responsible Journalism on the Blockchain The Civil Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization that works with Civil, a decentralized…

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