Die Tageszeitung

Berlin, Germany (in German) The biggest proof that reader ownership scales. Since the early 1990s the whole publishing company has belonged to a cooperative, and by January 2026 it had more than 25,000 members. A share costs 500 euros, and each member gets one vote no matter how many shares they hold. The taz is a national left-leaning daily that stopped printing its weekday paper in October 2025 and now publishes those days digitally, which makes it a live case study in how a co-op handles the end of print.