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Indymedia Journalism

A Radical Way of Making, Selecting and Sharing News?

Sara Platon

University of Amsterdam sara{at}genderchangers.org

Mark Deuze

University of Amsterdam mark.deuze{at}reporters.net

In this article we describe the factors behind the Indymedia news model and analyse how these can be understood as being different from or similar to the production of content in corporate news media organizations. Using a series of in-depth interviews with Indymedia activists in and from different countries, we compare and analyse our findings with the help of theories of journalism, public or civic journalism, open source journalism and the concept of open publishing online. Our main question is whether mainstream corporate news media may be able to incorporate the principles and ideas of the online alternative media model Indymedia stands for. The answer to this question seems to be: `no'. Even though we see that Indymedia editorial teams often face the same problems as the ones faced by corporate news media, the ways of solving such problems by Indymedia activists are based on a radically different interpretation of journalistic ideology.

Key Words: alternative media • Indymedia • internet • journalism • online journalism

Journalism, Vol. 4, No. 3, 336-355 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/14648849030043005
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