Alliance for Community Media - Committed to assuring everyone's access to electronic media. The Alliance advances this goal through public education, a progressive legislative and regulatory agenda, coalition building and grassroots organizing.
Asiana Press Agency - Provides an independent perspective on the news and events affecting Asia, featuring a number of excellent writers, filmmakers and photographers who are available for varied assignments.
California Chicano News Media Association - Promotes diversity in the news media by providing encouragement, scholarships and educational programs for Latinos pursuing careers in the news media, and to foster an accurate and fair portrayal of Latinos in the news media, and promoting the social, economic and professional advancement of Latino journalists.
Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR)
- Founded in 1974, the oldest nonprofit investigative news organization in the U.S., producing multimedia reporting relevant to people's lives. Its innovative model relies on in-depth collaboration with other news organizations, journalists, public policy organizations and universities, and fully exploits new storytelling technologies, to provide citizens—local and global—with critical, actionable information.
Creative Commons - A nonprofit organization that develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.
Dow Jones News Fund (DJNF) - A national foundation supported by Dow Jones & Co., Inc., Dow Jones Foundation and others within the news industry. Its emphasis is on education for students and educators as part of our mission to promote careers in journalism.
Electronic Privacy Information Center - A public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values.
European Newspaper Publishers Association (ENPA) - An international non-profit association, advocating the interests of the European newspaper publishing industry at different European and international organisations and institutions.
Free Press.net - A national nonpartisan organization working to increase informed public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies that will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system with a strong nonprofit and noncommercial sector.
Freedom Forum - A nonpartisan foundation that champions the First Amendment as a cornerstone of democracy. The Freedom Forum is the main funder of the operations of the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
Frontline Club - London hub for a diverse group of people united by their passion for the best quality journalism. It is home to over 200 talks and screenings a year.
High School Journalism (HSJ) Eeffort to grow a diverse generation of fledgling journalists and impart a deeper appreciation of the First Amendment and news literacy among all teens.
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) - Promotes co-ordinated international action to defend press freedom and social justice through the development of strong, free and independent trade unions of journalists.
International Network of Street Papers (INSP) - INSP supports street press projects worldwide to create employment and training opportunities for people experiencing poverty and homelessness. The network connects over 100 street publications in some 40 countries and supports new projects in the developing world. Learn more about its street press titles.
International Press Institute (IPI) - Global network of journalists, editors and media executives, dedicated to freedom of the press and improving the standards and practises of journalism.
International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) - A consortium of the world's major news agencies, news publishers and news industry vendors. It develops and maintains technical standards for improved news exchange that are used by virtually every major news organization in the world.
Investigative News Network (INN) - Advancing excellence in non-profit journalism.
A consortium of high quality, award-winning watchdog journalistic organizations serving the public interest to benefit our free society.
Knight Digital Media Center -
Provides competitive fellowships to traditional journalists from print and broadcast media who seek multimedia skill training and want to make the transition to New Media journalism. The goal is to provide the foundation of technical skills and story-telling techniques required by New Media platforms. This training is done at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Also see excellent page of New Media Resources compiled for Professional Training and Development, Online Journalism, General Professional Organizations, Beat/Specialization Organizations, Ethnic/Gender/Sexual Orientation Organizations, Regional Organizations, and Professional Publications.
Knight Foundation - Supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts.
Maynard Institute for Journalism Education (MIJE) -
The institute has a history of training and placing more nonwhite journalists than any other single institution in the country.
Since 1985, the institute's Management Training Center (MTC) at Northwestern University, the nation's first program to train news and business professionals side-by-side, has resulted in career advancement for more than 200 newspaper managers, most of them people of color.
Narrative 360 - Advancing the role of the documentary arts in civil society and supporting their development in the areas of photography, audio and literary journalism.
National Press Club (NPC) - A private club for journalists and communications professionals, has been a Washington institution for more than a century. It is also a world-class conference and meeting facility that hosts thousands of events each year for sophisticated clients from around the globe. Also see NPC's News and Multimedia.
New America Media (NAM) - Enhances the scope of ethnic media and connects otherwise fragmented markets to one another. NAM facilitates social gatherings, news briefings, workshops, and its flagship Awards, dubbed "The Ethnic Pulitzers." As a trade association, NAM strengthens the editorial and business capacities of its media members.
Newspaper Guild, The -
Founded as a print journalists' union, the Guild today is primarily a media union with more than 34,000 members in the United States, Canada and in Puerto Rico: journalists, sales and media workers of all kinds, on-line writers and designers, reporters, editorial assistants, photographers, editors, paginators, editorial artists, correspondents, typographers, advertising sales people, marketing, information systems specialists, commercial artists, technicians, accountants, business, customer service reps, drivers, maintenance, mail room, pressroom, telephone operators, circulation and distribution staff.
Nieman Foundation for Journalism - Established in 1938, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard administers the oldest midcareer fellowship program for journalists in the world. More than 1,300 journalists of accomplishment from 88 countries have received Nieman Fellowships and benefited from a year of study and exploration at Harvard University.
The Nieman Foundation also publishes the quarterly magazine Nieman Reports, the nation’s oldest magazine devoted to a critical examination of the practice of journalism. Additionally, the foundation is home to the Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism and the Nieman Watchdog Journalism Project, which encourages reporters and editors to monitor and hold accountable those who exert power in all aspects of public life. Also see:
Online Media Legal Network (OMLN) - A network of law firms, law school clinics, in-house counsel, and individual lawyers throughout the United States willing to provide pro bono (free) and reduced fee legal assistance to qualifying online journalism ventures and other digital media creators.
Overseas Press Club of America (OPC) - Founded in 1939 in New York City by a group of foreign correspondents, seeks to maintain an international association of journalists working in the United States and abroad; to encourage the highest standards of professional integrity and skill in the reporting of news; to help educate a new generation of journalists; to contribute to the freedom and independence of journalists and the press throughout the world, and to work toward better communication and understanding among people.
Pacific Media Workers Guild - Local 39521 of The Newspaper Guild, a sector of the Communications Workers of America, one of the nation's largest affiliates of the AFL-CIO, the "union for the Information Age."
Located in downtown San Fancisco. Represents more than 2,200 newspaper and communications workers across the San Francisco Bay Area, Monterey and the Central Valley, as well as court interpreters in its statewide California Federation of Interpreters unit.
Park Center for Independent Media - A national center for the study of media outlets that create and distribute content outside traditional corporate systems and news organizations.
Press Complaints Commission (PCC) -
Independent UK body which administers system of self-regulation for the press. It does so primarily by dealing with complaints, framed within the terms of the Editors' Code of Practice, about the editorial content of newspapers and magazines (and their websites, including editorial audio-visual material) and the conduct of journalists. It can also assist individuals by representing their interests to editors in advance of an article about them being published.
Project Syndicate - World's pre-eminent source of original op-ed commentaries. Project Syndicate provides the world’s foremost newspapers with exclusive commentaries by prominent leaders and opinion makers. A unique collaboration of distinguished opinion makers from every corner of the globe, Project Syndicate provides incisive perspectives on our changing world by those who are shaping its politics, economics, science, and culture.
Prometheus Radio Project - Serves as a microradio resource center offering legal, technical, and organizational support for the non-commercial community broadcasters.
Sacramento Press Club (SPC) - A non-profit educational organization dedicated to helping the next generation of journalists through scholarships to journalism students in California.
Additionally, the Sacramento Press Club is committed to informing and educating its members and the public through monthly luncheons featuring newsmakers from throughout the nation.
Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) - Seeks to advance public understanding of environmental issues by improving the quality, accuracy, and visibility of environmental reporting.
Society for Newspaper Design (SND) - An international organization for news media professionals and visual communicators – specifically those who create print/web/mobile publications and products. Members art direct, design, edit, report, illustrate, make photos and video, visualize data – and write code.
Students for Free Culture - An international chapter-based student organization that promotes the public interest in intellectual property and information & communications technology policy.
World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) - Global organisation of the world’s press, representing more than 18,000 publications, 15,000 online sites and over 3,000 companies in more than 120 countries. The organisation was created by the July 2009 merger of the World Association of Newspapers and IFRA, the research and service organisation for the news publishing industry.
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