ALJAZEERA [MEDIA]
http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
"Al Jazeera claims to be the only politically independent television station in the Middle East...
The channel began broadcasting in late 1996. In April of that year, the BBC World Service's Arabic language TV station, faced with censorship demands by the Saudi Arabian government, had shut down after two years of operation. Many of the former BBC staff members joined Al Jazeera. By 2005, Al Jazeera plans to expand its operations by setting up an English Channel satellite service called Al Jazeera International. Its Asian bureau will be in Kuala Lumpur. Its European bureau will be in London and its American Bureau will be in Washington D.C.."
[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aljazeera]
ANTIWAR.COM [NEWS PORTAL]
"This site is devoted to the cause of non-interventionism and is read by libertarians, pacifists, leftists, "greens," and independents alike, as well as many on the Right who agree with our opposition to imperialism."
[Source: http://antiwar.com/who.php]
BLACK ELECTORATE.COM [NEWS PORTAL]
"In 1999 [Cedric Muhammad] founded Black Electorate Communications in order to advise and apprise the Black electorate, the hip-hop generation, Black and mainstream media, elected officials, religious leaders, educators and the business community on issues that impact the Black and urban vote."
[Source: http://www.blackelectorate.com/bio/bio.asp]
COMMONDREAMS.ORG [NEWS PORTAL]
"Common Dreams is a national non-profit citizens' organization working to bring progressive Americans together to promote progressive visions for America's future. Founded in 1997, we are committed to being on the cutting-edge of using the internet as a political organizing tool - and creating new models for internet activism. "
[Source: http://www.commondreams.org/about.htm]
DEMOCRACY NOW! [MEDIA]
"Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 300 stations in North America.Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, community, and National Public Radio stations, public access cable television stations, satellite television (on Free Speech TV, channel 9415 of the DISH Network), shortwave radio and the internet.
The program is hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez and produced out of the Downtown Community Television Center, a community media center in New York City’s Chinatown (shown to the right)."
[Source: http://www.democracynow.org/about.shtml]
GOOGLE NEWS [SEARCH ENGINE]
A good way to search for the most up to date news on anything from mainstream (as well as a few alternative) media sources is by way of using the Google search engine news function. Simply enter some keywords which you think might appear in the news story, issue, etc., you are looking for and Google will return results from searches of over “4,500 news sources worldwide” (at least at the time of this writing).
INTER PRESS SERVICE (IPS) [MEDIA]
"Inter Press Service (IPS) was set up in 1964 as a non-profit international cooperative of journalists...
The Association - which intends to inherit the goals of the former cooperative of journalists "IPS- Inter Press Service" and to carry forward its ideals - shall be a public-benefit organisation for development cooperation. Its main object shall be to contribute to development by promoting free communication and a professional flow of information to reinforce technical and economic co-operation among developing countries."… its purpose to support the production and dissemination of information on national and international realities with particular regard to the developing countries."
[Source: http://www.ips.org/institutional/history.shtml]
FAIRNESS AND ACCURACY IN REPORTING [MEDIA - WATCHDOG]
“FAIR, the [progressive] national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints.”
[Source: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=100]
WORKINGFORCHANGE [OPINION PORTAL]
http://www.workingforchange.com/
"WorkingForChange is an online journal of progressive news and opinion published by Working Assets. Visit WorkingForChange.com on a daily basis to read the latest dispatches from nationally syndicated reporters and columnists including Molly Ivins, Robert Scheer, and Greg Palast. Visit WorkingForChange or contact us for more information."
[Source: http://www.workingforchange.com/about/index.cfm]
WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE
"The World Socialist Web Site is the Internet center of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). It provides analysis of major world events, comments on political, cultural, historical and philosophical issues, and valuable documents and studies from the heritage of the socialist movement."
[Source: http://www.wsws.org/sections/category/about/about.shtml]
ZNET [NEWS-OPINION PORTAL]
http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm
"ZNet is a huge website updated daily to convey information and provide community. About 300,000 people a week use ZNet's articles, watch areas and sub-sites, translations, archives, links to other progressive sites, daily commentary program, and more. The above link goes to ZNet's top page. Access the rest from there."
[Source: http://www.zmag.org/]