Citizen journalism websites

Bellingcat is a Netherlands-based investigative journalism group that specialises in fact-checking and open-source intelligence (OSINT). It was founded by British citizen journalist and former blogger Eliot Higgins in July 2014.

The Independent Media Center, better known as Indymedia, was an open publishing network of activist journalist collectives that reported on political and social issues. Following beginnings during the 1999 Carnival Against Capital and 1999 Seattle WTO protests, Indymedia became closely associated with the global justice movement. The Indymedia network extended internationally in the early 2000s with volunteer-run centers that shared software and a common format with a newswire and columns. Police raided several centers and seized computer equipment. The centers declined in the 2010s with the w

Russia-focused media outlet

AgoraVox is a French language news website founded in March 2005 by Carlo Revelli and Joël de Rosnay. AgoraVox was one of the first citizen journalism websites in France, and is similar to the community sites ''L'Echo du Village'' (1998) and Indymedia (1999). According to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, "AgoraVox is one of the most prominent European examples of a citizen journalism site".