Materializing news services seems insurmountable without some umbrella organization of huge scale. For-profit news organizations seem to have a corporate DNA problem over time creating wide-ranging news coverage all the way down to the local level, in a co-op fashion, it’s just not in their genes to monitor pan-news services.

To create some national sized Co-op news service beast, affectionately called Franken-news here, might be some combination of a revisualized BBC-North- America, C-Span, Chalkbeat organizations (in their own news subject silos) with regional editors for selected national pieces and local story source promotions. Libraries services from wiki organizations under the Wikimedia umbrella that currently have somewhat vague relationships with troubled startups e.g. WikiTribune. No problem, right? Just plug it in, and it runs itself. Slightly facetious here, but a national size news network is hard to emulate or exist as a bottom-up organization in a for-profit country, even when putting aside all discussions regarding existing corporate welfare schemes elsewhere for now.

I’m saying at some point these Chalkbeat like organizations, to thrive, will need some kind of structural Co-op Glue that is much bigger than a diverse series of local efforts to cover the news.