This page contains links to web resources that pertain to the media, democracy and public policy, including the television stations whose broadcasts comprise the database. This page will be updated and modified regularly.
Links to various organizations which address issues of the media, democracy and public policy.
Note: Most of these non-University of Delaware links work in any browser; some may work only in Internet Explorer.
www.journalism.org/ The online home of the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) and the Committee of Concerned Journalists. PEJ provided the videotapes of the broadcasts from which the stories in the database on our Web site were digitized.
www.stanford.edu/group/gradethenews Grade the News is a media research project focusing on the quality of the news media in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is affiliated with and based at Stanford University’s Graduate Program in Journalism. (Mission statement)
www.cmpa.com/ The Center for Media & Public Affairs
www.localnewsarchive.org The Lear Center Local News Archive is a unique resource for academics, journalists and the public. Currently, this site offers access to a video archive of campaign news stories aired on local television stations during the 2004 campaign (Web statement)
www.freepress.net Free Press is a non-profit organization working to involve the public in media policymaking and to craft policies for a more democratic media system (Mission statement)
www.publicintegrity.org The Center for Public Integrity is a non-profit, non-partisan corporation supported by foundations and individual contributors. The Center's mission is to provide sound and honest analyses of the activities of the government, public officials and corporate leaders for the public. (Annual Report 2003).
www.projectcensored.org/ Project Censored. The primary objective of Project Censored is to explore and publicize the extent of censorship in our society by locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for one reason or another. (Mission statement)
www.nielsenmedia.com/ Nielsen Media Research
www.freedomforum.org/ The Freedom Forum
www.rtnda.org/ The Radio-Television News Directors Association and Foundation
www.people-press.org/ The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
www.mediaaccess.org/ The Media Access Project
www.prometheusradio.org/ Prometheus Radio Project has played a key role in the struggle to get licenses for community radio stations. Prometheus practices a mixture of research, advocacy, activism and direct services to organizations that want to start radio stations on the newly won rules for neighborhood radio. (Mission statement)
www.mediatank.org/ Media Tank is a non-profit organization working to bring together media arts, education and activism to build broader awareness and support for media as a vital civic, cultural and communications resource. (Mission statement)
www.mediachannel.org/ MediaChannel.org is a nonprofit, public interest Web site dedicated to global media issues. MediaChannel offers news, reports and commentary from our international network of media-issues organizations and publications, as well as original features from contributors and staff. (Mission Statement)
www.democraticmedia.org/index.html The Center for Digital Democracy is committed to preserving the openness and diversity of the Internet in the broadband era, and to realizing the full potential of digital communications through the development and encouragement of noncommercial, public interest programming. (Mission statement)
www.fcc.gov/ The Federal Communications Commission
www.fair.org/ Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). Media watch group.
www.aim.org/ Accuracy in Media
www.bettertv.org/promo.html. Project on Media Ownership, a research center in affiliation with New York University
www.bigmedia.org/ Rocky Mountain Media Watch
www.mediaresearch.org/ Media Research Center
www.healthjournalism.org/ Association of Health Care Journalists
www.ConcernedJournalists.org/ Committee of Concerned Journalists