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One of the companies I worked for was an ESOP [0]. Has there ever been anything like that in terms of journalistic publications?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_Stock_Ownership_Plan

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I run a B2B media company called Payload and all our employees own equity in the company.

http://payloadspace.com/

Hopefully not since the shares tend to go to $0.

Though I’d note The Economist has staff and former staff as minority shareholders.

The place I was at paid a lot more than $0 per share. Is zero share value common for ESOPs?

What I mean is that a lot of traditional journalistic outfits have been teetering toward bankruptcy in recent years/decades.

While there are successes, the total size of the industry has been declining.

this was a direct consequence of Google and Facebook's predatory pricing. How is a hack on the bread line supposed to take on the Goliaths of Silicon Valley?

Are we talking ad pricing? Or some other pricing? How is it predatory?

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