Editing Indymedia (section)

== Content and distribution ==
[[Image:Belgian Indymedia media centre.jpg|thumb|Belgian Indymedia's headquarters in [[Brussels]], Belgium]]
Indymedia is a website for [[citizen journalism]] that promotes activism and counters [[mainstream media]] news and commentary perspectives.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Haas |first1=Tanni |title=Do citizen-based media of communication advance public journalism's ideals? Evidence from the empirical research literature |journal=[[International Journal of Communication]] |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=7–21 |date=2007-07-01 |id={{gale|A172249382}} |language=English |issn=0975-640X |df=mdy-all }}</ref><!-- more to paraphrase in source --> Indymedia originated from protests against the concentrated ownership and perceived biases in corporate media reporting. The first Indymedia node, attached to the Seattle anti-corporate globalization protests, was seen by [[activists]] as an alternative news source to that of the corporate media, which they accused of only showing violence and confrontation, and portraying all protesters negatively.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19991223/A19991224010135/alternative-news-services-hourlong-wto-video-a-hit | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519093045/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19991223&slug=A19991224010135 | url-status=live | archive-date=2011-05-19 | work=The Seattle Times | title=Archives}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19991218&slug=3002212"Independent+Media+Center" | work=The Seattle Times | title=Archives | access-date=January 28, 2022 | archive-date=January 28, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128065633/https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19991218&slug=3002212%22Independent+Media+Center%22 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Media-center-fighting-FBI-over-Web-data-1054185.php | work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer | first1=Paul | last1=Shukovsky | title=Media center fighting FBI over Web data | date=August 5, 2001 | access-date=January 28, 2022 | archive-date=December 10, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210110529/https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Media-center-fighting-FBI-over-Web-data-1054185.php | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/19980_security24.shtml | work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer | first1=Paul | last1=Shukovsky | title=FBI raids media center | date=April 23, 2001 | access-date=August 11, 2009 | archive-date=January 28, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128065626/https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/FBI-raids-media-center-1052916.php | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Seattle|first=National Lawyers Guild WTO Legal Group|title=Waging War on Dissent|url=http://www.ratical.org/co-globalize/NLG-REPORT.pdf|access-date=3 April 2014|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175849/http://www.ratical.org///////////////co-globalize/NLG-REPORT.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Indymedia initially covered protests between 1999 and 2001. As protests began to wane, Indymedia covered global social justice movements, such as opposition to the war in Iraq. Indymedia was purported to be the first network on-the-scene in reporting the [[2008 Greek riots]] and the resistance towards the [[2009 Honduran coup d'état|2009 Honduran coup]].<ref name=":0">{{Citation|last=Kidd|first=Dorothy|title=Indymedia (The Independent Media Center)|date=2011|url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/216982176.pdf|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media|pages=4|place=[[University of San Francisco]]|publisher=[[SAGE Publications]]|access-date=July 2, 2021|archive-date=July 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709182049/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/216982176.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> The network also has a focus in covering the [[social justice]] campaigns of students, Indigenous people, immigrants, and peace activists.<ref name=":0" /> A slogan was "Don't Hate the Media, Become the Media!"{{r|Downing|p=254}}

Active, the software used as the basis for the first Indymedia center websites, was written by activists in Sydney. It went live in January 1999 and featured open publishing, calendars, events and contacts.<ref name=future>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-LHKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA94|title=Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet|first=Graham|last=Meikle|date=February 4, 2014|publisher=Routledge|via=Google Books|isbn=9781136727016|access-date=May 11, 2020|archive-date=January 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128065625/https://books.google.com/books?id=-LHKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA94|url-status=live}}</ref> Indymedia also ran a global radio project which aggregated audio RSS feeds from around the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://radio.indymedia.org/|title=Radio Indymedia|publisher=radio.indymedia.org|access-date=August 11, 2009|archive-date=August 2, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090802105443/http://radio.indymedia.org/|url-status=live}}</ref>