[Imc-sydney] uni assignment help

[Stephanie Childs]

Hi everyone,
   
  Thanks Cam for getting back to me so quickly! I’m really interested to hear your thoughts on these questions to help me write my uni assignment. Feel free to just reply in point form, I don’t want to take up your time, just get an insider’s perspective on what Sydney Indymedia is all about.
   
  Thanks SO much!!!

Steph.
   
   
  (1)  My first question is how you guys as volunteers manage to keep Sydney Indymedia up and running. What sort of hours would you contribute to Sydney Indymedia in a typical week? Approximately how many people are there currently contributing to Sydney Indymedia?
   
  (2)  Do collective members generally come from journalistic backgrounds? Do you think that having journalism training or not impacts upon the quality of news materials? 
  (By the way, I’m not a journalist!!) 
   
  (3)  I read on the Editorial Guidelines that Sydney Indymedia is committed to freedom of speech and non-censorship. One of the Feature Guidelines is that 12 hours must pass after the posting of a proposal before a story can be promoted to a feature, to allow time for dissent. Does it often happen that there is dissent? On what grounds would a story not be allowed to be promoted to a feature? What sort of issues do you face in trying to strike a balance between non-censorship and non-inflammatory journalistic content?

 		
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