On September 28, 2000, the Washington Post.com selected the IMC website in Prague as their global site of the day.

Television coverage of the IMC network has run on the following mainstream networks in addition to many local affiliates and hundreds of radio programs around the world:

• ABC Nightly News
• CBC's Good Morning Canada
• CNN's Evening Report
• Finnish Television (Finland national network)
• Channel 4 (United Kingdom)
• South African Public Television.

Quotes from the media about indymedia

• "The new media in Seattle provided a glimpse of what lies ahead for journalism in the new century. It is a message that older media ignore at their own peril...

• It wouldn't be surprising for one or two of these "independent media centers" to develop into a major media source, especially if they continue to function on the sort of open source reporting model seen in Seattle."

The Christian Science Monitor, December 9, 1999 (by Tom Regan) Alternate Link: CsmArticle

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• "Here in Philadelphia if the corporate media isn't cooperating, the Independent Media Center is there to make sure the events in the streets are clearly covered. In addition to the live tv operation, the most impressive accomplishment of the IMC is its unique synergy between so many forms of media."

North Bay Bohemian (formally Sonoma County Independent) July 27, 2000 (by Don Hazen)

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• "First created to provide a different perspective on the Seattle protests last December, the IMC has evolved to become a surprisingly effective news organization that includes over 100 reporters and editors. If you want to find minute by minute updates on what's happening outside presidential conventions this year, don't turn to cable tv or traditional news websites."

Wired News.com, August 5, 2000

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• "Many New Yorkers feel that the "open source-open content" Independent Media Center website is doing a better job of getting the real news out than the mainstream media, despite the fact that the City has refused to issue press passed to that group."

Wired News.com, September 8, 2000

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• "EVER READ THE NEWSPAPER and feel like they missed the point? Have you watched a TV news story and wondered why certain questions weren’t addressed? Have you felt like a passive observer of news, consuming only the stories spoon fed by companies whose profit margin was the main concern?"

• You aren’t alone. There are millions of people who feel the same way, and a select few motivated individuals are actually organizing to bring alternative news sources to the public via the Internet. They allow people to become participants instead of mere consumer observers. The organization’s name: the San Diego Independent Media Center. The mission: to provide an open forum via the Internet for citizens to become media activists."

• The SDIMC is the local chapter of Indymedia.org, a website originally set up for the 1999 W.T.O. protests. During the protest, activists created a website to present a different side of the story, the story not being told. The site posted video, audio and text-based stories, fully taking advantage of the online medium. Soon, Independent Media Centers started springing up all over the country and beyond."

Fahrenheit - San Diego's Independent Weekly, December 3, 2003 (by Ingrid Domingues)

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Quotes from top media experts/authors/community leaders

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• "Not enough accolades can be given to the Independent Media Center. It is doing what is both courageous and obvious, stepping into the vacuum left by the corporatization of the networks and PBS and providing truthful accounts of how unheard Americans think and feel?

• I cannot emphasize how important the Independent Media Center is and has become. We cannot win the battle for Global democracy without it."

Paul Hawken, noted author and visionary

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• "We need the Independent Media Center. In fact, there would be no way to justify its non-existence during the WTO ministerial in Seattle...

• Let the voices of the environment, of human rights, of labor, of consumers, of grassroots democracy, be heard. Let's support the Independent Media Center to help those voices be heard in Seattle and around the world."

Norman Solomon Syndicated columnist; author, "The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media"; co-host, World Trade Watch Radio; executive director, Institute for Public Accuracy

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• "People all over the world are raising their voices and expressing their outrage against the greed of the multinational corporations and the.unwillingness, and inability, of our governments to stop these institutions. To ensure that this happens, an Independent Media Center has been opened in Seattle. Such an effort is critical to the success of a people's movement for social change and I am fully supportive of the Independent Media Center. I would also strongly urge anyone interested in funding this project, to do so."

• "The need for independent media cannot be understated at a time when we experience the effects of corporate power in every level of our life and see the commercialization and consolidation of the means of communication becoming more entrenched. Our very democracy is at stake and independent media can be a powerful leveraging point."

• "People need to hear the other side of the story; they need to hear the truth under the public relations glaze that disempowers and creates fear; they need to be empowered again by all the good work that is being done by so many people in so many corners of the world. These voices need to shine and be heard! Support the Independent Media Center in Seattle during this historic opportunity."

David Barsamian Director, Alternative Radio

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• "The increased concentration, and corporatization of the media naturally leads to a greater number of voices being shut out. The media are motivated by profit, and naturally are guided by the question, 'What sells?' But we must ask the question, 'What is right?' and that means creating the means for people with a progressive agenda to speak out, to reach people in their own cities and around the world, and to work together for progress.

• "I applaud and congratulate organizations like the Independent Media Center that have made real strides in the fight to break out of the media monopoly. However, much work remains to be done. We share a vision of true democracy and active citizen participation in the debates that shape our communities. We must bring our agendas together and make independent media a reality.

Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Sr. Founder & President of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition

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• "We are in the early stages of a tremendously exciting international mass movement and the Independent Media Center is a leading player in its partner media movement.

• But the IMC is doing more than breaking the corporate monopoly on story telling, it is inventing new media models that are uniquely equipped to mirror the international and diverse nature of this protest movement. This is media that crosses borders and issues like no communication network we have ever seen before.

• Most importantly, the IMC represents the merger of media and activism: an organization that doesn't only cover the actions on the street but spreads the very information that helps draw thousands to the streets in the first place. I strongly urge you to support the IMC groundbreaking work."

Naomi Klein columnist and author of "No Logo: Taking Aim At The Brand Bullies"

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More recently a film has featured the role of IMC Argentina

• "'Eye of the Storm - the Crisis in Argentina and the Role of Independent Media at the Center of a Revolution' is a video project which attempts to identify the utility and power of the Independent Media Center (IMC) movement through the specific history of a single local IMC. In particular, this film focuses on the Argentinean Independent Media Center, a network of independent journalists which produces news and facilitates a space for understanding in the center of a neoliberal policy induced national crisis."

Raphael Lyon, Film Director - Eye of the Storm

Here's an article written mid 2002 entitled "Indymedia Three Years on"

also see: ImcPressCollectionEnglish

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