Fetch Your News Union: The Power of Collective Action in Independent Media - TRENDS
The latest breaking news, comment and features from The Independent.Starmer’s last attempt at an essay, in 2021 – a 14,000-word doorstopper for the Fabian Society called “The Road Ahead” – was met with a collective raspberry. Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, projects like Indymedia understood that preserving their independence in the digital arena required them to develop their own solutions to produce and broadcast content. Népszabadság, a daily newspaper critical of the government, was taken over by a businessman with ties to the government and then closed.
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This project builds upon the successful ACX 2024 proposal to create a minimal viable product (MVP) of a software platform called Spartacus.app designed to solve collectiveaction dilemmas and coordination problems. Shadowbanning, suspension, DDoS attacks, and online content manipulation: independentnewsmedia is fighting a rise in attacks on internet freedom. Yet for decades, our news industry has abandoned those values in coverage of Israel and Palestine. Transmedia storytelling reflects the economics of media consolidation or what industry observers call "synergy." Modern media companies are horizontally integrated - that is, they hold interests across a range of what were once distinct media industries.
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