Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I've never felt the absence of the citizen journalism portal at Indymedia.org more than I have since I started hearing about the protests in LA.

When #Indymedia started, the focus was on providing a place where anyone could publish. But the key news media innovation was having both the open publishing newswire and the features column on one page. Giving us a quick overview of important events reported on the newswire, linked to sources so anyone could fact check them.

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Thanks to the emergence of the read/write web (as @lessig put it), it's now easier than it's ever been to publish your protest reporting on the web, including photos and videos. But in a age of corporate-funded influencers and bot-generated slop, it's never been harder to find trustworthy reportage in a timely fashion.

The collaboratively-edited, social movement news portal is the missing feature now. How can we (re-)build this for the 21st century information environment?

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