KRIK's journalists spend weeks on a single investigation into business ties, criminal connections and corruption in Serbia. The story publishes, and within minutes it has been rewritten, summarised or copied outright across a dozen other outlets, most of which contributed nothing to it.
The reporting still reaches the public, but the audience, and the traffic, largely doesn't reach KRIK.
Push notifications as the fix
KRIK's mobile app closes that gap. When a story publishes, a push notification puts it on the phones of readers who have chosen to follow KRIK directly - before the aggregators, before the rewrites, before the story becomes a headline on someone else's homepage.
It's a simple mechanism doing something structural: it turns an audience that was reachable only through platforms and search into an audience KRIK owns and can reach on its own terms. For a newsroom whose competitive advantage is the work itself, arriving first is the difference between the investigation building a readership and the investigation building someone else's.
Built for reading
Beyond delivery, the app is built for the kind of reading investigative journalism actually requires. Long-form pieces, clear navigation between related stories, and an interface that doesn't fight the reader on a story that takes fifteen minutes to get through.
KRIK is a member of OCCRP and collaborates with investigative journalists worldwide, which means the app also has to carry work produced as part of cross-border projects, not just domestic reporting.
The platform behind it
KRIK's app runs on our publisher platform: native iOS and Android apps, content managed through mPanel CMS alongside the website, with push notifications sent from the same system an editor already works in. Publishing a story and notifying the audience is one action, not two which matters when the whole point is speed.
Try it
The KRIK app is available on Google Play and the App Store.