Reloading an old business model for new media

December 11, 2011
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Veteran journalist Tom Stites writes on the Nieman Blog that new digital media might be overlooking a venerable method of sustaining themselves — the cooperative. The cooperative is defined as a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit. Today we might call it crowd-funding. When the market fails […]

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African news service thrives as cooperative

June 11, 2011
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Justin Arenstein never really wanted to work for a big corporation, but that is how he started out in journalism. He was a reporter working on contract covering one of the desperately poor shantytowns of his native South Africa. He and his colleagues ran afoul of corporate management by covering the death squads that were […]

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