The Media Consortium: Inside Our May Day Collaboration

Mediashift - on 24/5/12
On May 1, more than 30 independent media outlets collaborated to produce live national coverage of May Day protests. Why did these news organizations choose to collaborate -- and why on May Day? The answer has everything to do with the insufficiency of our current mass media to cover this kind of event. Read more

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On May 1, more than 30 independent media outlets collaborated to produce live national coverage of May Day protests. Why did these news organizations choose to collaborate -- and why on May Day? The answer has everything to do with the insufficiency of our current mass media to cover this kind of event.

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