Blinkx: TV & Radio Broadcast Search Keyword, Boolean, Natural Language Searches for video & audio clips through BBC News, CNN, C-SPAN, ABC,
NBC, CBS, Fox, ESPN, NPR, Voice of America, and other networks | Smart Folders learn & save searches
AcademicBrainTrust - Connecting Scholars to Media Activists & Policymakers -
Illinois Initiative for Media Policy Research & Free Press "Academic researchers and scholars across a broad range of disciplines have a grossly underutilized wealth of experience
and knowledge that is desperately needed right now in policy fights across the country and the globe. As public interest
advocates and
activists
wage lonely, underfunded campaigns around public broadcasting, universal Internet access, global media policy, commercialism,
and other
important issues, there has been a noticeable lack of input from the considerable talent in the field of communications and
media
studies."
Global Voices - Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet & Society "collects, summarizes, and gives context to some of the best self-published content found on blogs, podcasts, photo sharing sites, and videoblogs from
around the world, with a particular emphasis on countries outside of Europe and North America" | by country, topics, contributors, several languages
High School Journalism Guide - Poynter Institute articles relating to writing for & editing high school newspapers, writing editorials, ethics, diversity, visual
journalism, legal issues, links
NewsLab television & radio news workshops for journalists, students, interested public, in writing, storytelling, ethical decision-making & other topics,
research articles, reporting strategies, newsletter, online streaming video story examples, tip sheets, guides for television newsrooms & journalism
classrooms produced at the request of working reporters, producers, news managers
OpenNet Initiative - U Toronto,
Harvard Law School, U Cambridge, Oxford U Research & Tools: Filtering Map, Search for Blocked Sites, Country Profiles, Regional Overviews, Reports, Articles, Issue Crawler Visualizations
"Internet censorship and surveillance are growing global phenomena. ONI’s mission is to identify and document Internet filtering and surveillance, and to
promote and inform wider public dialogue about such practices."
Society of Professional Journalists "dedicated to the perpetuation of a free press" | ethics resources, FOIA, training, diversity,
discussion lists, bulletin boards
SourceWatch formerly called the "Disinfopedia", a collaborative project to produce a
directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that
work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests.
Sponsored by the Center for Media and Democracy
Student Press Law Center high school & college journalism resources on the First Amendment - FAQ on student press rights, interactive tests on
student
media law & the First Amendment, reports on ongoing cases & archives involving student publications, news updates
Brave New Films free online progressive short documentary news videos
Clandestine Radio "a resource regularly used by radio monitors, academics and historians, journalists, and military and intelligence
analysts to track psywar developments across the globe"
Commercial Alert Ralph Nader - "Protecting children and communities from commercialism"
DemocracyNow.org national daily award-winning program, independent, int'l journalists' perspectives
DocuTicker - ResourceShelf.com "daily update of new reports from government agencies, ngo's, think tanks, and other groups"
ExxonSecrets.org trace connections of money, individuals, organizations & their dossiers in the web of climate change skeptics'
disinformation machine
FactsNet Daily Briefing top stories' Newslinks, Backgrounders, interviewable News Sources, Internet Resources, links to full texts of official
documents
Home Town News 3,000 links by state to "to all known daily & weekly U.S. newspapers with Web sites"
Independent World Television "the world’s first global independent news network, online & on TV, will deliver independent news & real debate from
professional and citizen journalists without funding from governments, corporations or commercial advertising, using the web
to organize & raise funds across borders, an international movement for democracy" | founded by Paul Jay, award-winning
documentary film-maker, former executive producer of CBC Newsworld¹s debate program Counterspin | funded by non-profit
foundations, incl the MacArthur & Ford Foundations, labour groups, contributions from individuals
Oligopoly Watch "an attempt to make sense of the business pages in the newspaper, particularly the stories about mergers and
acquistions...how and
why big companies keep growing bigger"
SmallTownPapers scanned images of recent issues of dozens of small town newspapers from throughout the United States, updated 2-3 weeks
after
publication, searchable archive to 1890s - articles, photos, advertisements, free registration
Technorati "a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere — the world of weblogs" | search by
keyword, URL,
browse popular topics, create free custom notifications
TvNewsLies.org "No Distractions - No Deceptions - No Diversions - No Delusions - News CNN, FOX News & MSNBC Don’t Want You to See" |
consolidation
& propagandizing in tv news, site follows most important stories not covered
WatchingAmerica "reflects global opinion about the United States, helping Americans and non-Americans alike understand what the world
thinks of current issues that involve the U.S. This is done by providing news and views about the United States published in
other countries."
Wikileaks "an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and participatory analysis...to reveal unethical behavior in their
governments and corporations"
Organizations & Trade Resources
ACME - Action Coalition for Media Education media literacy education, independent media production, grassroots media justice & reform | indymedia, activism,
students, parents,
research, curriculum
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) browse, search by topic, cartoonist, publication date, keyword, cartoonist profiles, editorial cartoon news briefs, RSS,
"Cartoons
for the Classroom" - lesson plans & other classroom materials
Chilling Effects of Anti-Terrorism:
"National
Security" Toll on Freedom of Expression - Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) site tracks "the chilling effect that responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, have had on information
availability
on
the Internet" - descriptions of abuses, tracks Web sites (including government sites) that have shut down, have been
requested to
suppress
information, or have self-censored, incl examples of employees who have been suspended or lost jobs as a result of
anti-terrorism
initiatives
Coalition of Journalists for Open Government "Our goal is to provide timely information on freedom of information issues and on what journalism organizations are
doing to
foster greater transparency in government."
Committee of Concerned Journalists "a consortium of journalists, publishers, owners and academics worried about the future of the profession" | Commentary
and
Research, Tools, Newsroom Development, Membership, Career Resources
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) "nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded in 1981 to monitor abuses against the press and promote press freedom
around the world" | news, reports, "Ten Worst Enemies of the Press"
Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma "A network of journalists, journalism educators & health professionals dedicated to improving media coverage of
trauma, conflict and tragedy. The Center also addresses the consequences of such coverage for those working in journalism." |
reporting
tips on topics such as interviewing victims, families, covering disasters, suicide, murder, domestic violence | articles,
research
reports, training material, links
Free Press Media Reform Network "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"
International Labor Communications Association "we hope to focus the content of our postings in four general areas: media, labor stories, important
stories not covered by the from the mainstream media, announcements of events, publications, etc."
The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) "works from within the journalism industry to foster fair and accurate coverage of LGBT issues" | stylebook, directory of
media
companies with domestic partner benefits, journalist's toolbox, guidelines
National Press Photographers Association workshops, television photography, technology, job information bank, e-commerce store, AV library, researchers, students,
instructors, photojournalists
News Leaders Debate: Building Audience With Blogs -
Poynter
Institute This series of articles looks at how journalists could use blogs "to bridge some gaps between audience and media." |
features
comments on the role of blogs in journalism from a number of newspaper and TV news editors and executives, links to related
articles and Web sites about journalism and blogs
Take Back the Media "a cooperative project by progressive American citizens. We are dismayed at the pro-government, pro-corporate bias shown
by American
media, and we intend to do something about it."
World Public Opinion.org (WPO) - Program on International Policy Attitudes
(PIPA) regionally organized information "on public opinion from around the world on international issues." | reports,
questionnaires,
methodology | topics incl development, aid, environment, trade, governance, security, justice, human rights, the United
Nations, more
Google Zeitgeist search patterns, trends, surprises, top popular searches, categories, topics, annual summary, timeline,
archived weekly & monthly search reports back to 2001, specific countries
JournoList asks what kind of answers journalists are seeking, then suggests tools & links to resources
Legal Guide for Bloggers - Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) "a basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, to let you know you have rights" | FAQs on
intellectual property, online defamation law, section 230 (of the Communication Decency Act of 1996) protections, privacy, FAQs for
bloggers as journalists (reporter's privilege and media access), FAQs on election, labor laws