Exit to Community: Industry-Wide Accountability

Thursday, August 27, 2020 [updated]
10-11:00 a.m. Mountain Time
Webinar

Video archive, collaborative notes

We hear about corporate social responsibility a lot, and the need for accountability in practice—not just in talk—is more important than ever. This webinar explores how broad-based ownership is being used to create more accountable economies. We’ll hear about decade of research on how corporate “multi-stakeholder initiatives” fail and why we need to rethink ownership from the ground up. We will also hear about the legacy of Associated Press, the cooperatively owned nonprofit news agency that was founded in 1846 and whose content reaches half the world’s population every day.

Speakers

• Amelia Evans (Executive Director, MSI Integrity)
• Jim Kennedy (Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning, Associated Press)

Resources

• Not Fit-for-Purpose: The Grant Experiment of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives in Corporate Accountability, Human Rights and Global Governance (MSI Integrity, 2020)
• Nathan Schneider, "The Associated Press is a joint media venture. Maybe Twitter should be too." America Magazine (April 21, 2017)

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