Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Feveb Marid, 11/22/24

Headline:  “The Promise of IndyMedia”

Subhead:  “Twenty-five years after its founding, a much-diminished community journalism organization may still offer a model for the future.”

After the Battle in Seattle in 1999 “. . . posts appeared on a website under the name IndyMedia, reaching more than a million people worldwide.”

“The site was intended to last only as long as the demonstrations. ‘The resistance is global,’ the opening post went. ‘The web dramatically alters the balance between multinational and activist media. With just a bit of coding and some cheap equipment, we can set up a live automated website that rivals the corporates.’ In the twenty-five years that followed, IndyMedia revealed the extent of that promise well beyond its early bloggers’ imaginations, as it grew into a full-fledged open publishing network of activist journalism, with some two hundred community centers and national and global online hubs.”

It still survives as this website:   https://indymedia.org/

https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/local-news-indymedia-network-25-anniversary.php