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This is a collection of links to online news sites with a strong focus on citizen participation and in many cases citizen written news or content.

This list is being interactively compiled by member of http://DoWire.Org and anyone else who happens across this page.

We are going to start with a limited set of initial categories. Please add sites in the proper place.

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For online advocacy efforts, please add those to our everyday citizens link list.

Citizen-based

Non-commercial, non-profit efforts

Only include sites with some "news" with contribution from multiple authors. Individual blogs with empty "event" or submission sections don't count.

On Line Opinion
- Place: Brisbane, Queensland/Australia
- Web: http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/
- Launch Date: April 1999
- Key Features: forum for public social and political debate of Australian issues
- Main Success: Quality not-for-profit e-journal
- Contact Name: Graham Young
- Contact E-mail:editor@onlineopinion.com.au
- Notes:

Youth Noise
- Place: San Francisco, CA
- Web: http://www.youthnoise.org
- Launch Date: 8/21/03
- Key Features: Teen generated content
- Main Success: Reaching teens with newsworthy info on their terms
- Contact Name: Ginger Thomson
- Contact E-mail: ginger@youthnoisemail.com
- Notes:

OrangePolitics
- Place: Orange County, North Carolina
- Web: http://www.orangepolitics.org
- Launch Date: June 2004
- Key Features: Citizen reporting and commenting
- Main Success: Extending access to local news and facilitating discussion between disparate groups within the community
- Contact Name:
- Contact E-mail:
- Notes:

Urban Vancouver
- Place: Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Web: http://www.urbanvancouver.com/
- Launch Date: April 2004
- Key Features: super blog and portal for the people of Vancouver, Canada by Vancouverites
- Main Success: After only four months, it is up to 150 users and 15, 000 unique visitors per month and is number 1 on Google for many Vancouver-related keywords
- Contact Name: Boris Mann
- Contact E-mail: info AT urbanvancouver DOT com
- Notes: Submitted by Phillip A D Smith

iTalkNews
- Place: Oakland, CA
- Web: http://www.italknews.com/
- Launch Date: April 2005
- Key Features: iTalkNews.com, part of the Oak News Network, Inc., is a breaking news forum and a forerunner in a new kind of news journalism, where everyone can participate in current events. This is a section where you can post your own articles. You can write on any topic as long as it relates to current events/news.
- Main Sucess: We are an interactive community where people can read breaking news, discuss it, and post their own articles. Our goal is to foster diversity and offer a wide range of opinions on any topic in the news, while creating a nationwide network of writers and thinkers.
- Contact Name: Liz Lee
- Contact E-mail: info@italknews.com
- Notes: Submitted by Saul Guzman

Gheminga
- Place: Modena, Emilia Romagna, Italy
- Web: http://www.gheminga.it/
- Launch Date: September 2001
- Key Features: Gheminga is the first italian citizen journalism project.
- Main Success: Citizen Journalism
- Contact Name: Diego Sessa
- Contact E-mail:info@gheminga.it
- Notes:

MyMissourian
- Place: Mid-Missouri, Missouri, USA
- Web: http://www.mymissourian.com
- Launch Date: November 2004
- Key Features:
- Main Success:
- Contact Name:
- Contact E-mail:
- Notes: MyMissourian provides residents of mid-Missouri the opportunity to write their own stories about life in their communities with editing help by student editors from the Missouri School of Journalism. We rely on those usually termed readers to become reporters.

New business, small business, quasi-commercial, etc.

freshare.net
- Place: The Ozarks (southern Missouri and northern Arkansas)
- Web: http://www.freshare.net
- Launch Date: January, 2007
- Key Features: Magazine style layout. Lead and featured articles, multiple categories, photo galleries, video news pieces, local events calendar, searchable archive of past articles, movie trailers, local weather, forums. There is also a section for reader submitted poetry, prose, artwork and music. Plus, employment opportunities and a free classifieds site.
- Main Success: Still building awareness and membership.
- Contact Name: Bob Korpella, Publisher