News Co-op Study Group Wiki

Please add entries with the following information: DATE [01/01/2000] — OUTLET — “HEADLINE.”

• 3/3/2021 — Nonprofit Quarterly — A New Business Model Emerges: Meet the Digital News Co-op
• 2/21/2021 — The Washington Post — Defector.com’s journalistic experiment began with a staff walkout. It might actually be working.
• 1/11/2021 — SF Public Press — San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper Becomes a Cooperative

• 11/24/2020 — 48 Hills — Bay View newspaper celebrates history — and a new era
• 11/16/2020 — Editor & Publisher — How Cooperative Buying Will Bring Cost Savings to Our Industry
• 11/1/2020 — Washington Monthly — “Own A Newspaper For $1 A Month.”
• 10/29/2020 — Digiday —‘All taking a chance on each other’: Jasper Wang on Defector Media’s collective ownership structure
• 10/22/2020 — Wired — “ClickHole Started as a Meat Joke. Can It Avoid Being Offal?”
• 10/5/2020 — Medium — “How to launch a thriving news cooperative in your city.”
• 10/1/2020 — Co-op News — “Can co-ops calm the social media storm?”
• 9/20/2020 — Co-op News — “Co-op journalism: the role of user-led and member-owned media.”
• 8/25/2020 — The New York Times — “A Media Pioneer Tries Again With a New Journalism Cooperative”
• 8/25/2020 — Sludge — “Introducing Brick House, a Co-Op Against the Wolves That Killed Your Favorite Websites”
• 8/17/2020 — Pro Bono News — “Now is our chance to build back better for regional Australia. Co-ops and mutuals can play a leading role”
• 7/30/2020 — In These Times — “The Former Deadspin People Explain How to Launch a Worker-Owned Media Co-op That Might Succeed”
• 5/14/2020 — IJ Net — “Quebec newsroom launches co-op to fend off bankruptcy”
• 4/14/2020 — The Guardian — “Means TV: inside the leftist, worker-owned streaming service”
• 2/26/2020 — Nieman Lab — “Maybe publisher cooperation is a path forward for news, but it shouldn’t be at the expense of public media”
• 2/21/2020 — Local News Lab — “Local Fix: Collaborative Convincing, Reddit, Co-ops”
• 2/6/2020 — Fifty by Fifty — Out of the ClickHole, a light on alternative media ownership models
• 2/3/2020 — Buzzfeed — Cards Against Humanity Bought Clickhole
• 1/27/2020 — Nieman Lab — “Can perennial hopes for local news co-ops ever turn into reality?”
• 1/9/2020 — Media Nation — “In Haverhill, WHAV lives — but a long-planned co-op for news folds up shop”
• 1/9/2020 — Resilience — “Community Newspaper Becomes Reader-Owned Cooperative”
• 1/7/20 — Knight Foundation — “5 Business Models for Local News to Watch in 2020”

• 12/23/2019 — Shareable — “See why this Akron alt-weekly publication is becoming a reader-owned media co-op”
• 12/19/2019 — Renaissance Journalism — “Renaissance Journalism supports study of media co-op to assist community news outlets”
• 11/1/2019 — WKSU — “Akron Devil Strip Becomes First US News Co-op”
• 8/28/2019 — Next City — “From Co-ops to Direct Public Offerings, Local News Outlets Get Creative To Stay Afloat”
• 7/11/2019 — The Lenfest Institute — “Why The Devil Strip, a local Ohio magazine, is becoming a community-owned co-op”
• 1/15/2019 — CICOPA — Hullabaloo Publishing Talks about Challenges Facing Canadian Media

• 9/13/2018 — Columbia Journalism Review — “Are media coops the business model of the future?”
• 3/23/2018 — Nonprofit Quarterly — “In Argentina, a Worker Co-op Media Model Emerges”
• 2/15/2018 — radioinfo — “Bourke community radio station saves iconic newspaper from closure”

• 11/3/2017 — Nieman Lab — “How this local news co-op gets its members interested: Getting them involved in the production of news”
• 10/24/2017 — Nieman Lab — “Maybe it is a purist attitude we have, but we believe that being funded by your readers is the best guarantee for independence”
• 4/21/2017 — America — “The Associated Press is a joint media venture. Maybe Twitter should be too.”
• 4/12/2017 — Journalism.co.uk — “Snapshots of 4 journalism co-operatives from around the world”
• 3/1/2017 — Co-op News — “Why did the New Internationalist change its legal structure?”

• 7/28/2016 — International Network of Street Papers — “Success of unique cooperative newspaper proves 'truth still sells' in Greece”

• 10/7/2015 — “A 20-year story of employee ownership comes to an end” — MediaReset

• 1/16/2014 — Nieman Lab — “Will 2014 be the year the Banyan Project finally takes flight?”

• 9/25/2013 — The Guardian — “Stop the press ... and make way for the co-op media”
• 5/1/2013 — Nieman Lab — “A community news co-op, aiming to build a replicable model, moves a step closer to reality”

• 12/9/2011 — Nieman Lab — Tom Stites: Might the new web journalism model be neither for-profit nor nonprofit?