How-does-indymedia-work.md

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+The newswire is a place for grassroots on the ground media reports “news”
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+Text, photo, audio and video – What Where Why
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+This is a open space for progressive PGA and #4opens frendly content.
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+The feture column is written by the instance editorial collective from content posted on the newswire, linking back to the source. This is created in a #4opens way and open to all people involved in the site. The “features” are then published by passive consensus.
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+The editorial collective are the affinity group who admin and run the site, this group should have reguler #4opens meeting in person and on the ground if possible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_group
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+Each site aggregats featured stories  to others sites of interest/geography on their newswire as trusted/moderated sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator
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+All sites link to all other indymedia sites that have gone through the new IMC process (need to dig this up and streamline it) . Sites also link out to there federated network of PGA and #4opens fedivers cloud of instances. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink
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+Indymedia centers coordinate CJ for actions and campaigns, they set up on the ground media hubs and centers to help with outreach uploading and networking of media producers and campaigners.
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+Indymedia is a news source, apinon, conspiracies, commercial self promotion and “influencers” are not deemed to be news. We get round most of the mess and crap on #failbook ect by being “news” rather than apinon in this the 5 W's of news is key https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ws basic journalism. Anything that does not try to live up to this can be removed as “not news” this gives the admin team a wide leeway to keep the instances on topic.