Archive / Indymedia.org

Initiator(s)

Various Activists

Description

The Independent Media Center (IMC), established by various independent and alternative media organizations and activists, is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate journalism. Indymedia was founded as an alternative to government and corporate media, and seeks to facilitate people to publish news as directly as possible.

Location

Website – (the website is translated in English, Spanish, Greek French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Polish, Romanian, Hebrew and Arabic)

Goals

To empower people to use the media by presenting honest, accurate, powerful independent reports, to develop as much independent media as possible.

Beneficial outcomes

IMC collectives distribute print, audio, photo, video media and newswires, sites where anyone can publish news from their own perspective.

Maintained by

The creators, the users, private donors.

Users

Activists, Journalists, Politicians, Citizens

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