RESEARCH SUPPORT ~ Eyes Open: A Gateway to Alternative and Progressive Media Sources

Look, I know all your questions and you know all my answers. Aren't we just wasting each other's time? Just write down what you'd think I'd say and, at the end of the year, I'll give you a bottle of vodka and we'll be even.

Janne Laukkanen, NHL defenseman, to reporters during a postgame interview.

Media Research and Support Organizations

American Newspeak- "Your one-stop shopping center for cutting edge advances in the mangling of meaning. The Wal-Mart of satire..."

The Alliance for Community Media

Adbusters' Culture Jammer's Headquarters

Benton Foundation

Center for Cooperative Research - Develops thorough timelines, outlines, and fact sheets about geopolitical topics. With daily updates. What a timesaver for the busy progressive!

The Center For War, Peace And The News Media - "A non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to supporting journalists and news organizations in their efforts to sustain an informed and engaged citizenry."

Columbia Journalism Review - "America's premiere media monitor—a watchdog of the press in all its forms"

Communications Consortium Media Center - "helps nonprofit organizations use media and new telecommunications technologies as tools for public education and policy change"

Devmedia

Essential Information - "We provide provocative information to the public on important topics neglected by the mass media and policy makers"

FAIR -- Fairness Accuracy In Reporting

FINS Information Age Library

Freedom of Information Act - through the Society of Professional Journalists

Global Internet News Agency

IGC: Media: Internet Resources- "The nonprofit Institute for Global Communications (IGC) changed the way the progressive community worked by introducing them to email, online discussions, mailing lists and the Web. "

MacBride Roundtable on Communication

Media Awareness Network- Canadian

Media Alliance- New York

Media Access Project- " is a non-profit, public interest law firm which promotes the public's First Amendment right to hear and be heard on the electronic media of today and tomorrow"

Media and Culture Review- Australian

Media Education Foundation

Media Literacy Review - University of Oregon

Media Filter- "Keep Free Media Free"

Media History Project

Media Literacy from KQED

Media Nation- "the best of the alternative press online" - covers art and culture topics as well as news.

MediaRights.org- "a community Web site, helps media makers, educators, nonprofits, and activists use documentaries to encourage action and inspire dialogue on contemporary social issues"

Media Statistics - "We cover television, video and computer games, the Internet, film and video, and the print media. "

Media Studies Journal

U. Penn. Library list of Media Watchdog groups.

Another set of links (from U. Texas) to Media Watchdog groups.

MediaThink - The Northwest Media Literary Center, Portland, OR

Media Working Group

Muckraker - Center for Investigative Reporting conducts in-depth investigations of hidden or complex topics that impact public life, for broadcast or print in the media.

NAMAC - National Association of Media Arts Centers

Nettime - Lots of mailing lists

Network Observer

Oregon Department of Consumer Business - good for research information

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press- "The Center is an independent opinion research group that studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues."

Portland News Watch - "Where the corporate news media are on trial every day! TV News: What Local Stations Don't Want You to Know!"

Public Information Research/Namebase Book Index - a unique document search system, up to the minute

Scorecard - Environmental information, particulary about toxins and how they affect your community

Society of Professional Journalists

Teaching Media Literacy

The Tyndall Report - Monitors the US TV networks' nightly newscasts measuring the time devoted to each story. Results in graph form.

Web Active's - amazing links page.

What Really Happened

The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press

Videazimut- "is an international non-governmental coalition promoting audiovisual communication for development and democracy."

Public Access Sites

Alliance for Community Media

Open Channel

Global Village CAT

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