Article 19 - Named after Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 19 combats censorship by promoting freedom of expression and access to official information.
Banned Book and Censorship Resources - An extensive, organized, and in most cases annoted directory of Internet and print resources on various aspects of censorship and free expression.
Beyond Chron - Alternative to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Burma Media Association - An independent organization established by overseas Burmese journalists, reporters and writers who practice and advocate freedom of expression in Burma.
California First Amendment Coalition (CFAC) - Promotes and defends the right to know - your freedom of information (to find out) and freedom of expression (to speak out) about matters of public interest.
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) - Operates a freedom of expression and press freedom information clearing house on behalf of similar groups from around the world who belong to the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX).
Cartoonists Rights Network (CRN) - CRN protects and supports editorial and social cartoonists at risk, educates the public about editorial cartoonist's contributions to the democratic process and to trains cartoonists in free speech and human rights issues including local and international free speech laws and domestic protections.
Censorware Project - What is censorware? The definition is very simple: software which is designed to prevent another person from sending or receiving information (usually on the web). The Censorware Project believes that this type of software is the greatest single threat to free speech as we know it on the internet. It is committed to exposing the flaws of this software and working to encourage alternatives to censorship.
Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) - Committed to preserving the openness and diversity of the Internet in the broadband era, and to realizing the full potential of digital communications through the development and encouragement of noncommercial, public interest programming.
Center for Public Integrity - The mission of the Center for Public Integrity and its iWatch News is to produce original investigative journalism about significant public issues to make institutional power more transparent and accountable.
Chilling Effects - Aims to help you understand the protections that the First Amendment and intellectual property laws give to your online activities. A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and University of Maine law school clinics.
Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) - The CJR is published six times a year by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Also see Resources, CJR's online guide to what major media companies own, magazines and their websites, and study guides.
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) - The CBLDF exists to fight censorship and defend the first amendment rights of comic book professionals throughout the U.S.
ConWebWatch - Keeping an eye on the conservative internet media.
Copley First Amendment Center - Created to aid Illinois Press Foundation (IPA) members in their struggles to maintain their rights to publish freely and gather information without government interference, and to serve as a model for other state newspaper associations nationwide.
Defective by Design - Works to reclaim rights trampled by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and related technology control schemes.
Digital Freedom Network (DFN) - DFN provides technical assistance to activists by developing Net-based campaigns free of charge and creating technology tutorials. It also publishes original news articles about human rights issues as well as articles provided by other organizations.
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - Organization working to protect our fundamental rights regardless of technology; to educate the press, policymakers and the general public about civil liberties issues related to technology; and to act as a defender of those liberties.
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) - A non-profit national organisation representing Internet users concerned with on-line freedoms and rights.
Ellen K. Solender Institute in Free Speech and Mass Media Law - International resource center, providing materials to researchers from courts, legislatures, bureaucracies, the legal profession, legal education, mass media, and telecommunications services. It is conveniently located in mid-America and its focus is on media law and issues affecting the free flow of information with some emphasis on problems caused by the differences in the law of various democracies as well as those experienced with emerging democracies.
European Institute for the Media - A think tank for research and strategy concerning developments in European media and communications, based in Düsseldorf and Paris. The EIM's main areas of research are the impact of convergence on the media, cross-border developments in the media and their role in the process of European integration; the public interest aspects of (new) media developments and the growth of the Information Society.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) - Regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable. The FCC website resources include Public Notices, News Releases, Orders, Notices of Proposed Rulemaking, FactSheets, databases, and audio recordings.
File Room Censorship Archive - The File Room was produced by a small number of artists, art students, and arts administrators working under extreme financial and temporal limitations to collect initial case studies for an interactive database. Rather than being presented as a finished work, is being made publicly available at the point of its initiation. It is an open system that becomes activated, 'filed' and developed through the public process of its own existence.
First Amendment Center - Comprehensive research coverage of key First Amendment issues and topics from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
First Amendment Coalition - A public benefit nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and defending the people's right to know. Focuses on assisting people having difficulty participating in their government.
First Amendment Foundation - Florida organization providing information, expertise, and assistance to the public and news media to ensure that public commitment and progress in the areas of free speech, free press, and open government do not become checked and diluted.
First Amendment Project (FAP) - A nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to protecting and promoting freedom of information, expression, and petition. For nearly ten years, FAP has provided advice, educational materials, and legal representation to its core constituency of activists, journalists, and artists in service of these fundamental liberties. Also see FAP's FOIA Resource Center.
FOIAdvocates - Freedom of information requests, acts, litigation, state and local public records laws. FOIAdvocates can assist you in making requests to obtain government records and provide legal assistance in pursuing administrative appeals and related litigation. A project of Bahr & Stotter Law Offices, P.C.
Free Expression Network Clearinghouse (FEN) - An alliance of organizations dedicated to protecting the First Amendment right of free expression and the values it represents, and to opposing governmental efforts to suppress constitutionally protected speech.
Freemuse - Advocate for free expression in music, opposing censrship from the apparantly benign to the overtly extreme.
Free Press - Founded by author and professor Robert McChesney, Free Press is a national non-profit media reform organization working to reassert anti-trust protections to limit media consolidation; expand and insulate funding for public broadcasting; reduce advertising and marketing to children on television and the internet; create public subsidies and otherwise encourage non-commercial media; secure free airtime for political candidates; develop government incentives aimed at encouraging and protecting minority ownership of broadcast and cable outlets; establish copyright laws that protect the public domain as well as media corporations; and promote newspaper and magazine competition through the use of tax deductions or subsidies.
Free Speech Internet Television - Working with activists and artists, Free Speech TV uses television to cultivate an informed and active citizenry in order to advance progressive social change. FSTV airs primarily social, political, cultural, and environmental documentaries acquired from independent producers, although it is beginning to produce and commission some original content.
Free Speech Movement (FSM) Archives - A spectrum of opinions on FSM, information about Mario Savio, perspectives on what happened, documents of the conflict from all sides.
Freedom Archives - Contains over 5000 hours of audiotapes. These recordings date from the late-60s to the mid-90s and chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international solidarity movements. The collection includes weekly news/poetry/music programs broadcast on several educational radio stations; in-depth interviews and reports on social and cultural issues; diverse activist voices; original and recorded music, poetry, original sound collages; and an extensive La Raza collection.
Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) - Promotes and protects freedom of speech and of the press and the public's right of access to information.
Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC) - Advocates prohibiting prior censorship of on-line communication, requiring that laws restricting the content of on-line speech distinguish between the liability of content providers and the liability of data carriers, Allowing on line users to encrypt their communications and information without restriction. Members of the coalition include the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Human Rights Watch, the Internet Society, Privacy International, the Association des Utilisateurs d'Internet, and other civil liberties and human rights organizations.
Google Watch - A look at how Google's monopoly, algorithms, and privacy policies may be undermining the Web.
Grade the News - Evaluating print and broadcast news media in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Grassroots Cable - A collaboration between media activists from different cities around the U.S., working together to build coordinated campaigns to hold cable companies accountable to the public.
Hoot, The - Watching media in India and on the subcontinent.
Independent Media Institute - Dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism, and to improving the public's access to independent information sources.
Index on Censorship - Bi-monthly magazine for free speech. In addition to the analysis, reportage and interviews, each Index contains a country by country list of free speech violations.
Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) - Serving as a consortium for an abundance of diverse expertise, the Institute makes frequent communication possible between hundreds of independent researchers and journalists across the United States. In the process, the Institute is helping to widen the bounds of media discussion.
Intellectual Freedom Round Table - Provides a forum for the discussion of activities, programs and problems in intellectual freedom of libraries and librarians; serves as a channel of communications on intellectual freedom matters; promotes a greater opportunity for involvement among the members of the ALA in defense of intellectual freedom; promotes a greater feeling of responsibility in the implementation of ALA policies on intellectual freedom.
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 Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) - At its core, IFEX is made up of organizations whose members refuse to turn away when those who have the courage to insist upon their fundamental human right to free expression are censored, brutalized or killed. This site includes IFEX's weekly webzine with the latest news from around the world on freedom of expression victories and violations.
International P.E.N. - Worldwide association of writers existing to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere, regardless of their political or other views, to fight for freedom of expression and to defend writers suffering from oppressive regimes.
International Press Institute (IPI) - Global network of journalists, editors and media executives, dedicated to freedom of the press and improving the standards and practices of journalism.
Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) - An international, independent organization that empowers the public, especially parents, to make informed decisions about electronic media by means of the open and objective labelling of content.
James Madison Center for Free Speech - Founded to protect the First Amendment right of all citizens to free political expression in the U.S. It supports litigation and public education activities to that end.
Jefferson Muzzles, The - Since 1992, the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression has celebrated the birth and ideals of its namesake by calling attention to those who in the past year forgot or disregarded Mr. Jefferson's admonition that freedom of speech "cannot be limited without being lost." Announced on April 13 - the anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson - the Jefferson Muzzles are awarded to draw national attention to abridgments of free speech and press.
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy - A Harvard University research center dedicated to exploring the intersection of press, politics and public policy in theory and practice. The Center has emerged as a major source for research on U.S. campaigns and elections, journalism and public policy, international news, and race, gender and the press.
Liberal Slant - Watching the so-called liberal media.
Local TV News Media Project - Local television news remains the most prominent news source for citizens regarding their communities. With that in mind, the Local TV News Media Project at the University of Delaware has been examining local TV news broadcasts since 1990. As part of the Graduate School of Urban Affairs & Public Policy, the project is concerned with local television news content and its impact on the public's perception of their world.
Media Access Project - Policy advocacy at the FCC and the courts, advocacy in the media and other public forums, and day-to-day counseling of civic organizations and individuals.
Media Coalition - An association that defends the First Amendment right to produce and sell books, magazines, recordings, videotapes and videogames; and defends the American public's First Amendment right to have access to the broadest possible range of opinion and entertainment.
Media Education Foundation - Produces and distributes video documentaries to encourage critical thinking and debate about the relationship between media ownership, commercial media content, and the democratic demand for free flows of information, diverse representations of ideas and people, and informed citizen participation. Also see Materials and Resources.
Media Guide - Extensive links to national and local media.
Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) - A non-governmental organisation with members in 11 of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) countries. MISA focuses primarily on the need to promote free, independent and pluralistic media.
Media Matters for America - Research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
Media Monopoly - From the book by Ben H. Bagdikian, published by Beacon Press, 1997.
Media Tenor, Ltd. - A leading provider of international media content analysis providing a provide a wide range of products and services for academic, corporate and political clients. Media Tenor also publishes both national and international editions of Media Monitor Magazine.
Media Transparency - Investigates conservative foundation support for ideologically-based scholarly, university programs, and think tanks. Provides news, opinion, analysis and investigative data related to links between conservative think-tanks, funding sources and influence in the media.
Media Watch - Media literacy through education and action - challenging racism, sexism and violence in the media.
MediaMatters - Progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
MediaWire - Stories about the media and its practitioners.
National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) - An alliance of 50 national non-profit organizations, including literary, artistic, religious, educational, professional, labor, and civil liberties groups. United by a conviction that freedom of thought, inquiry, and expression must be defended, we work to educate our own members and the public at large about the dangers of censorship and how to oppose them.
National Freedom of Information Coalition (NFOIC) - The National FOI Coalition joins First Amendment and open government organizations from individual states in a self-supporting alliance as they seek to protect the public's right to know through the education of media professionals, attorneys, academics, students and the general public. NFOIC nurtures start-up FOI organizations in other states.
News and Newspapers Online - Hundreds of news resources from around the world that offer free access to current, general-interest, full-text news.
NewsHour: Media Watch - Produced by Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) NewsHour. Reports on and analyzes news, trends, issues and controversies involving the information industries.
Nieman Reports Magazine - Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard produces this quarterly publication to help you stay on top of debates affecting the news industry.
Nieman Watchdog - The premise of watchdog journalism is that the press is a surrogate for the public, asking probing, penetrating questions at every level, from the town council to the state house to the White House, as well as in corporate and professional offices, in union halls, on university campuses and in religious organizations that seek to influence governmental actions. The goal of watchdog journalism is to see that people in power provide information the public should have. The Nieman Watchdog Journalism Project grows from this premise and this goal: to help the press ask penetrating questions, critical questions, questions that matter, questions not yet asked about today's news.
Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR-OAS) - The Commission has addressed issues pertaining to freedom of expression through its system of individual petitions, ruling on cases of censorship, crimes against journalists and other direct or indirect restrictions on freedom of expression. It has spoken out about threats against journalists and restrictions placed on the media in its special reports, such as the Report on Contempt (Desacato) Laws. The Commission has also studied the status of freedom of expression and information through on-site visits and in its general reports.
Peacefire.org - Peacefire is a "people for young people's freedom of speech" organization. Information on Peacefire.org has been used by lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union, People For the American Way, and other anti-censorship groups to challenge Internet censorship laws in Congress and in several state legislatures.
PEN American Center - A fellowship of writers working for more than seventy-five years to advance literature, to promote a culture of reading, and to defend free expression.
PEN International (English PEN) - A membership association with 130 branches over 100 countries, campaigning to promote freedom of expression, extend literacy and promote literature
People for the American Way (PFAW) - Fighting to maintain and expand 50 years of legal and social justice progress that right-wing leaders are trying to dismantle.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette First Amendment Site - What does it mean to have an "open government?" How can you use public records? Why is it important that meetings of public officials remain open to the public? The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, with the help of the Pew Center for Civic Journalism, hopes that these Web pages will help answer those questions.
Project Censored - Publicizes the extent of censorship in our society by locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not.
Reclaim the Media - A coalition of independent journalists, media activists and community organizers in the Pacific Northwest, promoting press freedom and community media access as prerequisites for a functioning democracy.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP) - A major national and international resource in free speech issues, disseminating information in many forms, including a quarterly legal review, a bi-weekly newsletter, a 24-hour hotline, and various handbooks on media law issues.
Retraction Watch -
Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process.
smartertimes.com - Dedicated to the proposition that New York's dominant daily has grown complacent, slow and inaccurate. Edited by Ira Stoll at Brooklyn, N.Y., who attacks the Times from the right.
Student Press Law Center (SPLC) - Legal assistance agency devoted exclusively to educating high school and college journalists about the rights and responsibilities embodied in the First Amendment and supporting the student news media in their struggle to cover important issues free from censorship.
Telecommunications Act of 1996 [.pdf] - The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is the first major overhaul of telecommunications law in over 60 years. The goal of this new law is to let anyone enter any communications business - to let any communications business compete in any market against any other. Also see the FCC's 1996 Telecommunications Act page.
Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression - Devoted to the defense of free expression in all its forms. While its charge is sharply focused, the Center's mission is broad. It is as concerned with the musician as with the mass media, with the painter as with the publisher, and as much with the sculptor as the editor.
World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC) - A watchdog for free news media at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations, OSCE, Council of Europe, European Union, and at human rights and other international meetings considering free-press issues.
World Press Freedom Day (UN) - By decision 48/432 of 20 December 1993, the UN General Assembly proclaimed 3 May as World Press Freedom Day. Since then, it has been celebrated each year on 3 May, the anniversary of the Declaration of Windhoek. The document calls for free, independent, pluralistic media worldwide characterizing free press as essential to democracy and a fundamental human right.
World Press Freedom Day (at WAN) - World Press Freedom Day exists to recognise the sacrifices made in the struggle for freedom of the press and to put pressure on governments that continue to deny their citizens this basic human right. The 3 May message is that journalists everywhere must be granted the right to report freely and without fear.
Writers in Prison Committee - Works on behalf of persecuted writers worldwide. Established in 1960 in response to increasing attempts to silence voices of dissent by imprisoning writers, the Writers in Prison Committee currently monitors the cases of almost 900 writers annually, including writers imprisoned, tortured, threatened, attacked, disappeared and killed for the peaceful practice of their profession, and lobbies on their behalf.
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