Alternative Media Sources
About-Face
“A website to develop personal activism and media literacy
around images of girls and women in the media. This website offers activist-oriented
tools to hold advertisers responsible, clever activities and witty commentary.”
Adbusters
“Produces spoof ads, uncommercials, and media critiques
in an attempt to 'clean up advertising and consumerism's polluting effects
on the mental and physical environment.”
AFP: Worldwide
News Agency
“AFP is the world's oldest established news agency, reaching
thousands of subscribers (radios, TVs, newspapers, companies).”
The Alan Guttmacher Institute
“The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) is a non-profit
organization focused on reproductive health research, policy analysis and
public education. AGI publishes Family Planning Perspectives, International
Family Planning Perspectives, The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy and
special reports on reproductive health and rights, and issues involving
young people and sexuality.”
Alternative Health
News Online
The site provides news and information about alternative
medicine.
The Alternative
Information Center
“The AIC is a Palestinian-Israeli organization which
disseminates information, research and political analysis on Palestinian
and Israeli societies as well as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while
promoting cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis based on the values
of social justice, solidarity and community involvement.”
Alternative Press
Index
“The Alternative Press Center (APC) is a non-profit collective
dedicated to providing access to and increasing public awareness of the
alternative press.”
Alternet.org
“AlterNet.org is a project of the Independent Media Institute,
a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent
and alternative journalism.”
American
Academy of Pediatrics
http://www.aap.org/advocacy/mediamatters.htm
“These websites provide testimony from the American Academy
of Pediatrics on the Social Impact of Music
Violence before a Senate Subcommittee, and offer other
reports and resources on media literacy issues as well.”
The American Prospect
Online
“The aim of The American Prospect is to contribute to
a renewal of America's democratic traditions by presenting a practical
and convincing vision of liberal philosophy, politics, and public life.”
Arabic Media Internet Network
Provides current news and archives related to the Middle
East.
Archives
of Children-Media-UK
“A space in which academics, regulators and those working
in the media industries can engage in critical debate about children and
all forms of media (e.g. TV, video, film, computers, etc).”
BBC news
Provides international news from the British Broadcasting
Corporation.
Café Progressive
“A progressive launchpad and a thriving online community
of resources and ideas for progressive educators, social justice activists,
multicultural students and citizens.”
CBC
“Features news, information, entertainment, radio networks,
and specialty cable TV.”
The Center for Media
Literacy
“This website provides other media literacy links, an
on-line catalog of resources for parents and educators, and seminar/workshops
for professional development.”
CentrEx News
An alternative news source with a focus on international,
political, and environmental affairs.
China News Digest (CND)
“Provides timely and balanced news coverage on China
and China related affairs.”
Cnet
“A large resource for all things having to do with the
net.”
Commercial Alert
“A moderated e-mail list to help families, parents, children,
and communities defend themselves against harmful, immoral, or intrusive
advertising and marketing, and the excesses of commercialism.”
Common Dreams
“An eclectic mix of politics, issues and breaking news
with an emphasis on progressive perspectives that are increasingly hard
to find with our corporate-dominated media.”
The Consortium
“Magazine dedicated to independent investigative journalism.”
CounterPunch
“CounterPunch is a bi-weekly muckraking newsletter that
brings readers the stories that the corporate press never prints.”
Critical and Cultural
Studies
“Provides various resources, links, calls for papers,
and conference listings dealing with the academic fields of Critical, Cultural
and Communication Studies.”
Cultural Studies
and Critical Theory
“Cultural studies draws from the fields of anthropology,
sociology, gender studies, feminism, literary criticism, history and psychoanalysis
in order to discuss contemporary texts and cultural practices.”
Cyprus
Alternative
“Aternative newsroom that attempts to give you want you
want to hear, or what others fear to say, with just that little bit of
satire thrown in.”
Dawn
“Pakistan's most widely circulated English language newspaper.”
Democracy Now
“A national, listener-sponsored public radio and TV show,
pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the country.”
Democratic Socialists
of America (DSA)
“In this web site you can find out about DSA, its politics,
structure and program.”
Dissent Magazine
“Dissent is a quarterly magazine of politics and culture
featuring reflective articles about politics in the U.S., social and cultural
commentary, and coverage of European politics.”
Eight
Key Concepts to Media Literacy
Outlines 8 basic concepts of media education/literacy.
Electronic Policy
Network (EPN)
“The Policy Action Network is dedicated to explaining
and popularizing complex policy ideas to a broader audience. Our goal is
to improve collaboration and dialogue between policy and grassroots organizations,
and to promote their work to journalists and legislators.”
ENN
“Offers timely environmental news, live chats, interactive
quizzes, daily feature stories, forums for debate, audio, video and more
aimed at educating users about the major issues, while giving them
the tools to make a difference in their own community.”
Fair
“Advocates for greater diversity in the press and scrutinizes
media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting
viewpoints and exposes neglected news stories and defends working journalists
when they are muzzled.”
Feminist
Majority Foundation
“A cutting edge organization dedicated to women's equality,
reproductive health, and non-violence.”
Flipside
“A proudly independent voice committed to human and civil
rights, global peace and environmental sustainability, democracy and equality,
printing the news and ideas the mainstream media rarely deals with.”
Flyingfish
“This website is dedicated to the resistance against
news and image management, against the systematic distortion and trivialisation
of reality which mainstream culture spews forth.”
Foreign
Policy In Focus
Project on foreign policy "Working to make the U.S. a
more responsible global leader and partner."
GlobalInfo.org
“Supplies wide ranging coverage of the Developing World
- news, analysis, features, breaking stories, blanket coverage and in-depth
follow-up from Santiago to Shanghai - to print, broadcast and web media
in the U.S.”
Guardian Unlimited
News and analysis from an independent British newspaper.
Guerrilla News
Network
“Guerrilla News Network is an underground news organization
with headquarters in New York City and production facilities in Berkeley,
California. Our mission is to expose people to important global issues
through guerrilla programming on the web and on television.”
Independent Media Center
http://seattle.indymedia.org
“Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations
and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage.
Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate,
and passionate tellings of truth.”
Institute
for Public Accuracy
“As a nationwide consortium of policy researchers, the
Institute for Public Accuracy seeks to broaden public discourse by gaining
media access for those whose perspectives are commonly drowned out by corporate-backed
think tanks and other influential institutions.”
In These Times
“A national, biweekly magazine of news and opinion published
in Chicago, featuring investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance
and government wrongdoing, insightful analysis of national and international
affairs, and sharp cultural criticism.”
IPS
“IPS focuses its news coverage on the events and global
processes affecting the economic, social and political development of peoples
and nations.”
Ithaca Community
News
“LABOR, ARTS, ACTIVISM, NEWS, EVENTS, LINKS,
YOUR LETTERS, BUSINESS, EDITORIALS, FREE STUFF”
The Jerusalem Post
Online news with frequent updates, covering regional
events from Israel's perspective.
Just Think
“An organization devoted to teaching young people to
understand the words and images in media and to think for themselves.”
KUCI:
Subversity
“Subversity, in its weekly interviews with grassroots
activists and progressives within and beyond the Orange Curtain, offers
timely analysis of the anti-war movement and resistance to the national
security state.”
Left
Business Observer
“Left Business Observer is an 8-page more-or-less monthly
newsletter on economics and politics in the U.S. and the world at large.”
Le Monde
Daily French newspaper
LUVer Alternative News
“LUVER ALTERNATIVE NEWS covers ... through multi-media
... the social, cultural, political, and personal revolution that the corporate
media actively supresses.”
McSpotlight
“This website offers information about the infamous libel
court case between McDonald's corporation and a postman and gardener from
London who passed out leaflets on McDonald's corporate practices. The website
offers background on the court case, information about the impact of corporatization
and globalization, and links to other larger relevant issues.”
Media
Awareness Network
“Regularly updated media news from education, government,
community groups, and the media industries.”
Media Bypass
Features a "bypass" of mainstream media for stories hard
to find elsewhere.
Media Channel
“Connects hundreds of affiliate organizations and sites
involved in media and human rights concerns globally.”
Media Education
Foundation
“The Media Education Foundation is a non-profit educational
organization devoted to media research and production of resources to aid
educatiors and others in fostering analytical media literacy.”
Media Scope
“Mediascope is a national, nonprofit research and policy
organization working to encourage responsible portrayals in film, television,
the Internet, video games, music and advertising.”
Media Studies
“This website is a hub for media and critical thinking
studies. It provides links to listserves, university programs, conferences,
and a large international listing of organizations.”
Media Watch
“Challenging racism, sexism and violence in the media
through education and action.”
Mercury Center
Regional news and information
Mother Jones
“Investigative news reporting and commentary covering
issues and points of view underrepresented elsewhere online.”
The Nation
Critical discussion of social and political issues
National Institute
on Media and the Family
“This website provides helpful fact-sheets that cover:
children and TV, MTV, girls and body image, alcohol and ads.”
New Moon Magazine
“New Moon Publishing produces media for girls who want
their voices heard and their dreams taken seriously, and for adults who
care about girls. You can also find articles posted on various topics (feminist
families and child-raising), items to browse in their store, and posted
events across the nation.”
NY Transfer
News Collective
Online alternative news service concentrating on politics
and social issues and international news.
Off Our Backs
“The mission of the paper is to provide news and information
about women's lives and feminist activism; to educate the public about
the status of women around the world; to serve as a forum for feminist
ideas and theory; to be an information resource on feminist, women's, and
lesbian culture; and to seek social justice and equality for women worldwide.”
ON THE
ISSUES
“The Progressive Women's Quarterly is a feminist, humanist
magazine of critical thinking, dedicated to fostering collective responsibility
for positive social change.”
One World
“Raising awareness, stimulating debate, and encouraging
participation on human rights and sustainable development issues.”
Organic Consumers
“Campaigning for Food Safety, Organic Agriculture, Fair
Trade & Sustainability.”
Pacific-Mall.com
Provides links to alternative radio stations
Pacifica Radio
“Pacifica, today, remains the only radio network in the
United States to function unconstrained by corporate underwriting and policy
decisions.”
Popcultures.com
“Links to other sites related to popular culture analysis,
cultural studies and mass media theory.”
The Progress Report
“Business and economic news and analysis from alternative,
progressive perspective.”
The Progressive
“The magazine, its affiliates, and its staff steadfastly
oppose militarism, the concentration of power in corporate hands, the disenfranchisement
of the citizenry, poverty, and prejudice in all its guises. We champion
peace, social and economic justice, civil rights, civil liberties, human
rights, a preserved environment, and a reinvigorated democracy.”
Radio Left
“Radio Left is an Internet Radio Station and a website
that are intended to promote the liberal and progressive point of view.”
Sam Smith's Progressive
Review
Daily national and international news coverage
Searchbeat
Links to alternative media sources
SF Gate
“Electronic edition of major California newspaper providing
national, state, and local news.”
TAO Communications
“An internet server providing communications for social
and environmental liberation.”
Telegraph.co.uk
Website of Telegraph Group Limited (TGL), which publishes
The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and The Spectator.
The Times
Online version of The Times newspaper
Tom Paine.com
“TomPaine.com seeks to enrich the national debate on
controversial public issues by featuring the ideas, opinions, and analyses
too often overlooked by the mainstream media.”
Tompkins County Green
Pary
News and information about the Tomkins County Green Party
UTNE Reader Online
“UTNE READER reprints the best articles from over 2,000
alternative media sources bringing you the latest ideas and trends emerging
in our culture.”
Voice
of the Shuttle
“This site contains general resources, lists of conferences,
journals and zines, listservs, and searchable topics such as: globalization,
censorship, fashion, generational wars, popular/mass cultural studies and
media theory.”
WireTap:
the Magazine
“WireTap provides readers with a weekly index of investigative
news articles and provocative personal essays by and about young people
that challenge stereotypes of race, gender, sexuality and lifestyle. WireTap
is also a portal for other youth media groups. Their Youth Network page
provides visitors with a map of existing youth media -- including high
school and college newspapers around the country -- with short descriptions,
contact info and direct links to their websites.”
Women's
Issues Resource Sites
“This website is a selective, annotated listing of web
sites containing resources and information about women's studies / women's
issues, with an emphasis on sites of particular use to an academic women's
studies program.”
Women’s
Magazines and Newsletters
“The University of Wisconsin Library website offers a
directory of women-focused magazines and newsletters that are accessible
on the web. One can find anything in this directory, from journals on Asian
women, lesbians of color to leadership issues, Legal concerns, motherhood,
and feminist scholarship.”
Women’s
News
“Independent news service covering the issues that are
of particular concern to women.”
World Press Review
“Drawing upon publications around the globe, and a network
of correspondents in dozens of countries, World Press Review illuminates
the issues that barely see the light of day in the mainstream U.S. press,
translating, reprinting, analyzing, and contextualizing the best of the
international press from more than 20 languages.”
World Socialist Web Site
“Provides analysis of major world events, comments on
political, cultural, historical and philosophical issues, and valuable
documents and studies from the heritage of the socialist movement.”
Zmag
“Z is an independent political magazine of critical thinking
on political, cultural, social, and economic life in the United States.
It sees the racial, sexual, political, and class dimensions of personal
life as fundamental to understanding and improving contemporary circumstances
and it aims to assist activist efforts to attain a better future.”
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