The Former Deadspin People Explain How to Launch a Worker-Owned Media Co-op That Might Succeed

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For the past five years, the media industry has been on a unionizing spree. This wave of worker empowerment—combined with the industry’s regular waves of layoffs, folding publications, and management shenanigans—have led many people to pine for the next evolution: Worker-owned media co-ops.

Read more at http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/22688/deadspin-worker-owned-media-co-op-defector/

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