The Guardian on PRX, Indie Hubs

PRX and Transom.org are highlighted in "Remixing the Blogosphere", an article in The Guardian that focuses on "indie hubs" as new developments in democratizing journalism.

Here are some excerpts:

Bloggers may have sparked a media revolution by democratising journalism, but there are early signs that a new breed of website will take the idea further. Online independent media hubs are letting people collaborate in new ways - and the focus is mostly on multimedia work, rather than text.

Independent media hubs have much in common with other online publishing tools such as discussion forums and blogs, but they bring together the best of all worlds, providing a way to build communities who want to consume content and take a hand in producing it, too.

...the Public Radio Exchange (www.prx.org) enables more proficient radio producers to submit their shows to an online clearing house. Public radio broadcasters from across the world can then search the material and pay the producers via the non-profit website for any shows that they decide to use.

And here's the full article.