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American Journalism Review
based at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.

Center for Digital Democracy

  • dedicated to ensuring greater public participation in public media.

Columbia Journalism Review
based at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

  • a watchdog of the press in all its forms, from newspapers and magazines to radio, television, and cable to the wire services and the Web.

  • Journalism Tools for research can be found under News Gathering & Reporting.

  • see also their breakdown of "Who Owns What" in media.

Common Courage Press

  • a watchdog and publisher of "books for an informed democracy": on social justice, race, gender, feminism, economics, ecology, labor and U.S. domestic and foreign policy.

  • publisher of works by MIT linguist and historian, Noam Chomsky, among others.

FAIR / Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting

  • criticism of media bias, such as How Public Is Public Radio? (June 2004).

  • "(An) anti-censorship organization (to) expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled."

  • "FAIR believes that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of information. Uniquely, FAIR works with both activists and journalists"."

Freedom Forum

a nonpartisan foundation.

  • "...dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit focuses on three main priorities: the Newseum, First Amendment freedoms and newsroom diversity."

Journalism.org's State of the News Media 2006

an annual report.

Media Channel

founded and run by notable journalist and "news dissector," Danny Schechter.

  • "a media issues supersite, featuring criticism, breaking news, and investigative reporting from hundreds of organizations worldwide."

  • see their Journalists' Toolkit under News Gathering & Reporting.

Media Matters

non-profit research organization.

  • "dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."

Free Press
a non-profit media reform organization founded by author Robert McChesney.

  • "... working to open, democratize and ignite media policy debates... (and) increase advocacy efforts in Washington connected to grassroots outreach across the nation...."

  • radio link.

  • media ownership link.

  • includes links to media policies and initiatives.

  • read there mission statements for additional information.

MediaTenor

  • analysis of media content internationally.

News Watch: The Stories Behind The News

a project of the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism of the San Francisco State University Journalism Department.

Online Journalism Review

produced at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.

  • "...committed to covering the full range of journalistic issues in all media, but with a particular emphasis on the Internet...."

PRESSthink

by Jay Rosen at NYU

  • the "ghost of democracy in the media machine."

Project Censored

a media service of Sonoma State University.

  • "the news that didn't make the news."

  • ""explore(s) and publicize(s) the extent of censorship in our society" to stimulate responsible journalists to provide more mass media coverage of those issues and to encourage the general public to demand mass media coverage of those issues or to seek information from other sources."

Rocky Mountain Media Watch

  • seeking "better news for a strong democracy."

Who owns the media?

 … from the Center for American Progress

 … from The Center for Public Integrity

 … from the Columbia Journalism Review

 … from FreePress.net

 … from Now with Bill Moyers

 … from Take Back The Media

 … from The Nation's "National Entertainment State, 2006"

 

Michael Wolff

media writer formerly at New York magazine, now writing for Vanity Fair.

  • a strongly opinionated media insider, his weekly news column, This Media Life, is archived through February 2004.