{"error":{"code":502,"message":"Bad gateway.","param":null,"type":"cf_bad_gateway"}}

Munthe says he hopes the company will be financially self-sustaining in 12 to 18 months. Munthe comes from a rich background of journalism and Middle Eastern politics.wired.comDemotix, which has been nominated for the Community award at the SXSW 2010 Web Awards, employs five full-time staffers, five part-timers and a revolving crew of interns.

It’s neither top-down nor bottom-up, it’s flat: equal and collaborative. And collaboration is precisely the piece we feel we add: it’s our selling point.niemanreports.orgWe describe what we do not as “citizen journalism” but as “street journalism” because the news on Demotix is an expression of the concerns of our contributors, of what they think is news.

techcrunch.comPhotos sourced from Demotix have appeared on the front pages of New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, and The Guardian.