Republik

Zurich, 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, rather than a monthly subscription, become members of Project R, the cooperative behind it. Pick it for long, carefully edited reporting and essays on Swiss politics and society, and as the leading example of a reader cooperative built from scratch in the digital era rather than rescued from an old paper.