- On the Media - Site representing weekly, one-hour National Public Radio program devoted to media criticism and analysis.
- PR Watch - Investigative reporting on the practices of public-relations and public affairs industry, from the Center for Media and Democracy.
- Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) - National media watchdog group advocating independence and criticism in journalism.
- Media Watch - Organization focusing on media literacy and the challenging of stereotypes commonly found in the media.
- Columbia Journalism Review - Publication serving as a watchdog of the press in all its forms.
- SourceWatch - Regulating Media Content - Encyclopedia article focused U.S. bills aimed at regulating social media.
- 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.
- National Institute on Media and the Family - Providing research and education on the media's effect on families and children.
- Center for Media and Public Affairs - Nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization in Washington, D.C., conducting scientific studies of the news and entertainment media.
- The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press - Independent opinion research group studying attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- NewsTrust - Online social network that aims to help people identify quality journalism. Sign-in to rate news and opinions.
- 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.
- News Hounds - Volunteer watchdog group focused on FOX News. Includes blog, video, newsletter, forum and how to support.
- Stats - Weblog and articles highlight abuses of science and statistics regarding policy issues.
- MediaChannel.org - Nonprofit site dedicated to the political, social, and cultural impacts of the media.
- Adbusters - Foundation with goal of changing the way society and the mass media interact.
- Media Monitors Network - Grass roots watchdog of media coverage which seeks to uncover journalistic and media bias and provide contrary information and opinions.
- Project Censored - Locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for one reason or another.
- Tyndall Report - Monitoring the American television networks' weekday nightly newscasts.
- Media Transparency - Watchdog organization tracing funding sources of many media and political organizations.
- 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.
- Accuracy in Media - Conservative watchdog group for fairness, balance and accuracy in news reporting.
- 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.
- Media Research Center - Conservative group founded to bring political balance to the news media and responsibility to the entertainment media.
- Stinky Journalism - Art Science Research Laboratory's Media Ethics Project works to improve journalistic methodology, holding the media accountable by examining concrete, measurable errors of fact and ethical breaches encountered in the press.
- 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.
- The Center for Public Integrity - Ongoing investigative research and reports on public policy issues in the US and the world. Searchable databases include the Media Tracker which shows who owns the media in any zip code area.
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- Media Matters for America (RSS) - Reports and critique of recent incidents of conservative political bias in the U.S. media.
- Stinky Journalism (RSS) - Advocating for more rigorous and scientific journalistic methodology.