This research investigates the entrepreneurial and independent journalism outlets emerging from the 2010s across the digital platform s emergence and their relationship and effective contribution to the public interest. We structured the investigation under the theoretical framework of the Political Economy of Communication (EPC), which has as its structuring axis, from a Marxist perspective, the work, social and power relations embedded in the production and consumption of symbolic goods in the communication processes. It seeks to understand, in the light of the public interest, how these new journalistic vehicles, in different formats such as websites, newsletters, podcasts, information checking agencies, digital video channels, emerge, organize themselves, produce and interact with each other. We present the historical and ideological context that influences and promotes this movement: neoliberalism and capitalist restructuring at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries, which preaches the ideology of free competition and the myth of the success of self-entrepreneurship, driven by a presumed determinism of digital technologies. We also analyze the influence and interference engendered by the duopoly of the Google and Meta platforms with their practices of surveillance and data and behavior commercialization, causing changes in journalism made, as well as the relationships and tensions between these new vehicles and the media hegemonic. There is a list of the regulatory and planning projects that can minimize and contain damages generated by the capitalist practices of platforms and alternatives that have been structured based on cooperative collective experiences, as well as unravel the sources of revenue used by these journalistic ventures and the inherent risks. From the collection of data and documents, listening to lectures and event panels, semi-structured interviews and a questionnaire answered by 82 journalists who created or are working on these vehicles, we proved the hypothesis proposed here that this independent journalism has been provoking and promoting agendas and concerns in the traditional media, as well as themes and discussions that find actions and responses in the legislative and executive spheres in favor of the public interest. We recognize that this environment is going through a process of reconfiguration and maturation that will still cause changes, role alternations and fluctuations in the performance of these actors. We identified the existence of vulnerabilities and precariousness for professional entrepreneurs in these initiatives, especially in relation to the fragility present in most of the financing models they practice. As a contribution to future research in this field, we suggest categorization and self-designation that allows greater clarity in the representation of these vehicles in the actual journalistic production environment, as well as their relevant and significant performance aimed at the public interest.