Hromadske TV, a crowdfunded digital media platform set up in Ukraine in late 2013, is a landmark in crowdfunding initiatives. Credit: Hromadske.tv.For decades, journalists and activists have tried to break the stranglehold that repressive governments or plutocrats hold on media around the globe.
During the Cold War, outlets such as Radio Free Europe, Radio Marti and Voice of America elbowed their way into the airless media environments of the Eastern bloc, Cuba and elsewhere to report on events censored in those countries and to offer an alternative view of the west.
