Items18The creator’s order
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The Bristol CableBristol, England
A group of volunteers launched the Cable in 2014 because they were tired of corporate-owned local media, and it is now an investigative media co-op owned by thousands of people in the city. Membership is pay-what-you-can, starting at roughly the price of a pint, and major…0 - 2
The Ferret (website)Scotland
The Ferret has published investigations since 2015 as a co-op owned by its members rather than by billionaires or corporations. Members do more than pay: they help decide what the newsroom investigates, which gives the ownership model a direct line into the editorial agenda. Expect slow,…0 - 3
The Meteor (Manchester)Greater Manchester, England
Small and local, The Meteor became a co-op in July 2019 and is registered as a Community Benefit Society, a legal form meant to serve a community rather than outside shareholders. It runs on a not-for-profit basis and writes for the people of Greater Manchester. It…0 - 4
Morning Star (British newspaper)Britain
The veteran of the list. Ownership of the old Daily Worker passed from the Communist Party of Great Britain to the People's Press Printing Society, a readers' co-op set up in 1945 with shares sold at £1, and the paper has been called the Morning Star since 1966. It remains Britain's…0 - 5
New InternationalistBritain, global coverage
A rare multi-stakeholder co-op: the magazine is owned jointly by its workers and roughly 4,600 reader co-owners, so neither group can run it alone. It has published in-depth commentary on global issues since 1973 and stays entirely independent of corporate owners. Choose…0 - 6
Positive NewsBritain
In 2015 Positive News asked readers to buy it, and a 30-day community share offer raised £263,422 from 1,525 people in 33 countries. The result is a co-op in which every owner has one vote however many shares they hold, and the owners elect the board. The journalism is solutions-focused:…0 - 7
Die TageszeitungBerlin, 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…0 - 8
KrautreporterGermany (in German)
Krautreporter began as a crowdfunded digital magazine in 2014 and later turned itself into a cooperative, so the outlet now belongs to its cooperative members. It carries no advertising and publishes explanatory, slower-paced pieces rather than breaking news. It is a useful…0 - 9
WOZ Die WochenzeitungZurich, Switzerland (in German)
The purest staff-run model here. Founded in 1981, the weekly is published by the infolink cooperative, whose highest governing body is the plenum of the people who work there, and everyone on staff is paid the same wage whatever the job. It is a left-wing national…0 - 10
RepublikZurich, Switzerland (in German)
Republik's own summary of its ownership is that it belongs to nobody, and a little bit to every member. The digital magazine launched in January 2018, carries no advertising at all and is financed by more than 30,000 subscribers. Readers who take out a membership,…0
