Resources / Seeking Truth & Access to Media

 

Free Press Reform media Transform democracy  (Northampton, MA)
Working to increase informed public participation in crucial media policy debates
www.mediareform.net  

The Free Press / Freepress
Progressive news & commentary / A national, nonpartisan, media reform organization
www.freepress.org    www.freepress.net  

Current.org  (Takoma Park, MD)
Web service of the newspaper about public TV & radio in the U.S.
www.current.org  

Commonwealth Club  (San Francisco, CA)
The nation's oldest & largest public affairs forum, nonprofit educational organization, audio podcasts, articles
www.commonwealthclub.org  

Online Computer Library Center  (Dublin, OH)
Nonprofit, membership, computer library service & research organization dedicated to furthering access to the world's information
www.oclc.org    

New Pages.Com  Portal to Independents (Bay City, MI)
News, info & guides to bookstores, periodicals, publishers, record labels, newsweeklies
www.newpages.com  

Commercial Alert (Portland, OR)
Keeping the commercial culture within its proper sphere
www.commercialalert.org  

Stop Big Media
Save your local media from corporate control
www.stopbigmedia.com  

Environmental News Network  (international)
www.enn.com  

FAIR, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting  (NY, NY & national)
Media watch group, well-documented criticism of media bias & censorship
www.fair.org

Project Censored  (Sonoma State University, CA)
Stories we rarely get to read about
www.projectcensored.org  

Green Fire Productions  (La Grande, OR)
Creating communication tools for conservation, sustainability & social justice
www.greenmedia.org  

Reclaim the Media  (Seattle, WA)
Nonprofit dedicated to pursuing a more just society by transforming our media
www.reclaimthemedia.org  

Adbusters Media Foundation / Adbusters Magazine  (Vancouver, BC)
Global network of social activists who use the medium of the information age
www.adbusters.org  

Institute for Public Accuracy (San Francisco, CA & Washington, DC)
Founder Norman Solomon  Helping progressive & grassroots organizations get ideas
into mainstream, censored & forgotten stories

www.accuracy.org  

Media Watch  (Santa Cruz, CA)
Ann Simonton, challenging abusive stereotypes &  biased images in the media
www.mediawatch.com  

What Does It Mean?  (Internet site)
World's largest English language news service w/ over 500 articles updated daily
www.whatdoesitmean.com  

MediaAlliance  (Oakland, CA)
Promoting media escellence, ethics, diversity & accountability
www.media-alliance.org  

Media Channel  (NY, NY)
Media issues supersite, featuring criticism, breaking news & investigative reporting
from hundreds of organizations worldwide

www.mediachannel.org  

Media Study / Dr. Michael Niman  (Buffalo State University, NY)
Provides resource links for conducting critical research in media studies
www.mediastudy.com  

Media Transparency  (Minneapolis, MN)
Following the money behind conservative media, associated with Cursor.org
www.mediatransparency.org  

Action Coalition for Media Education / ACME
Teaching media education: knowledge, skills, & activism
www.acmecoalition.org  

Media Education Foundation  (Northampton, MA)
Produces & distributes video documentaries to encourage critical debate about media
www.mediaed.org  

MediaMatters for America
Web-based nonprofit progressive research & information center dedicated to monitoring, analyzing & correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media
www.mediamatters.org  

Links important enough to build a website for  (Canadian Internet site)
www.stoplying.ca  

Rocky Mountain Media Watch (Colorado)
Challenges citizens to resist & change the manipulative & toxic formulas of Big Media
www.bigmedia.org  

PR Watch (Center for Media & Democracy) (Madison, WI)
Quarterly publication, investigative reporting on the public relations industry
www.prwatch.org  

Center for Media Literacy  (Los Angeles, CA)
Nonprofit educational organization dedicated to media literacy
www.medialit.org  

Benton Fountain  (Washington, DC)
Strategic communications in the digital age for solving social problems
www.benton.org  

NACLA / North American Congress on Latin America  (NY, NY)
Nonprofit providing information on U.S.-Latin America relations
www.nacla.org