These groups are listed alphabetically for your convenience.

Media Literacy Organizations

Center for Media Literacy, "a not-for-profit membership which believes that media literacy is a critical life skill for children and adults in today's media culture."

Just Think Foundation "is dedicated to teaching young people literacy for the 21st century by providing them with the skills to be critical thinkers and creative producers."

Media Awareness Network "a Canadian site offering practical support for media education and providing information and "food for thought" on our fast-evolving media culture; provides both curriculum-related media and Web literacy teaching materials."

Media Education Foundation is "a non-profit educational organization devoted to media research and production of resources to aid educators and others in fostering analytical media literacy."

Media Watch "challenging abusive stereotypes and other biased images commonly found in the media through education and action. "

National Telemedia Council is "a professional, non-profit organization promoting media literacy education through partnerships with educators, informed citizens, and media producers across the country."

New Mexico Media Literacy provides media literacy CD-ROMS, videos and curricula.

Project Look Sharp, an Ithaca, New York initiative that "promotes and supports the integration of media literacy into classroom curricula at all grade levels and instructional areas, and evaluates the effectiveness of media literacy education in the schools."

The Canadian Association for Media Education Organizations "is an association of Canadian media literacy groups from across Canada, which advocate, promote and develop media literacy in Canada."

The Jesuit Communication Project - Toronto is a web site constructed by a team of teachers from Ontario, Canada schools.

Media Watch & Media Analysis

Accuracy in Media (AIM) "is one of the oldest conservative media monitoring groups in existence. AIM maintains an extensive archive of their materials on-line."

American Press Institute "features an ongoing series of articles about the news industry's coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, with advice on how to produce the news and manage a business during a period of high alert and uncertainty.

Center for Media & Democracy, "a nonprofit, public interest organization and serves citizens, journalists and researchers seeking to recognize and combat manipulative and misleading PR practices."

EFF: The Electronic Frontier Foundation "is a non-profit civil liberties organization working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to public resources and information in new media."

Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) "a national media watch group, has been offering criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986."

Freedom Forum "is a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. The foundation focuses on three main priorities: the Newseum, First Amendment freedoms and newsroom diversity."

Freedom of Information Center, "established in 1958, the center now has a collection of more than 1 million articles and documents about access to information at the state, federal and local levels, in addition to a wide collection of online document accessible through its web page."

Grade the News "is founded by a group of educators, ethicists, public broadcasters and citizens concerned about the effect of unrestrained market forces on the quality of local news."

Independent Media Center "is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth."

MediaChannel, "a nonprofit, public interest Web site dedicated to global media issues, is concerned with the political, cultural and social impacts of the media, large and small and exists to provide information and diverse perspectives and inspire debate, collaboration, action and citizen engagement."

Media Research Center (MRC) "is a conservative media watchdog group that conducts numerous studies of the news and entertainment media. MRC maintains a large videotape archive which is accessible to researchers under certain conditions."

MediaScope "is a national, nonprofit research and policy organization working to promote issues of social relevance within the entertainment industry, particularly as they relate to children and adolescents."

Media Space "is created by the Media Education Foundation and shows how media penetrates our daily lives."

Newswatch "from the non-partisan and non-profit Center for Media and Public Affairs, is a good web site for news analysis and critique, with breaking news and insightful articles."

New York Times Media Literacy Links media literacy curriculum from the New York Times.

Pew Center for Civic Journalism "is an incubator for civic journalism experiments that allow news organizations to create and refine better ways of reporting the news to re-engage people in public life."

Political Commercial Archive is an extensive collection of campaign commercials from a variety of electoral contests over the past decades. The archive is maintained by the University of Oklahoma and is accessible to researchers.

Project Censored is a media research group at Sonoma State University, California, that locates stories about significant news issues of which the American public should be aware, but is not. Publishes the annual yearbook "Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News."

Rocky Mountain Media Watch, "challenging citizens to resist and change the manipulative and toxic formulas of Big Media news products."

The Center for Research on the Effects of Television (CRETV) "was begun at Cornell University in 1983 and has two components: an archive of television content and a research lab conducting studies of the content of television and its effects on viewers."

The Drudge Report The page describes itself it is a mix of fact, innuendo and gossip, so it may be useful to some researchers. The most useful feature is an incredibly extensive list of links to media organizations of many types.

The FCC the official site of the Federal Communications Commission.

Understanding The Ratings System

Vanderbilt Television News Archive is "the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news." The site allows users to search abstracts of news stories, making it a very research friendly stop.

Zap2it.com is an useful site for information on television, TV ratings and miscellaneous minutiae on television. The site "combines the best of MovieQuest and UltimateTV into one site and adds extensive online entertainment listings information. "