Buy local newspapers. Give them editorial control. Then leave them alone.

Sounds good but it would still be hard to get many people to read them, myself included.

Maybe even mandate that they have usable UIs and minimally invasive advertising

I thought about that too, but I can’t figure out how to tell them they have full editorial control… In our capitalist system, the idea of losing that funding is coercive in and of itself. Even if I‘d have a water tight contract, they probably don’t have the resources to check that before signing.

Fuck yes

Yes. And if you're a billionaire, you should be comfortable hemorrhaging money on them.

employee-owned B corporations

My idea is to have an endowment that endows 1 new non-profit media organization per year... forever.

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Oh no we would be bidding against one another for the same purpose.

Honestly a great idea. What I'd add is a cadre of critics tasked with assessing their fealty to the truth, and making clear the papers' staffs change when they ignore it.