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278 Listings - DR (8/10)278 Listings - DR (8/10) 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.
On Target - DR (8/10)On Target - DR (8/10) 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.
On Target - DR (8/10)On Target - DR (8/10) Media Watch - http://www.mediawatch.com
Organization focusing on media literacy and the challenging of stereotypes commonly found in the media.
On Target - DR (8/10)On Target - DR (8/10) Accuracy in Media - http://www.aim.org/
Conservative watchdog group for fairness, balance and accuracy in news reporting.
47 Listings - DR (7/10)47 Listings - DR (7/10) Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) - http://www.fair.org/
National media watchdog group advocating independence and criticism in journalism.
On Target - DR (6/10)On Target - DR (6/10) Stats - http://www.stats.org/
Weblog and articles highlight abuses of science and statistics regarding policy issues.
On Target - DR (6/10)On Target - DR (6/10) 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.
12 Listings - DR (6/10)12 Listings - DR (6/10) Columbia Journalism Review - http://www.cjr.org/
Publication serving as a watchdog of the press in all its forms.
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) Tyndall Report - http://www.tyndallreport.com/
Monitoring the American television networks' weekday nightly newscasts.
90 Listings - DR (5/10)90 Listings - DR (5/10) Alternative Media Watch - http://www.zmag.org/altmediawatch.htm
Media group showcasing underreported news stories and issues.
26 Listings - DR (5/10)26 Listings - DR (5/10) 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.
10 Listings - DR (4/10)10 Listings - DR (4/10) Media Research Center - http://www.mediaresearch.org/
Conservative group founded to bring political balance to the news media and responsibility to the entertainment media.
15 Listings - DR (4/10)15 Listings - DR (4/10) MediaChannel.org - http://www.mediachannel.org
Nonprofit site dedicated to the political, social, and cultural impacts of the media.
5 Listings - DR (4/10)5 Listings - DR (4/10) 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.
5 Listings - DR (4/10)5 Listings - DR (4/10) 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.
On Target - DR (4/10)On Target - DR (4/10) 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.
9 Listings - DR (4/10)9 Listings - DR (4/10) Adbusters - http://www.adbusters.org
Foundation with goal of changing the way society and the mass media interact.
5 Listings - DR (4/10)5 Listings - DR (4/10) National Institute on Media and the Family - http://www.mediafamily.org
Providing research and education on the media's effect on families and children.
6 Listings - DR (4/10)6 Listings - DR (4/10) 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 Target - DR (4/10)On Target - DR (4/10) On the Media - http://www.onthemedia.org/
Site representing weekly, one-hour National Public Radio program devoted to media criticism and analysis.
On Target - DR (3/10)On Target - DR (3/10) 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.
On Target - DR (3/10)On Target - DR (3/10) Media Transparency - http://www.mediatransparency.org
Watchdog organization tracing funding sources of many media and political organizations.
On Target - DR (3/10)On Target - DR (3/10) 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.
6 Listings - DR (3/10)6 Listings - DR (3/10) 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.
19 Listings - DR (2/10)19 Listings - DR (2/10) 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.
19 Listings - DR (2/10)19 Listings - DR (2/10) 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.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) NewsTrust - http://newstrust.net/
Online social network that aims to help people identify quality journalism. Sign-in to rate news and opinions.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Stinky Journalism - http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/
Art Science Research Laboratory's Media Ethics Project works to improve journalistic methodology, holding the media accountable by examining concrete, measurable errors of fact and ethical breaches encountered in the press.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Stinky Journalism - http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/rss/feed.php
Advocating for more rigorous and scientific journalistic methodology.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) 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.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) News Hounds - http://www.newshounds.us/
Volunteer watchdog group focused on FOX News. Includes blog, video, newsletter, forum and how to support.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) 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.

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