Anecdote regarding news media: I donate monthly to the national newspaper Shakuf, run by a non-profit and funded exclusively by small donors like me, nicknamed “publishers” (and is ad-free). It’s not a cooperative per se, but big decisions are decided by majority vote among those publishers; Decisions like “should we merge with this other news org” or “Which area should the new reporter cover”. It works pretty well and I think publishers are happy! As an example, we did merge with that other org, which required recruiting thousands more publishers in order for it to transition to the same model—and those indeed came.
Anecdote regarding news media: I donate monthly to the national newspaper Shakuf, run by a non-profit and funded exclusively by small donors like me, nicknamed “publishers” (and is ad-free). It’s not a cooperative per se, but big decisions are decided by majority vote among those publishers; Decisions like “should we merge with this other news org” or “Which area should the new reporter cover”. It works pretty well and I think publishers are happy! As an example, we did merge with that other org, which required recruiting thousands more publishers in order for it to transition to the same model—and those indeed came.