ALTERNATIVE MEDIA LINKS
AlterNet
AlterNet.org, launched in 1998, is a project of the
Independent Media Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated
to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative
journalism. It provides a mix of news, opinion and investigative
journalism on subjects ranging from the environment, the
drug war, technology and cultural trends to policy debate,
sexual politics and health issues. The AlterNet article
database includes more than 7,000 stories from over 200
sources.
American
Prospect
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. They publish articles for the
general reader that attempt to break through conventional
understanding and creatively reframe public questions. It
is not a magazine of complaint, of angry gestures, or of
private irritations. It is a magazine of public ideas, firmly
committed -- however unfashionably -- to a belief in public
improvement.
Common
Dreams News Center
Breaking News and Views for the Progressive Community
The
Communications Consortium Media Center (CCMC) helps
nonprofit organizations use media and new telecommunications
technologies as tools for public education and policy
change.
CounterPunch
CounterPunch is the bi-weekly muckraking newsletter
bringing readers the stories that the corporate press never
prints.
FAIR
A site promoting Media Activism
Free
Press
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.
Guerrilla
News Network
Guerrilla News Network is an underground news organization
with headquarters in New York City and production facilities
in Berkeley, California. Their mission is to expose people
to important global issues through guerrilla programming
on the web and on television.
Hear
Us Now a project of the Consumer's Union, promotes
a fair and just marketplace by empowering consumers
to fight for better and more affordable telephone,
cable and Internet services or equipment. By focusing
on major media, technology and communications issues
and emphasizing local stories, HearUsNow.org will help
explain increasingly complex issues and the connections
between these issues, underscore what's at stake, and
offer ways to make improvements.
The
Hill
The Hill is a non-partisan, non-ideological weekly newspaper
that describes the inner workings of Congress, the pressures
confronting policy makers and the many ways -- often unpredictable
-- in which decisions are made.
Independent
Media Center
The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively
run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate,
and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love
and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better
world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness
to cover the efforts to free humanity.
The
Mainstream Media Project
Founded in 1995, the Mainstream Media Project is a nonprofit
public education organization that places top policy analysts
and social innovators on radio stations across the country
and around the world. The project focuses on current news
events to bring the attention of producers and the public
to the larger questions surrounding these issues. The project
seeks to re-establish a healthy balance in the national
debate by introducing a vital new generation of informed
and persuasive voices to the mainstream broadcast media.
Media
Channel
A media-oriented website dedicated to global issues
and created to foster more diverse and responsible media.
The
Nation
The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect,
or body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort
to bring to the discussion of political and social questions
a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices
of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which
so much of the political writing of the day is marred. c
New
Dimensions Radio
New Dimensions Broadcasting Network is an independent,
listener-supported producer and distributor of public radio,
shortwave and internet programs, dedicated to presenting
a diversity of views from many traditions and cultures,
and strives to impart practical knowledge and perennial
wisdom.
Real
Voices
Our mission is to give ordinary Americans a voice in the
political process. In powerful 60-second radio and TV spots,
our real citizens address the president in front of an audience
of thousands of potential voters.
Truth
Out
An alternative news source providing critical news and
commentary on world events
Znet
Znet 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.
MEDIA
LITERACY LINKS
Alliance for Media Literate America
The AMLA is committed to promoting media literacy
education that is focused on critical inquiry, learning, and skill-building
rather than on media-bashing and blame. This national, grassroots membership
organization will be a key force in bringing media literacy education to
all 60 million students in the United States, their parents, their teachers,
and others who care about youth.
Association of
Transformative Media Arts
ATMA's purpose is to support
the cultivation of personal, professional and
creative integrity in the media business, and
to encourage the creation of programs that educate
and enlighten as well as entertain.
Freedom
Forum
A nonpartisan foundation dedicated to
free press, free speech and free spirit for
all people. The foundation focuses on three
main priorities: the Newseum, First Amendment
freedoms and newsroom diversity.
Just
Think
The Just Think Foundation (JTF) a nonprofit
dedicated to teaching young people literacy by providing them
with the skills to be critical thinkers and creative producers.
Reporters
Without Borders
More than a third of the world's people
live in countries where there is no press freedom.
Reporters Without Borders works constantly to
restore their right to be informed.
POSITIVE MEDIA LINKS
DreamTime Online
Producers of The Emerging Paradigm Online Radio
Show with John English. There has for some time been a new
paradigm emerging that has answers to many of the challenges
facing our world today. We are dedicated to seeing this paradigm
become a reality and making its existence known to as many
people as possible.
Good News Agency
Good News Agency carries positive and constructive news
from all over the world and is distributed through the Internet
to over 2,300 editorial offices of the daily newspapers
and periodical magazines as well as radio and television
stations in 38 countries.
Good News Network
is a clearinghouse for the gathering anddissemination of
positive news stories. We present the glorifying, NOT the
horrifying.
Positive
News Network
Positive News is a free weekly newsletter that shares inspiring
stories, motivational/inspirational quotes and positive
links.
Radio
Positive
Radiopositive is a unique source of music that contains
messages that are positive and uplifting and promote unity
and community regardless of personal beliefs. Their belief
is if we focus on positive messages even though there is
negativity all around us we can create a positive world
first for ourselves and gradually for everyone.
Real
News Network
The Real News is a non-profit, member supported news and
documentary network
focused on providing independent and uncompromising journalism.
Our staff, in collaboration with courageous journalists
around the globe, investigate, report and debate stories
on the critical issues of our times.
Share
International Media Service
Share International Media Service volunteers maintain private
a web site containing numerous articles, previously published
in Share International magazine, available to journalists
and editors around the world, free of charge. Its purpose
is to stimulate the practical action needed to rebuild our
world along more just and compassionate lines.
Stop
Big Media is made up of groups from across the spectrum
that have banded together to stop the FCC from allowing a
handful of giant corporations to dominate America's media
system.
Yes
Magazine
Yes Magazine is a publication of the Positive Future's
Network whose goal is to enhance the power of people working to
create a more just, sustainable, and compassionate future by increasing
their public visibility,their sense of interconnection, and their
access to visions, tools, stories and techniques for change. To
that end, the Network publishes YES! A Journal of Positive Futures,
which combines analysis of key problems with news of actions people
are taking in the United States and around the world to create
a more positive future. Stories commonly report on similar actions
in many places that reveal patterns that show the potential for
significant social change.
FOREIGN PRESS LINKS
BBC
News
News stories that often do not appear in the US mainstream media.
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