The Village
https://www.the-village.me/
Formerly a franchisee of the eponymous Russian website, The Village runs its editorial team independently and with its own priorities. It primarily covers lifestyle topics such as urban infrastructure, food, entrepreneurship, etc.
It focuses on telling human stories through strong characters to which its audience can relate, mostly young Belarusian urbanites, just like The Village's readers.
After the brutal crushing of the 2020 protests, The Village started to develop its news coverage capacity. From simple news reporting, it began to publish longer-form pieces, which, like the rest of its coverage, have a solid human, character-driven focus.
Last updated: February 2023
Location:
Minsk, Belarus
Year the organisation started publishing:
2017
Languages:
Type of coverage:
International
Countries of coverage:
Poland
Belarus
Ukraine
Other
Other countries of coverage:
Russia
Content
Type of content produced by theme:
Science
Entertainment and culture
Economy and business
Entrepreneurship
Education
Lifestyle
Environment
Politics
Health and well-being
Society and human rights
Technology
Journalism genres:
Chronicles and non-fiction
Essays
Interviews and reporting
Opinion
Narrative journalism
Satire
Reviews
Journalism coverage types and techniques:
Crowdsourcing
Solutions or constructive journalism
Engaged, community-driven or participatory journalism
Explanatory journalism
Cross-border journalism
Collaborative journalism
Tech platforms and other mediums used:
Website
Social media platforms
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
Primary tech platform or medium used to publish content:
Website
Audience and reach
Social media audience
Facebook number of followers:
8000
Twitter number of followers:
4766
Instagram number of followers:
22500
Management and team
Founders
Female:
None
Male:
None
Founders:
Directors:
Team
Full-time employees:
4
Business structure and revenue sources
Organisation tax status:
For-profit
The primary source of revenue reported by media leaders:
Grants
The second most important revenue source reported:
Advertising
Transparency
Doesn’t publish information about annual revenue
Doesn’t publish the names of donors
Doesn’t have an ethics policy / manual
Doesn’t have a data privacy policy
Doesn’t have a whistleblower policy
Doesn’t have a complaints policy
Doesn’t have a sexual harassment or institutional
violence policy
Is not signed up to a press regulator, trust
initiative, or part of a press association
Does not publish up to date information about its
team