The Unmakers: Austin Mackell of Stone – using technology to improve journalism transparency

In today’s episode of The Unmakers, Tim Burrowes talks to Austin Mackell, CEO of Write In Stone.

A foreign correspondent for much of his career, Austin now leads a team building the Stone transparency platform.

The platform allows journalists to capture every stage of their research so that readers can see how an article was put together.

Write In Stone is seeking investment of around half a million dollars, valuing the company at $5m. As you’ll hear, the conversation takes an unexpected turn when Mackell informs me: “Fuck the investors.” Later, he explains what he means by that.