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Recount Media
Short-form political news videos
- 21-100 employees
- B2C
- Digital Media
- Video
- Flatiron District, New York, NY
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Company mission
Recount Media's mission is to deliver high quality journalism that won't waste your time or insult your intelligence. They deliver news with sharp insights and analysis, curating just the right moments that illuminate the truth, provide shared context, and move the conversation forward.
-18% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
The Recount is a new media platform, which is largely based on video material. The site purports to offer exceptional journalistic standards, while also proclaims to hold the establishment to account. While the front page of The Recount is dominated by video content, the site also distributes a newsletter to subscribers.
Considering itself to be non-partisan, the media site promotes itself as cutting across the political divide in the United States. Recount Media has targeted non-traditional digital platforms effectively, since it was founded in 2019 by John Battelle and John Heilemann.
Positioning itself as taking a more no-nonsense approach than mainstream media and prevailing news channels, The Recount can be considered an alternative source of information. Its obvious rivals are YouTube channels and curation sites such as The Daily Beast.
The Recount currently has over 350,000 followers on Twitter, and has proven to be a popular platform.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2021
$18m
SERIES B
Mar 2020
$13m
SERIES A
Total funding: $31m
This company has top investors
Leadership
John Battelle
(CEO)Founded The Industry Standard, Federated Media in 2005. Later became Editor in Chief of NewCo for 6 years. Alongside serving as CEO of Recount Media, they are Chairman of Sovrn Holdings and Senior Research Scholar & Adjunct Professor at Columbia University.