1. Alternative media
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   Media (newspapers, radio, television, movies, Internet, etc.) which are alternatives to the business or government-owned mass media.
2. And Then They Came For Me
   Final Words from Lasantha Wickrematunge
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2009
   An editorial by Lasantha Wickrematunge shortly before he was murdered on January 8, 2009, and published three days after his death.
3. Canwest latest 'media giant' to exploit news operations
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2009
   Media corporations claim to care about quality journalism, but they've deceived Canadians for decades -- censoring news to protect their profits, pandering to the interests of the corporate world, and neglecting to invest adequately in their news operations. For decades powerful media corporations have decided what news Canadians should read, hear, and see. By reading just about any Canadian daily newspaper it's not hard to see how the values of corporate-owned media are quite different from the values and interests of the majority of Canadians.
4. Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News - And Why
   The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1996
   Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
5. Connexions Digest
   Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1989
   
6. Connexions Digest
   Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1990
   
7. Connexions Digest
   Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1992
   
8. Connexions Selected Links & Resources: Media Links: Periodicals & Broadcast Media Online
   Resource Type: Website
   A selection of progressive media websites.
9. Could a 'mini-paper' nip at the heels of mainstream press?
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2010
   A mini-paper would be incredibly inexpensive to publish. There would be no requirement for newsprint, a huge printing plant or large delivery system.
10. The Dangerous Cult of the Guardian
    A Thought Police for the Internet Age
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The Guardian includes some fine reporting and occasionally insightful commentary. Possibly because it is farther from the heart of empire, it is able to provide a partial antidote to the craven coverage of the corporate-owned media in the US. Nonetheless, it would be unwise to believe that the Guardian is therefore a free market in progressive or dissident ideas on the left. In fact, quite the contrary: the paper strictly polices what can be said and who can say it in its pages, for cynical reasons we shall come to.
11. The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Journalism is collapsing, and with it comes the most serious threat in our lifetimes to self-government and the rule of law as it has been understood here in the United States.
12. Don't Forget to Write
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    Writing letters to the editor is an effective way of getting publicity for your point of view.
13. Double Fold
    Libraries and the Assault on Paper
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Double Fold examines the preservation of books in United States libraries over the past 50 years. It details the libraries' "war" on books -- the alarming lack of preservation and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of irreplacable bound originals including 19th-century illustrated dailies. He chronicles the attempts to find ways of preserving books from both the ravages of time and the librairies' lack of shelf space. He also explains how librairies use the spectre of disintegrating books as part of their fundraising stategy. Baker offers aternative solutions to these problems. His ultimate and pesuasive plea is for librairies to stop "executing" the originals.
14. From Politics to Profit
    The Commercialization of Canadian Daily Newspapers, 1890-1920
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Analyzes the transformation of Canadian newspapers that occurred between 1890 and 1920 when daily newspapers slowly changed from political mouthpieces to a marketable industry.
15. From the Ashes of Dying Newspapers Will Come Authentic News
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Every time a daily newspaper of the obsolete model lays off another round of reporters, more of them come to us to study and learn the craft anew from this very different and opposite angle: from below, as opposed to the top down model that encrusted around them and doomed the previous version of their careers. Truth is, there is a direct correlation between the space in the media sphere that gets freed up every time a daily newspaper loses circ or dies and the increased reach that we and others have as we replace them with a better more people-powered model. So don't mourn the American daily newspaper. Anything you liked about it will continue but from a different set of new media. The time will come when one or more of those publications, or a new one yet to come in the US, will turn to the models that work for the daily Por Esto! or El Libertador or others South of the border, kissing their slavish dependence on advertisers goodbye and throwing their lot in, instead, with the larger multitudes of society.
16. Hanging On: Native media are surviving
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    Native media are struggling to survice.
17. Here's why papers don't deserve support; money should go to committed Internet sites
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Governement funding should not go toward propping up mainstream print media, but rather towards access to information in communities where it is currently lacking.
18. Hitler's Propaganda Machine
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    
19. Islamic Peril
    Media And Global Violence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    
20. Loaves and Fishes
    The Inspiring Story of the Catholic Worker Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    
21. Manufacturing Consent 
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
22. Media Names & Numbers
    Your Connection to the Media
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2000   Published: 2009
    A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats. An annual subscription includes a print directory and access to the continuously updated online version.
    
23. MediaSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring resources about media and the media industry, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
24. The Missing News 
    Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news is printed or aired, which letters will be published, or who will be accorded credibility?
25. Le Monde Diplomatique - English edition
    Resource Type: Website
    English-language edition of the French newspaper. Some articles free on the Web site; full access requires a subscription.
26. News Media Stifle Ideas and Debate
    Review of Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    Far from providing democracy's oxygen, as they claim, the news media today legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informed, they manufacture public consent for policies which favour their owners: the corporate elite.
27. Newspapers and the Workers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1916
    The worker must resolutely reject any solidarity with a bourgeois newspaper. And he must always, always, always remember that the bourgeois newspaper (whatever its hue) is an instrument of struggle motivated by ideas and interests that are contrary to his.
    
28. No longer a real newspaper, new Globe betrays Canadians
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The new tarted-up, glossy, colour Globe and Mail is many things, but it is not a real “news paper.”
29. Organising Things
    A Guide to Successful Political Action
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    A comprehensive guide to practical political action, packed with information and handy checklists.
30. The Organizer's Manual
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    Practical suggestions for small-group and grassroots organizing, political self-e4ducation, mass education and communications, alternate community services, mass actions, legal and medical self-defense. Strategies for organizing high schools, universities, racial groups, women, the military, labor, the professions.
31. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 30, 2016
    Conflict of interest
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    This issue of Other Voices shines a light on the murky world of conflict of interest, the hidden reality that often underlies appearances of neutrality, objectivity, and due process. Conflicts of interest are inherent in capitalism, a system founded on the premise that the state and society should be subordinated to economic self-interest and the accumulation of private wealth. Scientists who are supposed to be studying the effects of GMOs are funded by agribusiness corporations. Doctors who receive money from pharmaceutical companies write articles promoting the drugs produced by those companies. Decisions about pipelines are made by regulators who have spent years working in the oil industry, and who will be heading back to jobs in the industry after their stint 'regulating' it. Politicians receive campaign funds from corporate lobbyists.
32. Problems of Everyday Life
    And Other Writings On Culture & Science
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    The focus of this book is the impact of the Russian Revolution of the culture life of the country -- and conversely, the effect of the country's cultural backwardness on the course of the revolution. Among the topics discussed are religion, communications media, language, education, science, industry, cinema, marriage, the position of women, child care, "proletarian" literature, art, philoosphy, primitive rural conditions, the dangers of overspecialization and bureaucracy.
33. Propaganda and Consciousness: The Future of Big Flame Newspaper
    Resource Type: Article
    A political dicussion of the strategy and practice of Big Flame, written in the early 1970s.
    
34. Radical Newspapers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
35. Red Menace #4
    Volume 3, Number 1 - Winter 1979
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
36. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
    Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
37. Spinwars
    Politics and New Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
38. The Straight Goods
    Canadians Informing Canadians
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1999
    Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    A daily Internet news and feature publication featuring investigative reports, columns, and a variety of features. Ceased publication 2013.
39. Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press - October 1977
    Volume V Number 8
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
40. Tabloids do not represent the working class
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    It should come as little surprise that media owned and run by unscrupulous billionaires like Rupert Murdoch and Richard Desmond should be more concerned with protecting the party of big business than it is with the wellbeing or interests of working class people. We need to call out the tabloid media for what it is – run by and for the elites.
41. Uncovering the Sixties
    Life and Times of the Undergound Press
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
42. Underground Times
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    The story of Canadian 'underground' newspapers of the 1960s.
43. The Yellow Journal
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
    An independent non-profit newspaper for the people of Metropolitan Toronto funded by the Opportunities for Youth Program in 1974.
44. Yesterday's News
    Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.

Experts on Zeitungen in the Sources Directory

1. The British Library
2. Deutsches Historisches Museum
3. Media Names & Numbers
4. National Print Museum
5. Barrie Zwicker