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Media Outlets and Products | Ethnic and Global Media | Alternative Media | Media Theories and Analysis | Media History and Archives | Media Watchdogs | Media Organizations | Miscellaneous

Media Outlets and Products

ABC News
Alternate Press Index (Print index available in Healey)
Al-Ahram Weekly Online
Al Arabiya (Arabic)
All Hurra (English; limited)
Al Jazeera Net (In Arabic)
Al Jazeera (English)
Associated Press
Bloomberg
British Broadcasting Coorporation (BBC)
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Capitol Records (Hollywood and Vine)
CBS
CEO Express
China Internet Information Center
CNET Today - Technology News
CNN
Cursor (Gateway to hundreds of media outlets and watchdogs)
Daily Nation (Kenya)
Disney Online
DMOZ News Media Directory
East African (Weekly)
Egypt Daily News
ESPN Sports
Federal News Service
Fox News
Gebbie Press All-in-One Media Directory (Print-only directory; contents not available on line)
Global Media Monitor
Google News
Gulf Times (Qatar)
Islamic Republic (Iran) News Agency
ITAR-TASS (Russian News Agency)
Japan Times (English)
Jerusalem Post
Kyodo News
MSNBC
Music Videos (Yahoo)
NBC VideoSeeker
The Nation
National Public Radio
Newsweek Online (Managed by MSNBC)
The Onion (Satirical)
People's Daily
Palestine News Agency
Pravda (English)
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Radio Locator (Internet Broadcasts)
Reuters
Salon (Online news magazine)
Slate (Online news magazine)
Scripps Howard News Service
Time Magazine Online Edition
TV Guide
Universal Studios Online
Utne Reader
Warner Bros.
Windows Media Showcase
WorldNews Network
Xinhua News Agency (In English)

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Ethnic and Global Media

Asian American Film
The Black World Today
Globalinfo.org ("Daily news service of the developing world")
Hispanic Online (Comprehensive Latino news source)
New California Media

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Alternative Media

Alternative Media Resources
Alternative Media Watch
Alternate Press Center Online Directory (Print index available in Healey)
Alternet.Org
The American Conservative
Counterpunch
Cybercast News Service (Arm of Media Research Center)
The Drudge Report
Front Page Magazine
The Idler
iFeminist.Com
Independent Media Center
Independent Press Association
LA Weekly
LewRockwell.Com
The Memory Hole
mediachannel.org ("Global network for democratic media")
The Onion (Satirical)
Mike's Picks (of Alternative Media; comprehensive)
Social Critic Review
Sojo Alternative Media Directory
World Net Daily
antiwar.com
Yellow Times

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Media Theories and Analysis; Journalism

Agenda Setting Theory - Mass Communication Context
Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
The American Communication Association Studies Center, Mass Media and Culture
Center for Media and Public Affairs-Home of Media Analysis
Communication Institute for Online Scholarship
Counterintelligence (A "Metasite" on "Tools for Media Analysis")
First Monday
MCS Analysis of Media Texts
Media and Communication Studies Site
Media Studies Working Group, Reading List on Media and Society (Ryerson University)
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Committee of Concerned Journalists
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
Skeptic's Dictionary and Refuge - Mass Media Bunk
Sociology and Philosophy Essays TV and Violence
Teacher Resources - Worksheets and Tools (Guide to photographic analysis, for example)
World Net Daily

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Media on Media

Cursor (Gateway to *many* US and international media outlets, plus commentary on media)
Hollywood Online
Media Analysis (The Nation)
Media Life (Online magazine)
MediaMatters (PBS Commentary on Media)
On the Media (New York City Public Radio)
Online Journalism Review (USC Annenberg School of Communications)
Politech (Declan McCullagh's technology and politics list)
Studies of the Mass Mediums (A terrific metasite with links to products, theory, etc.)

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Media History and Archives

The American Museum of the Moving Image (Includes footage of Presidential Campaign Ads)
The Broadcast Archive (Radio History on the Web!)
Google Search History of Radio (Example of what a Google Search can generate)
Google Search Printing Press (Another example)
The Information Age and the Printing Press
Library of American Broadcasting
The Media History Project
Museum of Broadcast Communications
Newseum
NPR Archives
Old Time Radio Script Library
Photo Album: Attack on the US (US Dept. of State International Information Programs)
Pulitzer Prize Photos on the Newseum
Theory.org
Television History - The First 75 Years
TV News Archive Vanderbilt University

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Media Watchdogs

Accuracy in Media

Adbusters

American Politics Journal
Bartcop.Com
Benton Foundation

Buzzflash

Center for Media and Democracy

Center for Media and Public Affairs
ChronWatch (Focuses on San Francisco Chronicle)

CMD's Disinfopedia

Columbia Journalism Review
Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA)

Committee to Protect Journalists
Counterintelligence (A "Metasite" on "Tools for Media Analysis")
Cursor
Disinformation

Environmental News Services
Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting The National Media Watch Group

The Freedom Forum
GLAAD (Promotes fair and accurate images of LGBT in media)
Institute for Public Accuracy
Journalism Ethics (San Francisco State University digest of issues)
The Funny Papers (8 entries, 1996, San Francisco Bay area)
Media Alliance
The Media Bias Web Site (South Florida; Radio; Talk Shows)

Media Channel
Media Research Center
Media Transparency

MediaWatch
Media Whores

National Coalition Against Censorship

NewsWatch
Online Journal

The Online News Hour
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

Project for Excellence in Journalism
Skeptic's Dictionary and Refuge - Mass Media Bunk
Transparency Now

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Media Industry Professional Organizations

American Advertising Federation
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Independent Press Association
National Association for Black Journalists
Radio-Television News Directors Association
Publication Relations Society of America
Society of Professional Journalists

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Miscellaneous

Center for Investigative Reporting (Muckraker)
Communication Initiative (Communication and media for developing countries)
Doing Journalism -- Poynter Institute (Issues for journalists, especially writers)
Hollywood Investigator ("Shocking links for investigative minds")
The Maynard Institute
The Internet Movie Data Base
Internet Traffic Report
Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.
Museum of Hoaxes (See especially, photographic hoaxes; Thanks to Kim Slack)
Speech and Transcript Center (Up-to-date, chiefly remarks by government officials, international; links to audio files)
Urban Legends
Movie Review Query Engine

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