Advocacy
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
Aggregators
Media Trade Monitor (News)
Field-wide
Columbia Journalism Review (CJR)
Journalism Resources (U. Iowa)
Nieman Foundation for Journalism (Harvard)
Pew Center for the People and the Press Doubling as a database of reports, the Pew Center provides public opinion research center with detailed analyses by topic. Whether political in terms of candidate driven research or issue oriented in terms of the news of the day, the Pew Center is an excellent clearing house of information that also has links to other polling from similar organizations as well. Of special interest is the Political Typology that discusses the difference of Red vs. Blue political divisions in the United States. AB.
Press Think (Jay Rosen)
Television News Archive (Vanderbilt)
Independent, Citizen News
BBC Action Network (formerly iCan)
Indymedia Indymedia was born in 1999 amidst the clouds of tear gas and rubber bullets that were unleashed on the coalition of labor, environmentalists, feminists, anarchists, students, indigenous, queers, and the rainbow of social justice activists who filled the streets of Seattle, transformed the WTO into a household word, and launched a new phase of debate about corporate led globalization and the alternatives. Preexisting networks of radical video and radio activists, free software developers, photographers and grassroots journalists converged to provide a social and technical infrastructure for a 'people's coverage' of the mass mobilization using the principles of open publishing, decentralization, rejection of the commercial logic and movements speaking for themselves. Since that time, Indymedia has rapidly spread around the globe, and has now grown into a decentralized, federated network of over 140 collectives on every continent who work in all media to circulate struggles. Many local collectives have print, radio, or video projects in addition to the website, and news from around the world is syndicated to the global site. To get a sense of the network, it's important not just to look at the Global site, though, but to browse around Independent Media Centers from different cities and continents. New rich-media projects like video.indymedia.org are in development, while the 'net radio projects are highly advanced (see radio.indymedia.org for links to web streams from many local IMCs). SCC.
Indymedia Documentation Project.
National Amateur Press Association
OhMyNews (English)
Infotainment
Center for Media and Public Affairs The empirical data on this site is a useful tool for infotainment scholarship; in particular, I have found the polls on political humor a great resource. Started in 1985, the website says CMPA " is a nonpartisan research and educational organization which conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media. CMPA election studies have played a major role in the ongoing debate over improving the election process. Our continuing analysis and tabulation of late night political jokes provides a lighter look at major news makers. The Center's goal is to provide an empirical basis for ongoing debates over media fairness and impact through well-documented, timely, and readable studies of media content." DW.