There is a long tail of blogs, podcasts, and independent authors now, no longer beholden to corporate interests (or not as much.) I find a rich selection of everything these days -- and if you subscribe the $ mostly goes directly to the author (e.g., with substack) which is awesome.

The Guardian is published by a charitable trust of which their most highly regarded journalists become trustees

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Trust_Limited

Yes, but you wouldn't know it by how Google ranks news websites.

Not really. This is the core problem with a lot of issues these days.

Yes. There are worker-owned media outlets.

The British, Canadian and Australian Broadcasting Corporations.

NPR and PBS in the US.

NPR? It's a non-profit.

4chan?

Moot was at least a millionaire, and the current owner Hiroyuki Nishimura's wikipedia page[0] doesn't make him seem likely to be poor.

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

Moot might have been a millionaire after selling it, but it never sounded like 4chan was making him money. He was still living with his parents, and paying for the lawsuits was very expensive.