Coda Media is a
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-based online crisis reporting news platform, headed by Natalia Antelava, a former
BBC correspondent, and Ilan Greenberg, a magazine and newspaper writer who served as a staff reporter for ''
The Wall Street Journal''.
Peter Pomerantsev, a
British journalist and TV producer, serves as the
editor-at-large
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.
Concept
Coda deploys a team of journalists to report on an ongoing crisis.
Unlike traditional media outlets, Coda's journalists stay focused on a specific story for up to a year in order to put "individual stories in the context of larger events." Coda has covered three crises thus far; the
migrant crisis in Europe,
LGBT rights in Russia, and
disinformation campaigns across
Eurasia.
The
start-up
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employs a team of reporters, editors, and designers in the
United States,
Georgia, and
Russia. Coda is attempting to bring together reporters from different news outlets to work on and develop stories together.
Coda's reporting is accessible on the Coda Story website.
Coda is focused on "original storytelling."
Coda divides its different reporting focuses into "currents," such as a disinformation current. The start-up plans to eventually have different "Codas" for different crises.
Funding
Coda Media is a
non-profit organization and depends on large foundation grants for the majority of its revenue. Coda Media has partnered with several newsrooms throughout Eurasia via the Coda Network, which received a grant of $180,130 from the US Government-backed
National Endowment for Democracy.
Coda is a
501(c)(3) organization
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with offices in
New York City and
Tbilisi,
Republic of Georgia. Coda is supported by foundation grants and private donations and has also experimented with
crowd-funding.
Awards
In 2018, Coda Story and Reveal won the
Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award
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for their collaborative radio documentary "Russia's New Scapegoats", which explores the human costs as well as the political reasons behind the Kremlin's war on gay people.
In 2014, Coda won the Best Startups for News competition from the
Global Editors Network. Coda was a finalist for the 2016 Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling for a Small Newsroom Award for its project, "Permission to Exterminate: Terror in Central Asia."
Partners
* ''
The Guardian''
*
EurasiaNet
*
Magnum Photos
* Reveal from the
Center for Investigative Reporting
* World Policy Institute
* Spektr.press
*
Ukrayinska Pravda
*
Hetq Online
* blog ''The Interpreter''
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