This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss getting inspired and how things get prioritized.
SAM: We’re very short staffed this week (all is well; Joe is taking some much-deserved time off and Emanuel has been on paternity leave, which he’ll address in length soon) so please forgive the slightly slow week, but I still think we got some great stories out. Due to the aforementioned short staffedness, this is going to be a quick one from me.
I was in beautiful Boulder earlier this week to hang out with the indie media journalists involved in the Start.Coop accelerator program. I don’t want to butcher their stated goals so you should just read about it on their site: “The Start.coop Accelerator for Worker-Friendly Media exists to address a critical gap in the media ecosystem: the lack of accessible support, capital pathways, and proven infrastructure for building worker-owned media companies. By focusing on cooperative ownership, the program advances a more equitable and resilient media economy—one where information, ownership, decision-making, and wealth are shared more broadly.”