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National Institute on Media and the Family
Providing research and education on the media's effect on families and children.
http://www.mediafamily.org
Media Research Center Home Page
From a conservative watchdog group, includes their goals, alerts, reports, columns, topics of special interest, resources, studies, personalities and contact information.
http://www.mediaresearch.org/
American Journalism Review
National magazine covering all aspects of print, television, radio and online media.
http://www.ajr.org
PR Watch
Investigative reporting on the practices of public-relations and public affairs industry, from the Center for Media and Democracy.
http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/index.htm...
Global Media Monitoring Project
A twice-a-decade study of the media’s news coverage to be undertaken worldwide with the aim of documenting the participation and portrayal of men and women in the world’s news media.
http://www.whomakesthenews.org/
Independent Press Councils (IPC)
Containing details of press councils who have successfully adapted the idea of self-regulation to their own cultural and political context, to facilitate the exchange of views and information, and to promote and support self-regulation.
http://www.media-accountability.org
Center for Media and Public Affairs
Nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization in Washington, D.C., conducting scientific studies of the news and entertainment media.
http://www.cmpa.com
Media Monitors Network (MMN)
Non-profit, non-partial and non-political platform for serious media contributors and observers.
http://www.mediamonitors.net/
MediaChannel.org
Nonprofit site dedicated to the political, social, and cultural impacts of the media.
http://www.mediachannel.org
Columbia Journalism Review
The nation's oldest media monitor produced by the School of Journalism.
http://www.cjr.org/
On the Media
Site representing weekly, one-hour National Public Radio program devoted to media criticism and analysis.
http://www.wnyc.org/onthemedia/
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
FAIR is a national media watch group which offers documented criticism of media bias and censorship in order to help the public become media activists rather than passive consumers of news.
http://www.fair.org/
Stats
Weblog and articles highlight abuses of science and statistics regarding policy issues.
http://www.stats.org/
Media Watch
Organization focusing on media literacy and the challenging of stereotypes commonly found in the media.
http://www.mediawatch.com
Media Transparency
Watchdog organization tracing funding sources of many media and political organizations.
http://www.mediatransparency.org
Alternative Media Watch
A set of links to most of the alternative and/or "radical" newspapers and publications operating today.
http://www.zmag.org/altmediawatch.htm
Accuracy in Media
Conservative watchdog group for fairness, balance and accuracy in news reporting.
http://www.aim.org/
Adbusters
Foundation with goal of changing the way society and the mass media interact.
http://www.adbusters.org
Media Watch
Summary, news, bungled news stories and viewable episodes of the ABC media analysis program.
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/
Morality in Media
Established in 1962 by Father Morton A. Hill, S.J. (1917-1985), to combat obscenity and to uphold decency standards in the media. MIM maintains the National Obscenity Law Center, a clearinghouse of legal materials on obscenity law.
http://www.moralityinmedia.org/
Project Censored
Locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for one reason or another.
http://www.projectcensored.org
Tyndall Report
Monitoring the American television networks' weekday nightly newscasts.
http://www.tyndallreport.com/
Media Talk
Wisconsin Public Radio show looking at current issues inside network television, cable, newspapers, magazines, the Internet and radio. Hosted by Dave Berkman. Audio archives link included.
http://www.wpr.org/mediatalk/
The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
Independent opinion research group studying attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues.
http://people-press.org/
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