TSUD425 - Social Justice and Urban Sustainability -- Yerena: Nonprofit & Independent News

Monthly newsletter with original articles on foreign and domestic policy, politics, and media.

News magazine and online community that creates original journalism and amplifies the best of hundreds of other independent media sources.

Weekly syndicated half-hour news magazine featuring progressive perspectives on national and international political, economic, and social issues.

A national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.

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.

A nonprofit that specializes in investigative, political, and social justice reporting, 'Mother Jones' produces both a bimonthly national print magazine and a website with original reporting 24/7. (UW Tacoma Library Periodicals: AP2 .M69193)

Brings a critical voice to social and political issues through its online journalism and print monthly magazine. (UW Tacoma Library Periodicals: AP2 .N2)

News, information and guides to independent bookstores, independent publishers, literary magazines, alternative periodicals, independent record labels, alternative newsweeklies and more.

Independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

A monthly left-wing magazine of investigative reporting, political commentary, cultural coverage, activism, interviews, poetry, and humor.

Non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to and increasing public awareness of the alternative press. Founded in 1969, it remains one of the oldest self-sustaining alternative media institutions in the United States.

Monthly print journal and daily Web magazine providing a forum for constructive debate and civil argument about ideas across a wide range of the center-left political spectrum.

The 'Utne Reader' and Utne.com are digests of forward-thinking independent ideas and alternative culture. Topics cover a wide range, from the environment to the economy, politics to pop culture. (UW Tacoma Library Periodicals: AP2 .U87)

Drawing upon publications around the globe, and a network of correspondents in dozens of countries, Worldpress.org illuminates the issues that barely see the light of day in the mainstream press, translating, reprinting, analyzing, and contextualizing the best of the international press from more than 20 languages.

A weekly one-hour progressive public affairs program providing information, analyses, and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media.

Combining lively discussion and a thoughtful media critique, 'CounterSpin' provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage.

Daily TV/radio news program providing access to people and perspectives rarely heard in the U.S.corporate-sponsored media, including independent and international journalists, ordinary people from around the world who are directly affected by U.S. foreign policy, grassroots leaders and peace activists, artists, academics, and independent analysts.

Explores how the media 'sausage' is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad.

Listener-supported community radio network of commercial-free stations that server their local communities and beyond, providing a range of educational programming.

Aims to offer a fresh, global voice on culture and contemporary American life and art. A distinctive content source for information, insights and cultural experiences essential to living in our diverse, interconnected world.

A nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization working to ensure that the media meet their obligations by promoting diversity, accessibility, and accountability among media corporations and government regulators.

Launched in late 2002 by media scholar Robert W. McChesney and Josh Silver, Free Press is the largest media reform organization in the United States. It provides resources and policy updates related to media ownership, public media, the future of the Internet, quality journalism, civil rights and media justice, and building the media reform movement.

Examines how the media cover specific stories and broader coverage trends. AJR analyzes ethical dilemmas in the field and monitors the impact of technology on how journalism is practiced and on the final product.

Non-profit investigative research and journalism to expose corporate malfeasance and to advocate for multinational corporate accountability and transparency. CorpWatch works to foster global justice, independent media activism, and democratic control over corporations.

A national media watch group that offers well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship. Advocates for greater diversity in the press and scrutinizes media practices that marginalize public interest and minority and dissenting viewpoints.

A consumer watchdog group that focuses on: investigating and countering P.R. campaigns and spin by corporations, industries, and government agencies; reporting that promotes informed decision-making about products and policies; advancing transparency and media literacy; and promoting "open content" media that enable people from all walks of life to "be the media."