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由Reforma News Group辦的Reforma集團經已成為全墨西哥最出名的報章，原因是他們敢作敢為的報道風格，特別是針對政府貪污的醜聞。然而，Reforma的運作離不開資本主義市場經營的邏輯，即inmedia一直討論ohmynews時提到的商業模式。可是，最諷刺的是墨西哥的市場基本上並不自由，改革者集團之所以發展神速，很大情況上跟政府的政策有關。 乍看之下，改革者新聞組的出現，使當地人感到墨西哥的媒體好像已露出曙光，至少走出了電話等公營服務長期被嚴重壟斷的情況。然而，當筆者在云云報章之中，依然找不到英文書寫的新聞時，對這種「多元」卻總是嗤之以鼻。

Hughes gives a name to the new autonomous, assertive and politically diverse Mexican journalism that has taken over (though not completely) from the authoritarian model that dominated for most of the 20th century - "civic journalism." It has the potential, she writes, "to enhance civic participation and government accountability to citizens, (which are) the civic objectives expressed by its principal practitioners."

Examines the dramatic changes within Mexican society, politics, and journalism that transformed an authoritarian media institution into many conflicting styles of journalism with very different implications for deepening democracy in the country.

2006年10月27日，一名Indymedia的義工記者韋爾（Bradley Will）在墨西哥瓦哈卡（Oaxaca）市中槍身亡，當時一群教師示威者與警察及武裝部隊發生衝突，雙方爆發槍戰，韋爾與其餘三名示威者中槍身亡，並有多人受傷。