Defector's Tom Ley thinks more people should experience worker-owned journalism.
cjr.org
Defector's Tom Ley thinks more people should experience worker-owned journalism.
The future of tech will be an old model: The co-op - Mutual Interest Media
Mutual Interest Mediamutualinterest.coop
Building and monetizing a niche business podcast while preserving creative freedom, scarcity, and avoiding growth-for-growth’s-sake incentives.
TRANSCRIPT
I think there's a bit of a cold start.
If you were to propose going and creating an acquired for sports, you would, the sort of risk I guess we took, we didn't think about it as risk at the time because it was just a hobby, was you're looking at years of no or little monetization. Right. Because it's going to take a long time to build up the
... See moreHis L.A.-based Podcast Company Faced a Crossroads. Now Jesse Thorn's Employees Are Owners
https://www.latimes.com/people/wendy-leelatimes.com
Recognizing the challenges that come with fundraising, the founders of The 51st, a local news site in Washington, D.C., opted for a different approach. Instead of creating a worker-owned cooperative, they established a worker self-directed nonprofit. Workers make up the board of the organization, and its nonprofit status allows it to raise money... See more