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From the announcement :

Start.coop was recently awarded a prestigious grant from the Press Forward coalition.

Press Forward is a national coalition of foundations investing more than $500 million to strengthen local newsrooms, close longstanding gaps in journalism coverage, advance public policy that expands access to local news, and scale the infrastructure the sector needs to thrive.

Start.coop will use the grant to launch a Shared Media Services hub to help independent, worker-friendly media organizations save money on back-office services and save time through shared training, tools, and best practices.

The new initiative answers the calls of struggling local news outlets, grassroots media organizations, and journalists who want more efficient back-office operational systems, allowing them to spend more time pursuing their core mission: getting information to their communities.

Start.coop is the nation’s only accelerator for shared ownership, and a systems change catalyst committed to building a more equitable and resilient U.S. economy that shares prosperity among the many, not just the few.

This project was developed in partnership with Defector Media, a worker-owned journalism company that has become a model for journalists wishing to escape ongoing corporatization of the news and information sector. The Media Economies Design Lab at the 91¸£ÀûÉç will inform the project with research grounded in its experience helping to develop cooperatives in journalism and beyond. Other project partners include the Freelance Solidarity Project, the National Writers Union, the NewsGuild, the Community and the Worker Ownership Project at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.