Last I heard, Leif Utne had a budget of US$50 for his trip to Cancun to provide on-the-ground coverage of the WTO Ministerial, and that was a donation from a supporter.
As it happens, he and his collaborators—Starhawk and Ben Lilliston—along with Tom Hayden for AlterNet are doing a fine job of covering the free trade dog-and-pony show from the perspective of the Outsider.
Utne Tradewatch is a skunkworks project and indicative of what the independent media can do with little or no budget.
Very highly recommended.
Disclaimer: I’m an employee of Utne and provide minimal technical support services for this project.
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