The best alternative news:
World:
Corpwatch:
- CorpWatch best for corporate criticism
- Corpwatch. - issues
- CorporateWatch UK
Other
business monitors:
- Global Witness Nobel Peace Prize-nominated group has in depth dossiers on everything from corruption in oil business to blood diamonds. You can download files or hunt through their press releases
- The Corporate Library Extensive site devoted to international corporate governance. Free services include news briefs. You can also do excellent company research on not just biographies of CEOs & board members, but also their salary, perks & sometimes even a copy of their contracts.
- See also JNet's Business Criticism
Global
News:
- InterPressService
- UN Wire
- ReliefWeb Consolidated web site of international humanitarian community
- Alternet Alternate News Wire service, including Story leads
OneWorld:
Others:
- EcoNet Environment news & links
- Red Cross Alertnet
- Alternative Press Center Over 350 resources
- Comminit.com Excellent resource page for info, ideas, linkages & dialogue on communication, development & change.
- Lycos List of Alternative Media
- Globalinfo News from Africa, Asia, Latin America & other developing regions prepared by journalists from those regions on a wide range of topics including the environment, trade, conflict, industry, human rights, gender, arts & culture. Free for two weeks, then for a modest price.
- LaborStart A well-organized site for the latest in labour & trade union news. While aimed at labor activists, it's a handy tool for journalists. You can search for news by country & there are extensive archives.
US:
- FAIR
- TomDispatch.com daily weblog by author Tom Engelhardt
- Boulevard Links to many US print alternatives
- Inequality.org Delightful treasure chest of startling info on income inequalities. Includes a news section , a list of experts & a quote gallery ("To turn $100 in $110 is work. To turn $100 million into $110 million is inevitable" from Edgar Bronfman). Produced by a network of journalists & founded by James Lardner, a writer for US News & World Report.
- Third world traveler Alternative view of US politics, media, trade issues.
UK:
- UK librarians - BUBL UK academic site with wide selection by topic or country
- Behind the headlines A UK academic site that provides good resources & web pages for top stories in news. Operated by Resource Discovery Network, The RDN's 30,000 resources are selected, catalogued & described by subject & information professionals drawn from over 60 UK education institutions.
AdminNet:
Canada/Quebec:
Autres:
Here
are some of the websites that FAIR visits most often to keep up with the news.
Please note that we don't necessarily endorse the way these sites covers the
issues; some of them are worth visiting for their critical perspectives, others
simply because the media outlets are particularly influential. Happy browsing!
Alternative News
- AlterNet. Syndicated writings from the alternative press.
- The American Prospect. Liberal political magazine; has a good blog.
- Common Dreams. Breaking news and links to highlights from the day's progressive press.
- CounterPunch. bi-weekly muckraking newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair.
- Democracy Now!. web version of daily radio show.
- Free Speech TV. Towards more democratic tv; site features downloadable independent video.
- Eschaton. Popular blog is perhaps best round-up of progressive blogosphere, with much media criticism.
- In These Times. nonprofit political magazine featuring news & analysis that challenge corporate media.
- Indymedia.org: Independent media organizations & journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage.
- Jay's Leftist and ''Progressive'' Internet Resources Directory. A very, very large progressive links collection.
- Left Business Observer. Monthly newsletter on economics & politics edited by Doug Henwood.
- The Nation. America's oldest weekly news magazine, featuring political news & commentary.
- OneWorld Online. Global news with a focus on developing world.
- The Progressive. Political magazine with commentary & news advocating for peace & social justice.
- Sam Smith's Progressive Review. "Washington's Most Unofficial Source."
- WorkingForChange. Left-oriented phone company Working Assets has a remarkably good roster of columnists.
- World Socialist Web Site. News from a Marxist perspective; frequent media criticism.
- ZNet. Z Magazine's site for progressive news & organizing.
- Agence France-Presse. French news service.
- BBC World News.
- The Independent. U.K.-based newspaper.
- Le Monde Diplomatique in English. A French monthly news magazine focusing on global politics
- Los Angeles Times
- New York Times. Registration required.
- Reuters. British-based news service.
- Salon Magazine
- Slate
Magazine. Washington Post's online magazine.
Includes Today's Papers, review of national newspapers' front pages. - Washington Post
- World Press Review, monthly magazine offering analyses & English-language translations of international press.
- Media Views. FAIR's links to recent media criticism of note on Web.
- Abyz News Links. An enormous database of national & local U.S. news publications.
- Adbusters. Examines and parodies advertising culture.
- Center for Investigative Reporting.
- Cursor. Daily round-up of under-covered news & media criticism.
- The Daily Howler. An often insightful Web-based column on media inaccuracy & arrogance.
- Freedom Forum.
- Index on Censorship. Promotes free expression around world.
- Institute for Public Accuracy. Seeks to broaden public discourse by gaining media access for those whose perspectives are commonly drowned out.
- Jim Romenesko's MediaNews. Up-to-date media news & gossip. With links to media writers.
- JournalismNet. Online resources for investigative journalists--search tools & much more.
- Media Bistro. Journalists' site features a daily round-up of media news.
- Media Channel. media criticism site critical of corporate ownership, with links to articles on media from around world.
- Project Censored. Identifies & promotes most undercovered stories of the year.
- This Modern World. weekly cartoon of social & political satire
- TomPaine.com. Aims to encourage debate on issues like media, environment & campaign finance reform.
- Vanderbilt University's TV News Archive. best free resource for studying TV news.
- world-newspapers.com Exhaustive links to international newspapers online.
- A
- Alternative Media Listing
- Alternative Media - News Watch
- Alternative Press Review
- American Free Press
- Antiwar.com
- Axis of Logic
- B
- Bangladesh & Muslim World - Iraq Iran Afghanistan Palestine
- Black Commentator
- Bobby's News Links
- Breaking All The Rules
- C
- Center for Cooperative Research
- Centre for Research on Globalization
- Citizens for a Legitimate Government
- COA News - Independent News Portal
- Conscious Media Network
- Consortium News
- Cost of War
- CounterBias
- Counter Punch
- Coup 2k (Lumpen)
- Cursor
- D
- Democratic Underground
- Disinfopedia
- Dissident Voice
- Drudge Report
- E
- Electronic Intifada
- The Emperor's New Clothes
- Empire Notes
- Enemy of the State
- F
- Freedom Forum Newseu
- From the Wilderness
- G
- Guerilla News Network
- H
- I
- Idaho Observer
- Independent Media Center
- Information Clearing House
- Information Guerilla
- InformationLiberation
- Information Times
- Informed Comment
- Iraq Body Count
- Iraq War: Mirror World
- Is Bush Wired?
- J
- Jack Blood
- Jihad Unspun
- Juan Cole
- Just World News
- K
- Kate/A/blog
- Kurt Nimmo
- L
- Left End of the Dial
- LessWaiting.com News
- Lew Rockwell
- The Liberian Post
- Liberty Forum
- Libyan Press
- Link Crusader
- LUMPEN
- M
- Mathaba.Net
- MediaLens
- Mickey Z.
- Minitrue
- N
- The Nation
- New Dawn Magazine
- New Netizen - Government news & Conspiracys/Cover-ups
- New Malaysia
- News Alternative
- News Insider
- NewsMax.com - America's News Page
- New Standard
- News via tao.ca
- Nitro News
- O
- Occupation Watch
- Online Journal
- Orb Standard
- Orcinus
- Original Sources
- Oromia Online
- Orwell Today
- P
- Papa Guru - Alternative News Sites
- Paper Tiger TV
- Papua Mouthpiece Online (OPM West Papua)
- ParaPolitics
- Patriot Daily
- Peace Palestine
- The Peoples Voice
- Power Skeptic
- Press Action
- Prison Planet
- Progressive
- Progressive News
- Project for the OLD American Century
- Propaganda Matrix
- Q
- R
- Raed in the Middle
- Rational Enquirer
- Raw Story
- Red Kalki (en Castellano)
- Remarkz
- Rense
- Rigorous Intuition
- RINF
- Robert Fisk
- The Rumor Mill News Agency
- S
- Schema-root
- Screamer in the Matrix
- Selves & Others
- Serendipity
- Signs of the Times
- Smirking Chimp
- Strategic Intelligence
- StratFor Intelligence
- Suara Pembaruan Online (Indonesian)
- Swans
- T
- The Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research
- Third World Traveler
- ThomasMc
- Today in Iraq
- Today's Alternative News
- TomDispatch
- Trinicenter
- Truth in Media
- Truth Seeker
- Truthout
- U
- Underground Press
- UnderReported
- Unjust Media
- Unknown News
- Uruknet
- V
- Village Voice
- W
- War Without End
- The War Room
- WhatDoesItMean.Com
- What Really Happened
- White House
- Why War?
- WINDS - World Internet News Distributory Source
- WorldNetDaily - A Free Press for a Free People
- World Socialist Web Site
- X
- Xymphora
- Y
- Yugoslavia Bulletin from España Roja
- Z
- Zmag
- ZNet
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