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| Alphabetical | By Popularity (What's This?) | | - Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) (4)
- mediachannel.org
 - Media issues supersite featuring criticism, breaking news, and investigative reporting from organisations worldwide. Also has community boards, issue guides, and action alerts. - Center for Media & Democracy
- Nonprofit, public interest organisation dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry. Serves those seeking to recognise and combat manipulative and misleading PR practices.
- Media Research Center (4)
- Freedom Forum
- News and resource centre devoted to promoting free press, free speech, and free spirit for all people.
- Project Censored
- Exploring and publicizing the extent of censorship in our society by locating stories about significant issues.
- Cursor
- Television, radio and print media criticism.
- Accuracy in Media (AIM)
- Organisation investigating complaints of media misdeeds and working for higher standards of reporting. Includes articles from the AIM Report, a bi-weekly publication.
- Free Press
- A nonprofit organisation working to involve the public in media policymaking and to craft policies for a more democratic media system.
- Institute for Public Accuracy
- Consortium of policy experts providing well-documented bulletins to journalists. IPA helps reporters find subject-specific analysts and builds communication with grassroots activists.
- Daily Howler, The
- Post-Socratic journalism review that applies the simplest rules of thought to the exertions of the modern-day celebrity press corps.
- HonestReporting.com
- Aims to fight media bias and ensure journalists maintain independence and objectivity when reporting on events in the Middle East.
- Media Matters for America
- Nonprofit progressive research and information centre dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
- Regret The Error
- Reports on corrections, retractions, clarifications, and trends regarding accuracy and honesty in North American media.
- Media Watch
- Challenging racism, sexism and violence in the media through education and action.
- News Hounds
- Watching Fox News so you don't have to.
- Spinsanity
- Analyzing the use of spin in American politics and the damage it is doing to our political discourse. Blog format features several columnists and regular updates.
- Times Watch
- Examines the New York Times on a daily basis for examples of liberal bias, as well as factual or funny mistakes.
- Media Access Project
- Public interest law firm which is primarily devoted to representing the public's interest on electronic media issues.
- SourceWatch
- Collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organisations, and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests.
- Pew Center for Civic Journalism
- Works closely with news organisations in developing civic journalism initiatives, evaluating these projects, and training journalists.
- Truth in Media
- Organisation dedicated to ensuring accuracy in media reporting of strategic global geopolitical affairs. Bob Djurdjevic is its founder.
- NewsWatch
- Daily media criticism site designed for news consumers. Offers a digest of media criticism, full-length feature articles, and more.
- Ali Abunimah's Bitter Pill
- Documents efforts to uncover media myths about the Middle East.
- Web Directory: Journalism Ethics
- Resources related to media ethics, ombudsmen, and community journalism.
- NewsBusters
- Aims to expose and combat the alleged liberal media bias in the United States.
- Broadcasting Standards Commission
- Statutory body for standards and fairness in U.K. broadcasting.
- Rocky Mountain Media Watch (RMMW)
- Challenging "the unbalanced and unhealthy diet of information presented by the media corporations."
- Smarter Times
- Daily critique of the New York Times.
- Mediascope
- Raising awareness about violence on TV and other social issues.
- Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA)
- MANNA's mission is to create an environment free of racism through the accurate, balanced, and sensitive Asian American images.
- Media Ecology Association (MEA)
- Dedicated to the study of media environments, the idea that technology and techniques, modes of information and codes of communication play a leading role in human affairs.
- Grade the News
- Rates and reviews print and television news outlets in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- News Watch Project
- Resource for bringing unbiased, fair coverage of minorites, people of colour, and lesbians/gays to the news.
- Journal of Mass Media Ethics
- Devoted to explorations of ethics problems and issues in the various fields of mass communication.
- NewsBreakers
- Nonpartisan media watchdog group who critique the role of television news through parody and non-traditional methods.
- Mediacrity
- A media insider's occasional rants on goofs, bias, and hypocrisy in the media.
- Scottish Media Monitor
- Garry Otton examines the treatment of sexuality in the Scottish media.
- Truth in America Project
- Working for media reform, opposed to the growing corporate centralization of media outlets and the narrowing focus of news coverage.
- Reporting the World
- Series of events, publications, and discussions about issues of representation and responsibility in international news.
- Transparency: Media Criticism
- Uses the ideas of Goffman and others to reveal the way news stories contain hidden forms of social interaction.
- Online NewsHour: Media|Watch
- Reports and analyzes news, trends, issues and controversies involving the information industries.
- MediaFilter
- Media Beat by Norman Solomon
- Weekly syndicated column on media and politics.
- Allodium, The
- Includes under-reported news stories, and research on roots of misinformation propogated by the media.
- Hands Off Public Broadcasting
- Effort to keep public broadcasting independent and free from political pressure, and to identify conservative misinformation that appears in public broadcasting.
- Youth Voice Collaborative
- Media Matters
- Companion site to the PBS series examining reporting ethics, the intersection of business and journalism, the impact of the electronic media on newspapers, and voluntary censorship.
- Pacific Journalism Review
- Critiques and developments in South Pacific news media and communications.
- Irish Media Review
- Independent review of fairness and accuracy in Irish media.
- Media Transparency
- Examines and tracks the money behind conservative media.
- The Media's Ethical Role in Grand Jury Leaks
- Disconnected: Politics, the Press and the Public
- Examines the process driving campaign coverage and the struggle facing politicians and the news media to find new standards.
- NewsWatch Canada
- Undertakes independent research on the diversity and thoroughness of news coverage in Canada's media, with a focus on identifying blindspots and double-standards.
- Brassington, Ken
- Provides the transcript of a lecture on Media Ethics delivered in 1991 at the University of Lancaster.
- Republican Bias in the Media
- Political and cultural commentary detailing conservative perspectives in reporting.
- Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA)
- Media watchdog group which focuses on coverage of Israel.
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