It’s going to take a bit of time. Please bear with me through the process.
🔺 Publicly traded
🔺💲 Publicly traded but mostly privately owned
💲 Privately owned
🔷 Non for profit and/or trust ran by board of directors (Note: I suggest taking a long look at who the board of directors are, especially AP and NPR)
- British Broadcasting Company (BBC)
- Associated Press (AP)
- Mother Jones
- National Public Radio (NPR)
- The Guardian
There are a lot of Brits running a lot of American (or thought to be American) media groups, I’m going to include quite a few British publications. There is also an American on the BBC board.
🔷 Associated Press
◾ The Associated Press is governed by an elected board of directors. It is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association, and produces news reports that are distributed to its members, major U.S. daily newspapers and radio and television broadcasters.
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◾ CEO is Daisy Veerasingham
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◾ Board of Directors
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They are setting up a non-profit to get cash for local news now. They say this like it’s a great thing. It could be, but I doubt it. https://www.axios.com/2024/06/25/ap-local-news-nonprofit-journalism