Famous media and communication theorist Denis McQuail, called journalists and editors “Gatekeepers”. However, this term does not seem to be applicable anymore due to the emergence of social media. New forms of journalism have emerged with the creation of social media and its overpowering control on our daily lives.

We’ve come to an era where anyone, anywhere, can “make” the news. Filters don’t exist nor are they needed. What is needed and achieved by us all is our civil empowerment around the world. People wish to share, have fact-based news; this is why we call it now “citizen journalism”. It literally is at everyone’s fingertips.

With blockchain and new technologies emerging at an exponantial rate, we’ve come to source for news in different ways. One of the way has been created with decentralized applications such as:

Decentralized News Network (DNN): A political news platform curated by the community.

Civil: Radically open fact-based journalism.

Decentralization is the 21st century trend!