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OK, friends - assistance please! Are there any groups that support or foster #cooperatives / #coops that I should add to this list? LMK! bsky.app/profile/medi...

Some excellent details in the @niemanlab.org piece, such as these two. Interesting to see things we know happen in lots of other countries - people giving cash as and when they can as a show of solidarity, for example - happening in the US too. And the student story is amazing.

As ever the contrast with the scale of the scene in the US is stark, as this @niemanlab.org piece shows. It‘s a good and detailed piece, but it’s sobering to see the financial figures that #mediacoops in the US are raising vs anywhere else (except e.g. @taz.de) www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/jour...

I’m not aware of any significant structured programmes that are looking to do that - please let me know here or at @mediacoops.bsky.social of any schemes or funders doing this in this domain. Or if there are any schemes within the #cooperatives movement that have included #mediacoops…. 3/n

It’s long felt to me that, given access to sustained financial & business support, the #mediacoops field in the UK & Europe has levels of growth within it, and can make a huge contribution to #journalism, media diversity, healthier information environments, especially locally. 2/n

I’ve followed #mediacoops in the UK & Europe for >10 years, from Dave Boyle’s Good News report, through the start of @thebristolcable.bsky.social & @theferret.scot, @mcrmeteor.bsky.social etc. There’s a rich history, research, lots of learnings (I’ve long tracked some @mediacoops.bsky.social) 1/n

Is working in #mediacoops utopian? A view from @niemanlab.org: bsky.app/profile/niem...

@beehiiv.com is there someone I (@sdp.bsky.social) can talk to about Media Collective?

HERE WE GO! #mediacoops

Of relevance to #mediacoops in the UK… Cc @theferret.scot @thebristolcable.bsky.social @mcrmeteor.bsky.social @newint.bsky.social et al

#mediacoops in the USA 👇🏾 bsky.app/profile/ryan...

@thebristolcable.bsky.social’s latest edition: “Across the nation, far-right anti-migrant narratives amplified by the heritage media are fuelling hatred and misinformation. (Ctd)” thebristolcable.org/2025/08/bris... #bristol #solidarity #cities #journalism #mediacoops #migration

Interesting story on fan / #cooperative ownership in French #football (from @philippeauclair.bsky.social) www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Interesting… @latimes.com to “go public”… www.instagram.com/reel/DMa5aDb...

It’s our 10th birthday 🎂 Ten years ago, a few of us sat round a kitchen table in Edinburgh, sharing carrot sticks, burnt pizza and a belief that Scotland needed fearless, independent investigative journalism. We called it The Ferret 🧵

Hello media co-op friends! I'd love to know if you know of any current/contemporary guides or courses or advisory services, from any country or language, to setting up and running #mediacoops specifically. All pointers much appreciated... #cooperatives

Fellow media co-op watchers and doers: Is there any value to building a guide (that can be localised) on #mediacoops? I’ve seen flurries of activity around this in the past, & I am sure the US has plenty of stuff on this, but for elsewhere around the world? Existing examples?

Delighted to discover (or hopefully re-discover) that @investigate-eu.bsky.social is a "charitable, non-profit European Cooperative Society, owned by its team"... www.investigate-europe.eu/funding #mediacoops

Curious to see @subvert.fm how progresses as a co-operatively-owned alt to @bandcamp.com: subvert.fm #cooperatives #mediacoops #music

One of the rival bids for the #Observer has offered to give a stake in the business to staff. No word on whether @theguardian.com #ScottTrust will entertain the bid as would be usual. Here @mazzucatom.bsky.social suggests @theguardian.com and #Observer practice stakeholder capitalism… #mediacoops

(Sorry for the interruption in service on all things #mediacoops - more soon, I hope!)

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#mediacoops #France This is exciting as an initiative - long-mooted, now happening, it seems: Medias-coop.org

This is a good (and fairly international) list of #cooperative related orgs and businesses.

VoxEurop is “first European press cooperative, #Voxeurop is owned by its readers as well as its journalists, translators, partners and founders.” voxeurop.eu/en/becoming-... #mediacoops #europe

Good to see the @thebarentsobserver.com still going strong! #mediacoops

The 2014 paper by @annamaris.bsky.social doesn’t seem to be online or accessible at @waybackmachine.bsky.social… The media co-operative Fria Tidningar in #Sweden wound down pre-Covid, I think the last title shut down in 2019 or so, but the site remains: www.fria.nu/omfria #mediacoops

Linkrot means that the FADICCRA site is no longer active, but some stuff on #mediacoops in #Argentina remains here: trabajocooperativo.com.ar/temas/fadicc... And they’re definitely still operating: cgcym.org.ar/cgcym-y-fadi...

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This, written by Dave Boyle in 2012, was a landmark publication on how a media co-operative could work in the UK: www.uk.coop/sites/defaul... #mediacoops #journalism

The #DataHarvest 2025 call for proposals is open - you have till Jan 19, 2025 to get your session proposals in. More details: dataharvest.eu/2024/11/15/d... #journalism #festivals #conferences #europe

This is really fascinating. Vik, P. M., & Wallace, A. (2022). The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on British #creditunions and community lenders. Journal of Co-operative Studies, 55(2), 29-34. doi.org/10.61869/ZMS...

Paydirt for scholars or students of #mediacoops - here’s the Journal of #Cooperative Studies edition on #journalism and co-ops. Several #research articles on the history and present of co-ops in the news sector: www.ukscs.coop/resources/jo...

Interesting research on #cooperatives in the cultural and tech sectors (the Journal of Cooperative Studies): www.ukscs.coop/pages/journa...

Great paper on #cooperatives & #journalism in #Greece by Eugenia Siapera & Lambrini Papadopoulou (sadly TF & $$$) www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... #mediacoops

“Autonomy is a huge part of job satisfaction, but autonomy when you don’t have a financial model in place is concerning. I don’t think my journalism students will adopt this model. They won’t work 60 hours and be paid for 40 … They have a stronger sense of a work-life balance.” #mediacoops

Always exciting to see the launch of another writer-owned media cooperative. In this case, it's a weekly publication focused on science reporting. www.niemanlab.org/2024/03/sequ...

The cooperative media: independent, transparent and democratic

🎙️ New podcast episode! We speak with Bram Souffreau, co-founder of independent Belgian newsroom @apachebe.bsky.social. Bram explains their transformation from blog into major investigative journalism cooperative, supported by 2000 members and 5000 subscribers. referencecircle.eu/the-loop-pod...

PSA: Please encourage your #journalism, #independentmedia, #investigativejournalism partners and allies around the world to join here… (And funders, philanthropies etc.)

Over at the other place, I had accumulated some pretty useful lists, including the media featured in these and following screenshots - I’ll try to recreate as a Starter Pack of #mediacoops in due course:

Not a #mediacoop for once, but a #footballcoop - #cooperative FCG intends to buy a European #football club (cc @CDEccleshare @Okwonga @KuperSimon) https://footballclubgroup.com/

How #techcoop @outlandish uses #sociocracy for decision-making: https://outlandish.com/blog/co-operatives/how-sociocracy-might-benefit-your-organisation/

May be of interest to #mediacoops and #cooperatives exploring Mastodon: https://social.coop/about

Exciting to see the birth of a new media co-op in #Leicester, with the @thegazettecoop - their crowdfunding campaign is here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/great-central-gazette/rewards#start#Leicester #mediacoops

London’s exceptional @NTSlive is based in a co-operative building, @hackneycoops: https://hced.co.uk/tenants/nts

Of note to #mediacoops, from @ECF_tweets: https://culturalfoundation.eu/stories/cosround4_autonomiccooperative

Session recordings beginning to go up from the 2021 @platformcoop conference, of interest to #cooperative aficionados: https://platform.coop/events/conference2021/