Adbusters Culture Jammers Headquarters - "We are a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Our aim is to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century." Canadian-based publishers of Adbusters Magazine and founders of Buy Nothing Day. American Newspeak: Word Collisions by Wayne Grytting - "Here are the latest cutting edge advances in the exciting field of conceptual downsizing, the achievements in Doublethink most likely to make George Orwell roll over in his grave." American Review - "critiques the media, promotes media activism, reviews under-reported stories, and calls for media reform. We come from a progressive point of view." Good set of resources and links. Excellent reading list from an advanced course on Political Communications. Arab Media Watch - "for objective British coverage of Arab issues." The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (Canada) - "represents a common front of readers and viewers, those working in the media industries, and labour and community groups concerned about the increasing concentration of media ownership in Canada. We are active in promoting greater diversity of media ownership, enhancing the rights of media workers to report freely, and monitoring key developments in the news and information industries." Chicago Media Action (CMA) - "is an activist group dedicated to analyzing and broadening Chicago's mainstream media and to building Chicago's independent media." The Daily Howler - from the pundits by Bob Somerby. The Consortium for Independent Journalism FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) - "the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. As an anti-censorship organization, we expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled. As a progressive group, 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." Honest Reports (UK) - "Fighting Islamophobia for an Honest Media" Free Press: media.reform.network - "is a national nonpartisan organization working to increase informed public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies that will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system with a strong nonprofit and noncommercial sector." The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD): Fair, Accurate and Inclusive Representation - "is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation." MAP: The Media Awareness Project - "A worldwide network dedicated to drug policy reform. We inform public opinion and promote balanced media coverage." Marxist Media Theory May I Speak Freely? (MISF): Media for Social Change (Medford, Massachusetts) - "is a nonprofit education organization that produces and distributes media on issues of social, environmental and economic justice." Media Alliance (San Francisco) - "is a 25-year-old nonprofit training and resource center for media workers, community organizations, and political activists. Our mission is excellence, ethics, diversity, and accountability in all aspects of the media in the interests of peace, justice, and social responsibility. MA offers a wide variety of services and support to its 3,000 members and groups affiliates, as well as to the general public. We publish MediaFile, the Bay Area’s media review, and People Behind the News, a comprehensive guide to media outlets and journalists throughout the Bay Area; and we train hundreds of community organizations and activists every year in media and computer skills and media advocacy techniques. We have also conducted analyses of media coverage of welfare legislation, affirmative action, and bilingual education and published the results of our analyses." Media Awareness Network - "offers practical support for media education in the home, school and community and provides Canadians and others with information and "food for thought" on our fast-evolving media culture. It's also a place where educators, parents, students and community workers can share resources and explore ways to make media a more positive force in children's lives." MediaChannel.org: The Global Network for Democratic Media (New York City) - "is a media issues supersite, featuring criticism, breaking news, and investigative reporting from hundreds of organizations worldwide. As the media watch the world, we watch the media." MediaLens.org (UK) - "correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media" Media Log by Dan Kennedy (Boston Phoenix) Media Matters for America -- "is a Web-based, not-for- profit progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media." Media Watch: Media Education through Literacy & Action - "Our goal is to challenge abusive stereotypes and other biased images commonly found in the media. Media Watch, which began in 1984, distributes educational videos, media literacy information and newsletters to help create more informed consumers of the mass media. We do not believe in any form of censorship, especially the silencing of marginalized groups. We believe education will help create a more active citizenry who will take action against commercial media pap." MediaChannel.org: A Global Network of Media Issues Groups Multimedia Monopoly - "contains links to stories and background on the concentration of media ownership." New World Media -- Digital Alternative Media NewsWatch: A Consumer's Guide to the News -- annotated links. Palestine Media Watch - "was established in October of 2000 to promote fair and accurate coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the US mainstream media. In broad terms, our mission is two-fold: (1) identify, report on, and protest clear journalistic failures by the US media in covering the conflict, and (2) help media outlets with access to pro-Palestinian points of view and voices for interviews, op-eds, or background discussions, whether here in the United States, in Israel, or in the Occupied Territories (OT). " Press Action Project Censored (Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California) - "The Mission of Project Censored is to educate people about the role of independent journalism in a democratic society and to tell The News That Didn't Make the News and why." propaganda critic - "Created eight years ago, when the world-wide web was in its infancy, the propaganda site is inspired by the pioneering work of the Institute for Propaganda Analysis (IPA). From 1937 to 1942, the IPA was dedicated to promoting the techniques of propaganda analysis among critically-minded citizens." SinclairAction -- "a campaign to protest Sinclair Broadcast Group's continued misuse of public airwaves to air one-sided politically charged programming without a counterpoint." SpinWatch (UK) -- "exists to provide public interest research and reporting on corporate and government public relations and propaganda." Subvertise.org Take Back the Media! Well-Connected: The Center for Public Integrity - "Investigative Journalism in the Public Interest". Includes a searchable database on who owns your local media, telephone and cable company. Who Owns What (Columbia Journalism Review) Young African-Americans Against Media Stereotypes (YAAAMS) - "is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to scrutinize media coverage for fairness and accuracy. African-Americans depend on the media for information and entertainment-like most people-yet we are ten times more likely to be stereotyped than non-African-Americans."