Coops, benefit corporations (B-corps) and journalist-owned LLCs are just some of the ownership structures that local journalism businesses are trying to keep them closer to the communities that they serve. These locally-owned news organisations are also attracting cash from local impact investors.

It's a counter-point to a study that finds that journalists at small newspapers in the US see a bleak future.

PLUS Why does Sweden lead the world in podcast listeners? Facebook went down and traffic to news sites actually went up. As my friend Tinworth says, that surplus attention had to go somewhere, or Facebook as an attention sponge, to borrow his phrase. Aussies don't trust TikTok.

How Creative Ownership Structures Can Help Local News Publishers Stay Local | by Mark Glaser | Trust, Media and Democracy | Oct, 2021 | Medium — medium.com

More publishers are trying out public benefit corporations, journalist-owned LLCs and cooperatives to tie publications closer to communities. For years, American communities have made heroic efforts…

Why is Sweden the world leader in podcast listening? | What’s New in Publishing | Digital Publishing News — whatsnewinpublishing.com

There are a few countries sitting at the top of the podcast listening ladder, but Sweden provides some useful insights in what has been driving the podcast revolution A few days earlier Statista, the German market and consumer data firm, released a report titled Where Podcasts Are Most Popular. Sweden topped the list of 54 countries …

Local news blues: The employees of small newspapers see a bleak future, this survey says » Nieman Journalism Lab — www.niemanlab.org

"Our readers are old, older, and oldest."

When Facebook went down last week, traffic to news sites went up » Nieman Journalism Lab — www.niemanlab.org

On August 3, 2018, Facebook went down for 45 minutes. That's a little baby outage compared to the one this week, when, on October 4, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were down for more than five hours. Three years ago, the 45-minute Facebook break was enough to get people to go read news elsewhere…

CEO interview: B2B without paywalls, how Industry Dive grew into $80m 'journalism-first' business - Press Gazette — www.pressgazette.co.uk

Press Gazette has been reporting on British journalism without fear or favour since 1965. Our mission is to provide a news and information service which helps the UK journalism.

Aussies Don’t Trust TikTok

Research finds TikTok the 'most untrustworthy social media platform', as users jump 81% in Aus — mumbrella.com.au

Research by Toluna, a consumer intelligence platform, that shows TikTok being the most “untrustworthy platform” in Australia.The research, which surveyed 1,063 Australians between 9-11 August 2021, showed varying levels of trust between companies, and that Australians are willing to give up some of their personal information in exchange for loyalty rewards, for entertainment purposes, or […]