News & Media

This week, workers and community supporters launched the Pittsburgh Progress, “a cooperative news organization, owned and democratically run by its workers and members… dedicated to looking out for, and telling the stories of, the working-class people who form the heart and soul of our diverse communities.”

For growing numbers of media companies, employee ownership offers journalistic freedom and job stability.

The Fediverse, as Jakob Sitter Midttun writes, is an ensemble of interconnected – yet independent –  free, open source social media platforms utilizing federated protocols to seamlessly integrate with one another.

What if rather than selling out, successful businesses became community assets that put ownership and governance in the hands of workers and even consumers? Could a startup become a means of building community wealth, economic justice, and accountability over our technology?

A co-founder of Means TV answers questions about their worker co-op.

The Valley Alliance of Worker Co-operatives has set up a revolving loan fund for their members.

The need for fiction writing and other media that includes cooperatives.