Resources :: Media as a Tool for Strengthening Democracy
The National Center for Media Engagement
The National Center for Media Engagement supports and strengthens public media as community institutions that are essential to a healthy democracy. In service of this vision, we provide leadership, guidance, and resources, experiment with new technologies, identify best practices, and create and deliver community engagement initiatives on every platform.
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
FAIR is the national media watch group, offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. Their work, centered around revitalizing the 1st Amendment, advocates for greater diversity in the press and scrutinizes media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints.
Common Dreams is a nonprofit, progressive, nonpartisan citizens' organization with millions of monthly readers around the world. This site offers a powerful online voice for change- publishing breaking news and the latest ideas, opinions and in-depth analysis by some of the world's best progressive writers, thinkers and activists.
AlterNet is an award-winning news magazine and online community that creates original journalism and amplifies the best of hundreds of other independent media sources. AlterNet’s aim is to inspire action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, health care issues, and more.
In These Times is a nonprofit and independent newsmagazine committed to political and economic democracy and opposed to the dominance of transnational corporations and the tyranny of marketplace values over human values.
“The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect, or body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred.” – from The Nation's founding prospectus, 1865
YES! Magazine reframes the biggest problems of our time in terms of their solutions. Online and in print, we outline a path forward with in-depth analysis, tools for citizen engagement, and stories about real people working for a better world.