With ABC killing 538 I wonder if a 404 Media like replacement would be viable. I’m thinking small seed round to get off the ground, majority worker owned coop, with subscription funding for detailed data and analysis but free top level chart. I could see going in on that… #uspoli #journalism #coop

Now that you are grieving about #JeffBezos & the #WashingtonPost:

How about taking the opportunity to start a #reader-owned #newspaper #cooperative or an #audience-owned #media cooperative!?

Plenty of examples exist; several of them in #Germany alone.

I'd very much be interested to partake.

🏷️ #WaPo #Bezos #AllThePresidentsMen #JonathanCapeheart #BobWoodward #CarlBernstein #Watergate #Nixon #Trump #MAGA #HowFascismWorks #Amazon #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #Musk #Zuckerberg #Distributism #Coop

#Journalism is hard.

Publishing a #newspaper is even harder.

We don't get everything right @thegazettecoop.

But the one thing we do well? We listen.

Every complaint, every comment, every suggestion – it makes the newspaper stronger. That's the beauty of being a #coop.

We might not have the capacity to cover every story. But the stories we do publish have the community at the heart of them. We stepped up to hold power to account, when no-one else was willing.

Onwards and upwards.

#media

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I’ve been impressed by the quality of the writing so far. It’s clear writers have a ton of room to create as they see fit when writing their pieces

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#coop #Journalism

I regularly run into people who struggle with housing and meeting basic needs of survival.

LGBTQ+ BIPoC disproportionately face unemployment, under employment, food insecurity, living with unstable housing or are chronically unhoused.

Yet every time I ask to discuss cooperative strategies I'm either ghosted or attacked personally.

That makes sense among those who believe in class competition, that dog eat dog capitalism defines life, but I often face off with people who promote themselves as advocates for Anarchism and or Marxist/Leninists Communism.

They frequently attack with easy to disprove claims, often identical to Faux Free Market Capitalists — that Co-operatives:
• have been "proven" not to work,
• steal support from "real" activism,
• are popular with hipsters who extract while contributing nothing to local communities,
• only create a few low paying jobs with no benefits before failing and leaving communities worse than before.
#BlackMastodon, #LGBTQ, #Trans, #SolidarityEconomics, #COOP

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#coOp, #journalism,

Anyone know anything about Roostrent?

https://roostrent.com/

Seems lime a housing coop accelerator in the UK. But basically no info out there.

#coop #housing #housingcoop #london #uk

Say you wanted to spin up an internationalist, remote-first, tech-worker collective, but then you think about bureaucracy and The Fear stops you in your tracks.

Is there a procedural, flow-chart like resource out there?

#FLOSS #workercollective #coop #fedihire