This is not so crazy. The more I look, the more I find activists, lawyers, investors and entrepreneurs around the world who are exploring options along these lines, often while seeking to address some of the deep problems of internet culture. Community ownership could be a way of rooting out the abuses that we often see with the billion-dollar... See more

For newsrooms and funders, the takeaway is equally clear: this is a workable template: A creator with community trust + a newsroom with editorial rigor = journalism that reaches further and lands deeper.