Media Issues: Related Web Sites

  • Reporters Without Borders - Reporters Sans Frontières - Provides information on reporters who wrote freely and are in jeopardy, worldwide. Organizes petitions and letter writing campaigns in defense of threatened journalists.
  • mediachannel.org - media issues supersite featuring criticism, breaking news, and investigative reporting from organizations worldwide. Also has community boards, issue guides, action alerts, and a guide to media ownership.
  • Newspaper Association of America - nonprofit representing dailies and nondailies. Site includes information on circulation and readership, trends and numbers, and more.
  • Press Freedom Survey - annual report that rates press freedom, or lack of freedom, on a country-by-country basis. From Freedom House, a non-partisan human rights advocacy group.
  • Project for Excellence in Journalism - Initiative by journalists from all media to clarify and raise the standards of American journalism. Online home of the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Committee of Concerned Journalists
  • CJRDaily - critiques and analyses of political news coverage. From the Columbia Journalism Review.
  • Project Censored - Exploring and publicizing the extent of censorship in our society by locating stories about significant issues.
  • Daniel Pearl Family Foundation - Information about how to contribute to the Memorial Trust or Foundation to honor the memory of slain journalist Daniel Pearl.
  • Newseum - interactive museum of news that takes you behind the scenes to see and experience how and why news is made. Includes online exhibits.
  • The Museum of Television & Radio - watch and listen to thousands of television and radio programs.
  • News Blues - For people who work in television newsrooms. Includes information on working conditions and broadcasting companies across the U.S.
  • tvnewz.com - includes news, forums, and job listings, for those interested in, or working in the television news industry.
  • IWantMedia.com - Providing access to media news, statistics, publications, job listings, trade groups, and more.
  • Accuracy in Media (AIM) - Organization investigating complaints of media misdeeds and working for higher standards of reporting. Includes articles from the AIM Report, a bi-weekly publication.
  • Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - national media watch group and publisher of Extra!, offering well-documented criticism in an effort to correct media bias and imbalance.
  • Media Research Center - conservative media watchdog organization dedicated to "bringing political balance to and responsibility to the media."
  • Rocky Mountain Media Watch (RMMW) - Challenging "the unbalanced and unhealthy diet of information presented by the media corporations."
  • Harry Shearer: Found Objects - audio and video outtakes from various media celebrities.