For the past fifteen years, citizen-reporters, bloggers, new media outlets, and journalists have been building stories aimed at stimulating readers' imaginations by reporting about the world as it truly is, and by doing so, encouraging others to act by following their example. In this book, Gilles Vanderpooten analyzes this new way of doing journalism, its history, its philosophy, its most emblematic cases, its successes, and its failures, through the eyes of journalists, media experts, observers, and citizens from around the world.