Newsclick is a member-supported English language progressive

Progressivism

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, online video news

News media

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 network. Launched in 2009 by Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick is a viewer funded news channel that produces news videos, partnering with Youtube

YouTube

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 and is based in New Delhi

New Delhi

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, India

India

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Content

Newsclick frequently interviews economists, politicians, scientists, technologists and policy experts about various issues, especially contemporary news. The website also publishes opinion articles on several subjects. The channel is also producing independent documentaries

See also

• Independent media
  Independent media
  Independent media refers to any form of media, such as radio, television, newspapers or the Internet, that is free of influence by government or corporate interests. The term has varied applications...
  
  
• Watchdog journalism
  Watchdog journalism
  Watchdog journalism aims to hold accountable public personalities and institutions, whose functions impact social and political life. The term "lapdog journalism", for journalism biased in favour of personalities and institutions, is sometimes used as a conceptual opposite to watchdog...
  
  
• Corporate media
  Corporate media
  "Corporate media" is a term which refers to a system of mass media production, distribution, ownership, and funding which is dominated by corporations and their CEOs....
  
  
• Alternative media
  Alternative media
  Alternative media are media which provide alternative information to the mainstream media in a given context, whether the mainstream media are commercial, publicly supported, or government-owned...
  
  
• Citizen journalism
  Citizen journalism
  Citizen journalism is the concept of members of the public "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information," according to the seminal 2003 report We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information...