Pilgrim's democracy resource list -- alternative media
Explore this array sites for information outside corporate American
mainstream media -- especially for news about media -- and for ways
to become involved, politically, culturally and
socially.
Act for Change
Action
Coalition for Media Change
Adbusters --
working against advertising
Aljazeera
-- online material from the Arab TV network
AlterNet -- an
issue-focused magazine
Alternative Press
Review
Alternet.org
-- a source of alternative news
American Indian Radio
Station
American
Newspeak--Wayne Grytting's e-zine
American Civil
Liberties Union
Amnesty
International
Anti-war dot com
API Convergence Tracker -- lists print-broadcast alliances
The Atlantic wire
Awakening Earth --
a sustainable earth site
Brills
Content -- keeping an eye on media
Center for
American Progress
Center for
Investigative Reporting
Center for
Public Integrity
Center for
Responsive Politics
Commercial Alert
-- protecting communities from commercialism
The Community --
with links to sites like Amnesty International
Common Cause -- Citizens
working against special interest and for reform government
Common
Dreams
Co-op --
using consumer and investor power for social change
Corporate
Watch -- doing just that
Counter Punch
-- "America's best political newsletter"
Covert Action
Quarterly
Crosscut.com -- News of the Seattle
area
Darh
Jamail's Dispatches
Democracy in
Action
Democracy Now
Der
Spiegel
Downhill Battle music activism
FactCheck.org -- nonpartisan site
aimed at reducing deception & confusion in U.S. politics
Fairness and
Accuracy in Reporting
FairWarning -- news of safety, health
&
corporate conduct
FlackCheck.org -- using parody &
humor to debunk false political ads
freeculture.org --
students for free culture
Freepress --
working to craft policies for more democratic media
A Freepress propaganda
accounting
Free Speech TV -- a
progressive & independent TV & multimedia network
Gathering
of Nations -- promotes Native American culture and tradition
Grist -- a beacon in the
smog
Global Footprint Network --
advancing sustainability
Greenpeace
Gregory Palast
-- British media critic
Greenstone Media -- radio news and blog
Ground Zero
Center for Nonviolent Action
Guerrilla News
Network
Halliburton Watch --
just watching
High Country News -- for people who
care about the West
Information Clearing House --- a one-person
alternative news site
Independent media
center -- a grassroots, noncorporate news
coverage
Investigate West
Institute for
Public Accuracy
In These Times --
independent news and views
Iraq Body County
Jim Romensko's
MediaNews -- media opinion and alternative weekly links
Knowmore.org -- find what your
purchases support
The
Konformist
KUGS -- 89.3 radio
Livingeconomies.org --Business
Alliance for Local Living Economies
MediaChannel.org --
global network for democratic media
MediaMatters
for America
Media reform
network -- a resource for public particiation in media policy
debates
Media Report
to Women
Media Tenor --
an international media research site
Media Watch -- the U.S.
anti-media-sexism site
Michael Moore's
resources & links
Middle East Report
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Minimum-Wage.org
Mother Jones -- a
progressive magazine
MoveOn.org --
nonpartisan education
The Nation -- a
progressive magazine
OpenSecrets.org -- tracking
money's effects on U.S. elections
and public policy
National Organization for
women
New England Cener for Investigative
Reporting at Boston University
Newslink -- links to
American and world newspapers and other
media
Nomorefakenews.com
-- news reported by Jon Rappoport
Northwest
Citizen -- Internet News for Whatcom County
OccupyWallStreet
-- the revolution
Ocean Conservancy --
starting a sea change
One Minute for Peace
The Onion --
relief for when the news becomes too much
Open the
Government -- a site that fights government secrecy
The Persuaders -- from PBS Frontline
PolitiFact.com
Project
Censored -- news that goes uncovered by mainstream media
ProPublica -- journalism in
the public interest
Progressive Review
PR Watch
Public Knowledge
PublicCitizen -- defending
democracy, resisting corporate power
Radio.com -- CBS site for
online & internet radio stations
Responsible
Shopper -- being consumer saavy
Responsible
Wealth
Reuters News Service
Save the Internet
Social Change --
supporting work for a better world
Solar Washington
Source Watch -- a Center for Media & Democracy project
Snopes.com -- researching
rumors
The State of the News Media
-- an annual journalism report from PEW
Stay Free Magazine
Stop Big Media
Sunlight Foundation -- making government
accountable
The
Sustainable Village
stop global
warming -- Robert Kennedy Jr.'s bipartisan effort
Take Part
Too Much -- a commentary on excess and
inequality
Trendsmap -- real-time mapping
of Twitter trends
Truthout
TV watch --
a conservative TV monitoring site
Union
of Concerned Scientists
Unknown News -- a site with Afghanistan and Iraq war dead totals
United for
Peace
Utne
Reader -- a dead-on progressive magazine
Voice of Sandiego.org
Vision of
Humanity -- a site of peace and sustainability
Vote Smart
Center
Walmart Watch --
just watching
We can solve the
climate crisis
The Week
Weekly
Standard -- a conservative site from News Corporation
Whatcom Indy
Media
Whatcom
Watch -- a local resource
What liberal
media
Witness
A
World Resource with Peacenet, Womensnet, Econet, etc.
Yes Magazine -- a journal
of positive futures
Z Magazine
Znet -- a community of people
committed to social change
Updated 2012