News, CNN, Wired and America Online. With continuously updated news articles, first-person accounts, audio clips, photos and video clips, the site received over 1.5 million hits during the WTO protests. The scores of individuals and media organizations which helped build the Seattle and DC IMC's are launching another Independent Media Center in Los Angeles and Philladelphia in time for protests in August. The focus of the IMC coverage will go beyond any potential police violence to explore and expose the issues that have caused thousands of people to take to the streets and express their dissent. The unique nature of this model of journalism allows stories to be posted from multiple sites and from a diversity of voices.
News outlets can retrieve stories in several different formats.
There will also be the occasional longer and more in-depth pieces. All of these stories will be available off the website on a separate MP3 page. Live 24 hour on-line broadcasting will take place with scheduled news programs, discussions, and interviews. Using software that's freely available to anyone with Internet access, people around the world will be able to print ready-made newsletters, translated into more than a dozen languages. In association with FreeSpeech TV and Deep Dish TV, the IMC will uplink approximately 4 hours a day of unique programming.