This sounds promising: Newscatalyst and LION Publishers are working to bootstrap hundreds of local, independent newsrooms across the country. They’ll share infrastructure, which will lower the cost on necessities like libel insurance, legal assistance, and accounting, as well as technical infrastructure (“a super scalable publishing platform”).

Our mission is to help bring equity into the news and information ecosystem by democratizing the process of starting sustainable local news businesses and supporting people who have been historically excluded from media and media ownership.

I just love the call-to-action on their website — “Start a newsroom”