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Accuracy in Media - http://www.aim.org/
Conservative watchdog group for fairness, balance and accuracy in news reporting.

Adbusters - http://www.adbusters.org
Foundation with goal of changing the way society and the mass media interact.

Alternative Media Watch - http://www.zmag.org/altmediawatch.htm
Media group showcasing underreported news stories and issues.

American Journalism Review - http://www.ajr.org
National magazine covering all aspects of print, television, radio and online media.

Center for Media and Democracy - http://www.prwatch.org/
A wiki-based investigative journalism collaborative focused on the public relations industry and whistle-blowing manipulative or misleading practices. Contribute to a quarterly investigative journal, the Weekly Spin listserv, donate or draw on newsfeeds.

Center for Media and Public Affairs - http://www.cmpa.com
Nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization in Washington, D.C., conducting scientific studies of the news and entertainment media.

Columbia Journalism Review - http://www.cjr.org/
Publication serving as a watchdog of the press in all its forms.

FactCheck.org - Annenberg Political Fact Check - http://www.factcheck.org/
Monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases. Offers email newsletter.

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) - http://www.fair.org/
National media watchdog group advocating independence and criticism in journalism.

Global Media Monitoring Project - http://www.whomakesthenews.org/
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.stats.org/ - http://www.stats.org/
Weblog and articles highlight abuses of science and statistics regarding policy issues.

Independent Press Councils (IPC) - http://www.media-accountability.org
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.

Media Matters for America - http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/latest.rss
Reports and critique of recent incidents of conservative political bias in the U.S. media.

Media Matters for America - http://mediamatters.org/
A non-profit progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. Founded by David Brock, a conservative media insider.

Media Monitors Network - http://www.mediamonitors.net
Grass roots watchdog of media coverage which seeks to uncover journalistic and media bias and provide contrary information and opinions.

Media Research Center - http://www.mediaresearch.org/
Conservative group founded to bring political balance to the news media and responsibility to the entertainment media.

Media Transparency - http://www.mediatransparency.org
Watchdog organization tracing funding sources of many media and political organizations.

Media Watch - http://www.mediawatch.com
Organization focusing on media literacy and the challenging of stereotypes commonly found in the media.

Media Watch (ABC TV) - http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/
A leading forum for Australian media analysis. Summary, news, bungled stories and viewable episodes of the weekly program, plus archive of previous coverage.

MediaChannel.org - http://www.mediachannel.org
Nonprofit site dedicated to the political, social, and cultural impacts of the media.

Morality in Media - http://www.moralityinmedia.org/
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.

National Institute on Media and the Family - http://www.mediafamily.org
Providing research and education on the media's effect on families and children.

News Hounds - http://www.newshounds.us/
Volunteer watchdog group focused on FOX News. Includes blog, video, newsletter, forum and how to support.

NewsTrust - http://newstrust.net/
Online social network that aims to help people identify quality journalism. Sign-in to rate news and opinions.

On the Media - http://www.onthemedia.org/
Site representing weekly, one-hour National Public Radio program devoted to media criticism and analysis.

PR Watch - http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/index.html
Investigative reporting on the practices of public-relations and public affairs industry, from the Center for Media and Democracy.

Press Complaints Commission - http://www.pcc.org.uk/
Independent organisation monitoring British newspapers and magazines to ensure they adhere to ethical guidelines. Deals with issues such as inaccuracy, privacy, misrepresentation and harassment.

Project Censored - http://www.projectcensored.org
Locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for one reason or another.

SourceWatch - Regulating Media Content - http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Regulating_media_content
Encyclopedia article focused U.S. bills aimed at regulating social media.

Stinky Journalism - http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/
Lists questionable media cases and calls for improved journalistic fact-finding and fact-checking methods. Practical tools challenge readers and writers to test parcels of information to find the discerning facts.

Stinky Journalism - http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/rss/feed.php
A forum to air the stink that may have otherwise gone undetected in news stories today.

The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press - http://people-press.org/
Independent opinion research group studying attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues.

Tyndall Report - http://www.tyndallreport.com/
Monitoring the American television networks' weekday nightly newscasts.

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