Perhaps patient capital could be a way to start more user-owned co-ops for media services - both broadcast ("news") and networked ("social")? Co-ops have been working in one or the other for decades (eg New Internationalist and Positive News, Loomio and Meet.coop). But what about cooperatives that deliver both information and tech to owner-members, with the tech business cross-subsidizing the work of journalists?

https://ioo.coop/2020/04/investor-owned-vs-user-owned-platforms/

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