The Media and Democracy Coalition is a collaboration of 25 local and national organizations committed to amplifying the voices of the public in shaping media and telecommunications policy.
project of the Center for Media and Democracy to produce a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. SourceWatch's primary focus is on documenting public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and in
social news network aimed at helping people identify quality journalism -- or "news you can trust." This free, not-for-profit service offers the most trusted news of the day, as selected by community members using state-of-the-art media literacy tools.
FlowTV is a critical forum on television and media culture published by the Department of Radio, Television, and Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Flow’s mission is to provide a space where the public can discuss the changing landscape of contemporary media.
The authoritative journal covering all aspects of the North American newspaper industry, including business, newsroom, advertising, circulation, marketing, technology, online and syndicates.
This site is a collection of headlines from around the web, documenting the sad decline of traditional publishing. We love traditional media. Regardless, this seems to be the way of the world, and so we offer this site as an ephemeral chronicle of traditional media’s decline.
The first Media in Transition conference was held in 1999 and marked the launch of the MIT graduate program in Comparative Media Studies. Since then, four bi-annual conferences have been held
Mediagazer, which will focus on the content production and distribution business, organizing topics as wide as journalism, blogging, video production, e-books, and digital distribution technologies. From the same people who created Techmeme memeorandum, WeSmirch, and Ballbug.
This year’s report is the most interactive it’s ever been, and contains a number of new features. A Year in the News Interactive, for instance, allows users to explore for themselves our content database of some 68,000 stories from 55 different news outlets. Users can look at what they want, answer their own questions and create their own charts. Who Owns the News Media is a new multi-dimensional directory of the more than 120 companies that own news properties in the United States that allows users to explore and compare companies by sector, revenue, and audience.
The Community Information Toolkit will help community leaders like you harness the power of information to advance their goals for a better community. It offers a process and a simple, easy-to-use set of tools to help you take stock of your community’s news and information flow and take action to improve it. The tools are forms and surveys and reports.
Led by local attorney Art Neill and media activist Mera Szendro Bok, New Media Rights (newmediarights.org) provides pro-bono legal advice, free production-studio resources and organizes networking events—including Drumbeat, a February event sponsored by Mozilla, where Open San Diego, Cops and InstantIMPACT each held workshops and discussions.
BUFVC hosts, curates and delivers 9 substantial online databases relating to film, television and radio content dating from 1896 onwards. You can now search more than 13 million records in one go or one collection at a time. Some items metadata only. News on screen: 180,000 newsreel and cinemagazine stories linked to production documents and films together with articles, case studies and website directory; Education: 30,000 titles, on a range of different formats, specifically chosen for their use in further and higher education; Shakespeare: Shakespeare-related content is international in scope and holds over 7,000 records dating from the 1890s to the present day; TVTimes listings from 1955 - 1985 This Week: Programme information from ITV's first current affairs series; LBC/IRN Audio Archive; ILR South radio archive; ILR radio archive; TRILT: UK television and radio;
PBS Learning Media is a dynamic platform offering the best of public media content and produced specifically for PreK-16 teachers. With free access to over 14,000 high-quality resources tied to national standards, teachers can download, save and share exactly what they need for an inspired classroom experience. holds more than 14,000 “digital learning objects” — videos, curricula, images, audio, and interactive sites