Vivian Schiller has never owned cryptocurrency. The 57-year-old is about as far from a “bitcoin bro” as you can imagine. Having spent most of her career as a senior executive at media organisations including CNN, the New York Times and NBC News, she is, in her own words, a “dyed-in-the-wool cynical journalist”. So when she joined Civil, a blockchain-based platform that is selling its own currency to fund the future of journalism, I took notice.
維維安•席勒(Vivian Schiller)從未擁有加密貨幣。現年57歲的她與「比特幣碼農」可謂風馬牛不相及。她的大部分職業生涯都是在美國有線電視新聞網(CNN)、《紐約時報》(New York Times)以及美國全國廣播公司新聞部(NBC News)等媒體機構擔任高級管理人員,用她自己的話說,是一個「徹頭徹尾的憤世嫉俗的記者」。因此,當她加入Civil的時候,我注意到了——Civil是一個以區塊鏈爲基礎的平臺,正在發行自己的貨幣,籌集資金用於打造新聞業的未來。