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Media Watchdog groups are organizations whose mission is to monitor the producers of mainstream news, advertising, and entertainment and to monitor policymaking in the media arena.

Subcategories

• Media Bias and Balance
• Media Commentators
• Media Literacy
• U.S. Politics Fact Checking

Resources in This Category

• Accuracy in Media

  http://www.aim.org/
  Conservative watchdog group for fairness, balance and accuracy in news reporting.

• Adbusters

  http://www.adbusters.org/
  Foundation with goal of changing the way society and the mass media interact.

• Center for Media and Democracy

  http://www.prwatch.org/
  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.

• Columbia Journalism Review

  http://www.cjr.org/
  Publication serving as a watchdog of the press in all its forms.

• ConWebWatch

  http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/
  From Terry Krepel, a watchdog of conservative Internet news sources. About the site, criticism, reader letters, archives, links and books for sale.

• FactCheck.org - Annenberg Political Fact Check

  http://www.factcheck.org/
  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.

• Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)

  http://www.fair.org/
  National progressive media watchdog group advocating independence and criticism in journalism, and challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.

• Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity

  http://franklincenterhq.org/
  Identifies, trains and supports journalists working to detect and expose government corruption and incompetence, supporting transparency, accountability and fiscal responsibility.

• Global Media Monitoring Project

  http://www.whomakesthenews.org/
  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.

• iMediaEthics

  http://www.imediaethics.org/
  Publishes news and investigative reports of factual errors and ethical breaches by media outlets. The Art Science Research Laboratory encourages the media’s use of scientific methods and experts before publication.

• Media Matters for America

  http://mediamatters.org/
  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.

• Media Monitors Network

  http://www.mediamonitors.net/
  Grass roots watchdog of media coverage which seeks to uncover journalistic and media bias and provide contrary information and opinions.

• Media Watch

  http://www.mediawatch.com/
  Organization focusing on media literacy and the challenging of stereotypes commonly found in the media.

• Media Watch (ABC TV)

  http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/
  A leading forum for Australian media analysis. Summary, news, bungled stories and viewable episodes of the weekly program, plus archive of previous coverage.

• MediaChannel.org

  http://www.mediachannel.org/
  Nonprofit site dedicated to the political, social, and cultural impacts of the media.

• News Hounds

  http://www.newshounds.us/
  Volunteer watchdog group focused on FOX News. Includes blog, video, newsletter, forum and how to support.

• NPR - On the Media

  http://www.wnyc.org/shows/otm/
  Official site of the weekly one-hour National Public Radio program devoted to media criticism and analysis.

• Press Complaints Commission

  http://www.pcc.org.uk/
  Independent organisation monitoring British newspapers and magazines to ensure they adhere to ethical guidelines. Deals with issues such as inaccuracy, privacy, misrepresentation and harassment.

• Project Censored

  http://projectcensored.org/
  Locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for one reason or another.

• Stats

  http://www.stats.org/
  Weblog and articles highlight abuses of science and statistics regarding policy issues.

• Tyndall Report

  http://www.tyndallreport.com/
  Monitoring the American television networks' weekday nightly newscasts.

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