Izzy Award-Winners Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman

Soon after accepting their Izzy Awards in Ithaca, NY, Greenwald and Goodman were interviewed about independent media by Bill Moyers.

Nonprofit local online news sites . . .

. . .are sprouting up as local dailies shrink or fold. These nonprofits include
well-funded, well-staffed VoiceofSanDiego.org and Baltimore's much smaller InvestigativeVoice.com.

Egyptian Bloggers...

...including the briefly-detained Wael Abbas, blogging/vlogging from Tahrir Square in Cairo, as reported by NY Times.

Beware Internet Hoaxes

Are young people, raised on the Internet, LESS likely to be taken in by hoax emails such as Obama as "radical Muslim" than Jon Stewart's 80-year-old aunt?

A You Tube Star Is Born

"Juju's Message to Mubarak" (H/t Carly S.) Let's hope Juju or her dad are not arrested by Saudi government, Mubarak's ally.

Indy Video Short Impacts 2008 Election

This 2008 Brave New Films video short "McCain's Mansions" (with over 600,000 views) boiled up through the media food chain to become part of the mainstream diet. It impacted the campaign, as shown by the behind-the-scenes promo video, "The Making of McCain's Mansions."

Need for access to newsmakers...

...undermines truthful, unfettered journalism, says indy TV host Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks. The L.A. Times quoted Uygur as saying his web-based TV show brought in a million dollars in revenue last year.