grassroots media
Local citizen reporting
Grassroots media refers to news, commentary, and content produced by ordinary people rather than professional journalists or established media organizations.
The term emphasizes bottom-up creation and distribution—blogs, podcasts, community newsletters, citizen journalism—as opposed to top-down corporate broadcasting: Grassroots media coverage of the protest spread faster than mainstream news.
- community radioVolunteer-operated neighborhood station
- samizdatClandestine dissident publishing
- zinesAmateur self-published booklets
- underground pressRadical countercultural publishing network
- small pressIndependent book publisher
minority representation · citizen journalism · public forums · open mic nights · self-publishing · DIY publishing · local news · cultural preservation · pamphlets · podcasts · blogs · photocopying · tape trading · participatory · pirate radio · homegrown · word of mouth · voices
- local newscommunity news, local reporter, local politics, local events, city council
- alternative mediaalternative weekly, underground press, citizen journalism, zine, zines
- Community Radiocommunity radio, college radio, public radio, listener-supported, local programming
- advocacy mediaadvocacy journalism, community radio, alternative press, public access TV, citizen journalism
- ethnic mediaethnic newspapers, Ebony, Essence, BET, Telemundo
- indie mediaindie music, indie films, indie games, indie bands, indie rock
grassroots mediamainstream media
Dominant news establishment
media conglomerates · media monopolies · mass media · legacy media · network television
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