DIY Media

The WWW has vastly expanded to anyone with a computer the opportunity to create and share widely text, audio and video. "Do-it-yourself" electronic media coalesced into a movement at the time of the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle, in November 1999, when media-savvy protesters established world-wide links via computers, and dubbed themselves "indymedia." Indymedia sites now exist in a hundred cities worldwide, and have a unified website. As well, a myriad of small-group, personal and idiosyncratic expressions, without any institutional ties or accountability, have sprung up on the Web. These sites are communities as well as media outlets.

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Indymedia
Indymedia activists report on war issues, and have also used the sites to mobilize anti-war actions, and thus create the news. Indymedia is volunteer-funded and -run.

More Info:
Modern Day Muckrackers
Technology creates a new form of activism
Independent Perspectives: War in Iraq

The Washington Pox
One example of the Internet newsletter, preserving a traditional format in a new medium. This political newsletter by a DIY Washington, DC pundit, Alec Dubro offers a satirical approach.