 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. |
 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. |
 Media Watch - http://www.mediawatch.com Organization focusing on media literacy and the challenging of stereotypes commonly found in the media. |
 Accuracy in Media - http://www.aim.org/ Conservative watchdog group for fairness, balance and accuracy in news reporting. |
 Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) - http://www.fair.org/ National media watchdog group advocating independence and criticism in journalism. |
 Stats - http://www.stats.org/ Weblog and articles highlight abuses of science and statistics regarding policy issues. |
 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. |
 Columbia Journalism Review - http://www.cjr.org/ Publication serving as a watchdog of the press in all its forms. |
 Tyndall Report - http://www.tyndallreport.com/ Monitoring the American television networks' weekday nightly newscasts. |
 American Journalism Review - http://www.ajr.org National magazine covering all aspects of print, television, radio and online media. |
 Alternative Media Watch - http://www.zmag.org/altmediawatch.htm Media group showcasing underreported news stories and issues. |
 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. |
 MediaChannel.org - http://www.mediachannel.org Nonprofit site dedicated to the political, social, and cultural impacts of the 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 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. |
 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. |
 Adbusters - http://www.adbusters.org Foundation with goal of changing the way society and the mass media interact. |
 National Institute on Media and the Family - http://www.mediafamily.org Providing research and education on the media's effect on families and children. |
 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. |
 On the Media - http://www.onthemedia.org/ Site representing weekly, one-hour National Public Radio program devoted to media criticism and analysis. |
 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. |
 Media Transparency - http://www.mediatransparency.org Watchdog organization tracing funding sources of many media and political organizations. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 NewsTrust - http://beta.newstrust.net/ Online social network that aims to help people identify quality journalism. Sign-in to rate news and opinions. |
 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. |