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Colorado Independent and sister sites noted as top 2008 muckrakers
The Center for Public Integrity recognized our parent organization, the Center for Independent Media, as one of it's favorite Web sites for investigative reporting.
Center for Public Integrity salutes MnIndy parent and The UpTake
The Washington, D.C.–based Center for Public Integrity salutes MnIndy's parent nonprofit, the Center for Independent Media, and the Minneapolis-based citizen videoblogging outlet The UpTake in its "Top 10 Website of 2008" list today. Citing media "from projects to blogs to websites that help keep our country transparent," the investigative journalism organization named the entire six-site CIM network, but specifically applauded our sister site in Michigan.
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The Center for Independent Media is a non-profit organization that fosters diversity of ideas in the national debate by educating and training people on the use of new communications technologies, such as the Internet, as an alternative publishing and distribution system to traditional broadcast and print media. The Center brings talented and diverse voices and ideas to the fore of our nation’s discourse, through its Fellowships, conferences, and research. Programs emphasize the importance of citizen-driven journalism as a critical founding principle of our nation, the positive role of democratically elected government in securing the common good and social welfare, and the continuing benefits of our founding culture of egalitarian government by the people, for the people.