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Accuracy in Media - Conservative watchdog group for fairness, balance and accuracy in news reporting.
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Adbusters - Foundation with goal of changing the way society and the mass media interact.
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Alternative Media Watch - Media group showcasing underreported news stories and issues.
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American Journalism Review - National magazine covering all aspects of print, television, radio and online media.
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Center for Media and Democracy - 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.
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Center for Media and Public Affairs - Nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization in Washington, D.C., conducting scientific studies of the news and entertainment media.
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Columbia Journalism Review - Publication serving as a watchdog of the press in all its forms.
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FactCheck.org - Annenberg Political Fact Check - 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.
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Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) - National media watchdog group advocating independence and criticism in journalism.
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Global Media Monitoring Project - 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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Independent Press Councils (IPC) - 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.
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Media Matters for America - 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.
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Media Monitors Network - Grass roots watchdog of media coverage which seeks to uncover journalistic and media bias and provide contrary information and opinions.
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Media Research Center - Conservative group founded to bring political balance to the news media and responsibility to the entertainment media.
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Media Transparency - Watchdog organization tracing funding sources of many media and political organizations.
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Media Watch - Organization focusing on media literacy and the challenging of stereotypes commonly found in the media.
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Media Watch (ABC TV) - A leading forum for Australian media analysis. Summary, news, bungled stories and viewable episodes of the weekly program, plus archive of previous coverage.
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MediaChannel.org - Nonprofit site dedicated to the political, social, and cultural impacts of the media.
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Morality in Media - 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.
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National Institute on Media and the Family - Providing research and education on the media's effect on families and children.
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News Hounds - Volunteer watchdog group focused on FOX News. Includes blog, video, newsletter, forum and how to support.
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NewsTrust - Online social network that aims to help people identify quality journalism. Sign-in to rate news and opinions.
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On the Media - Site representing weekly, one-hour National Public Radio program devoted to media criticism and analysis.
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The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press - Independent opinion research group studying attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues.
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PR Watch - Investigative reporting on the practices of public-relations and public affairs industry, from the Center for Media and Democracy.
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Press Complaints Commission - Independent organisation monitoring British newspapers and magazines to ensure they adhere to ethical guidelines. Deals with issues such as inaccuracy, privacy, misrepresentation and harassment.
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Project Censored - Locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for one reason or another.
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SourceWatch - Regulating Media Content - Encyclopedia article focused U.S. bills aimed at regulating social media.
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Stats - Weblog and articles highlight abuses of science and statistics regarding policy issues.
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Stinky Journalism - Lists questionable media cases and calls for improved journalistic fact-finding and fact-checking methods. Practical tools challenge readers and writers to test parcels of information to find the discerning facts.
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Tyndall Report - Monitoring the American television networks' weekday nightly newscasts.
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Media Matters for America - Reports and critique of recent incidents of conservative political bias in the U.S. media. [RSS]
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