Economy
A Shuttered Chicago News Outlet Reboots—With Blockchain
DNAInfo has now returned as Block Club Chicago, a neighborhood news platform run on blockchain technology.
In November, 2017, Joe Ricketts, the billionaire owner of various local news outlets around the country, shut them all down—just a week after the employees of one site voted to join a union.
But now, from the ashes of one of those local news outlets—DNAinfo Chicago—a new non-profit neighborhood news website with the same mission has emerged. And it’s powered by blockchain technology.