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Accuracy in Media - - Conservative watchdog group for fairness, balance and accuracy in news reporting.

Adbusters - - Foundation with goal of changing the way society and the mass media interact.

Alternative Media Watch - - Media group showcasing underreported news stories and issues.

American Journalism Review - - National magazine covering all aspects of print, television, radio and online media.

Center for Media and Public Affairs - - Nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization in Washington, D.C., conducting scientific studies of the news and entertainment media.

Columbia Journalism Review - - Publication serving as a watchdog of the press in all its forms.

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) - - National media watchdog group advocating independence and criticism in journalism.

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.

Media Monitors Network (MMN) - - Non-profit, non-partial and non-political platform for serious media contributors and observers.

Media Research Center - - Conservative group founded to bring political balance to the news media and responsibility to the entertainment media.

Media Talk - - Wisconsin Public Radio show looking at current issues inside network television, cable, newspapers, magazines, the Internet and radio. Hosted by Dave Berkman. Audio archives link included.

Media Transparency - - Watchdog organization tracing funding sources of many media and political organizations.

Media Watch - - Organization focusing on media literacy and the challenging of stereotypes commonly found in the media.

MediaChannel.org - - Nonprofit site dedicated to the political, social, and cultural impacts of the media.

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.

National Institute on Media and the Family - - Providing research and education on the media's effect on families and children.

On the Media - - Site representing weekly, one-hour National Public Radio program devoted to media criticism and analysis.

The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press - - Independent opinion research group studying attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues.

PR Watch - - Investigative reporting on the practices of public-relations and public affairs industry, from the Center for Media and Democracy.

Project Censored - - Locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for one reason or another.

Stats - - Weblog and articles highlight abuses of science and statistics regarding policy issues.

Tyndall Report - - Monitoring the American television networks' weekday nightly newscasts.