Engaging Communities Through Cooperative Media Models

Over the past few years, several media in Europe chose the cooperative model to manage their projects. Collective decision-making, horizontal organisation, participatory management: this model reflects a desire to democratise practices within the European media landscape. But what is the reality behind it? How do cooperatives really work, and what added value can media structures find in adopting such legal structure? To answer these questions, three European cooperatives share their experiences with this model: the Belgian quarterly investigative magazine Médor and the self-managed Spanish media outlet El Salto.

co-curated with El Salto