1. Advocacy Journalism
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   A genre of journalism that intentionally and transparently adopts a non-objective viewpoint, usually for some social or political purpose.
2. After the Cataclysm
   Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Rights)
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1979
   A carefully dcoumented asessment of Western reporting on post-1975 Indochina.
3. Altered Genes, Twisted Truth 
   How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2015
   Drucker elucidates the scientific facts about genetically engineered foods that the PR myths have been obscuring.
4. An alternative media list
   Getting the news - and getting behind the news
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014   Published: 2017
   A selective list of English-language alternative media.
5. Alternative Press Center
   Resource Type: Organization
   Annotated links to alternative points of view available on the Internet.
6. American Power and the New Mandarins 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1969
   Chomsky writes about American power and violence, especially in the context of the Vietnam war, and he focuses especially on the complicity of American intellectuals in supporting and enabling the American imperial project.
7. Beautiful Trouble - Pocket Edition
   A Toolbox for Revolution
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2014
   Ideas for organizers.
8. Blindspots in The News
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1995
   The filters that determine what gets into the "news" and what doesn't.
9. Calling All Radicals 
   How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   Thompson argues that we can reclaim our democracy through grassroots organizing.
10. 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.
11. The Censorious Vortex of the "Flash News" Barons
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    For decades, the factors that decided what noteworthy stories would not find their way into print or on the air came down to the media's ignorance, laziness or from advertising restraints. For too long, the explosive material for good journalism in these and other areas had remained hidden in plain sight.
12. CNSP Review 1974-75; Canada in an International Context
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    An analysis of developments in Canadian society based on newspaper coverage.
13. Confessions of a Media Critic
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1984
    Barrie Zwicker says that with the planet in crisis it isn't time for 'business as usual', least of all in journalism.
14. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
15. Control Room
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2004
    Shows the coverage of the 2003 Iraqi war from the perspective of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet.
16. The Cover-Ups That Exploded
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    
17. Double Standards
    Resource Type: Website
    Focusing on double standards in the media and in international politics. "Double Standard 1. a rule or principle applied more strictly to some people more than others (or oneself)."
18. Effective Media Relations
    Nurturing your relationships with reporters
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    Our relationships with journalists need to be maintained over time in order to be fruitful.
19. Effective Media Relations
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Media relations is human relations. Journalism is about telling compelling stories about people and their lives.
20. Fame & Fortune Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Comprehensive listing of awards available to Canadian journalists.
21. Fear of Falling
    The Inner Life of the Middle Class
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1990
    Examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades. Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambition and anxieties that torment it and that have led to its retreat from a responsible leadership role.
22. Flying High: 5 Sure Ways to Get Your Business Soaring
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    Know your audience, know your message, be clear and consistent in that message, then develop a strategy and execute it.
23. Frames of War
    When Is Life Grievable?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Butler explores the media's portrayal of war and its effect on audiences' understandings of human life. Such portrayals, Butler argues lead to the rationalization of modern warfare and state violence.
24. Framing the Sixties
    Corporate Media Shadows and the 1960s
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    What Really Happened to the 1960s is a look at the role the media played in the presentation and interpretation of the struggles of the 1960s. Simultaneously, it is a consideration of the meaning of democracy in a society where the media is owned by corporations and elites who consider democracy antithetic to their hegemony.
25. Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, companies, and individuals who want to share their expertise and points of view with the media. The SOURCES directory is used by thousands of reporters and researchers who need to find quotable sources and reliable information for their news stories or research.
26. Grassroots media relations 
    A short introduction to media relations strategies for activist groups
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010   Published: 2017
    A media relations guide for organizers and activists.
27. Guerrilla Tactics for Maximizing the Results of Your Media Campaign
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    Strategy and tactics for successful media campaigns.
28. Helping you reach the media 
    How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity like advertising. SOURCES makes it possible for organizations, institutions, companies, and individuals to reach the media effectively, consistently, and inexpensively. SOURCES has been helping organizations, companies, institutions, and individuals get media attention for over 30 years.
29. How Sources magnifies your Internet visibility
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2009
    How the high Internet ranking of the Sources Web site helps magnify the public profile of organizations and companies who are listed in Sources.
30. How to Make Your B-roll Work
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    Getting a videographer or camera assigned to your story is a challenge to say the least. If you're lucky, you may get one or two cameras out to your news event. That leaves another three or four stations, not including the networks that will not cover your story because they are not there with a camera. PR practitioners can maximize their TV impact by investing in B-roll and hiring a news videography service.
31. In Print: Maximizing Coverage in Community Newspapers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    How to get coverage in community newspapers.
32. Introduction to the Media Guide
    Resource Type: Article
    An introduction to "Media for Social Change."
33. Is the Media Your Message?
    Resource Type: Article
    Mainstream media are good for getting exposure, but for social change activists they may not be the best avenue.
34. Islamic Peril
    Media And Global Violence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    
35. JournalismSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017
    A portal featuring news, articles, and resources about journalism, press freedom, free speech, censorship and related topics. 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.
36. Keeping the Rabble in Line
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
37. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    
38. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
    A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    
39. Loaves and Fishes
    The Inspiring Story of the Catholic Worker Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    
40. Manufacturing Consent 
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1992
    A film about Noam Chomsky's ideas about the media, ideology, propaganda, and elite control of society's institutions.
41. 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.
42. Maximizing Coverage of Charity Activities in Community Newspapers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    When it comes to getting coverage in the local newspaper, presentation is paramount. Tto maximize your profile and get your story or event covered, give the newspaper what it wants, when it wants it.
43. Media Exposure
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    Promoting your magazine on a shoestring.
44. Media Think
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
45. Meeting the Media
    Resource Type: Article
    Dealing with the media can be a less than thrilling experience, but it's a necessary one.
46. The Movement and the Sixties
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Drawing on interviews, manuscripts, and archives, Anderson reveals how one event built upon another and exploed into the kaleidoscope of activism in the United States by the early 1970s. Civil rights, student power, and the crusade against the Vietnam War composed the first wave of the movement, and during after after the rip tides of 1968, the movement changed and expanded, flowing into new currents of counterculture, minority empowerment, and women's liberation.
47. Necessary Illusions 
    Thought Control in Democratic Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1991
    An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
48. News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada - Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
    Review of News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada, by Robert Hackett.
49. News Conferences
    Resource Type: Article
    Basic guidelines for conducting news conferences.
50. Newspeak in the 21st Century 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
51. 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.
52. Out Lickspittle Press
    Doorkeepers to the House of Lies
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Today no one believes that our country’s success depends on an informed public and a free press. America’s success depends on its financial and military hegemony over the world. Any information inconsistent with the indispensable people’s god-given right to dominate the world must be suppressed and the messenger discredited and destroyed.
53. Outrageous Campaigners Show Size Isn't Everything
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    OutRage! therefore consciously tries to make its protests informative and amusing. It projects it's political message with wit, style, humour and theatricality. Indeed, a typical OutRage! action could be described as "radical theatre of the streets".
54. Politics of Illusion
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1980
    Elections have become a contest to determine who is the best actor.
55. Powers and Prospects
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    
56. The Press and the Class Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Early on the morning of August 19, 1997, the U.S. labor movement experienced something it had rarely known in recent years: a victory on a national scale. After two weeks out on strike, over 185,000 members of the Teamsters Union had reached a contract settlement with shipping giant United Parcel Service. It was hard to paint it as anything other than a win for the union. On almost every major issue, the Teamsters were able to force UPS to agree to their demands.
57. Pressing for Press
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1988
    A serious attempt to get press coverage can be a campaign in itself. If you really want it, go after it methodically and shamelessly.
58. Publicity and Media Resources 
    Resource Type: Website
    Resources and publications to assist your organization in getting more and better media coverage and raising awareness.
    
59. A Report On The Media Coverage Of Our World
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1981
    In May, 1981, the Edmonton Learner Centre (ELC) sponsored a two-day conference entitled "The International News Blues, a Conference on Media Coverage of our World."
    
60. Rethinking Camelot
    JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
    
61. Shadows of Liberty
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 2012
    Examines the new media monopoly by corporations in America and the public battle for truth and democracy.
62. Smooth Talking! Explore the Paid Speaking Market
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Becoming a professional speaker.
63. Sources Calendar
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009   Published: 2013
    Listings of events of interest to journalists, editors, researchers, publishers and others working in the media and in publishing, covering Canadian and international events, press conferences, meetings, festivals and holidays, as well as award deadlines.
64. Sources.com 
    Portal for Journalists and Writers - The directory for reporters, writers, editors and researchers
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1977   Published: 2009
    Sources is an information portal for journalists, freelance writers, news editors, authors, researchers and journalism students -- and a resource for organizations, institutions, businesses, and individuals who want to get media coverage of their expertise and their views on newsworthy topics.
    Journalists: Use Sources to find experts, media contacts, spokespersons, scientists, lobbyists, officials, speakers, university professors, researchers, newsmakers, CEOs, executive directors, media relations contacts, spokespeople, talk show guests, PR representatives, Canadian sources, story ideas, research studies, databases, universities, colleges, associations, businesses, government, research institutions, lobby groups, non-government organizations (NGOs), in Canada and internationally.
    Newsmakers: Use Sources to raise your profile and get media coverage. Sources is a powerful tool which complements and magnifies your other efforts to publicize yourself. See www.sources.com/Profile.htm, fill out the membership form, or call 416-964-7799.
65. The Sources HotLink 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1996   Published: 2009
    A website and newsletter dealing with media relations strategies.
66. Sources Select Resources
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1977   Published: 2009
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
67. Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Provides a list and indepth analysis of the top 25 stories that were censored throughout the year in 2009.
68. Tracking the News that Wasn't
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
69. Weapons of Mass Persuasion
    Marketing the War Against Iraq
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Rutherford, an academic and media critic at the University of Toronto, tries to show how the marketing campaign for the war against Iraq was constructed and carried out with the aid of a compliant media.
70. What Makes a Good Story?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    What makes a story interesting is often a combination of the interests of the audience, the interests and abilities of the reporter, and a long history of journalistic tradition.
71. What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    Noam Chomsky shares his approach to analyzing media and reveals the meaning and consequence of the strategic design of communication.
72. What Really Happened to the 1960s
    How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    A historical overview, critical analysis, and appraisal of the 1960s. Drawing upon historical and media studies, theories of capitalism and democracy, and in-depth study of the era's social movements, Morgan provides an extremely comprehensive and penetrating analysis of the events and aftermath of the 1960s.
73. When Hate Groups Come to Town
    A Handbook of Model Community Responses
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1986
    A handbook for dealing with hate groups in communities across North America, dealing with the nature of such groups and how they work and how communities can band together to combat them.
74. When to Contact the Media
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Advice on when to contact the media.
75. Why Hillary Won the Debate (Even though She Didn't)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    CNN and Facebook co-sponsored last week’s Democratic presidential frontrunners' "debate." After the event, CNN conducted a poll. "Who won the debate?" it asked. The result: 83% Bernie Sanders; 12% Hillary Clinton.
76. A Wikileak on the US and Al-Jazeera
    Blaming and (Killing) the Messenger
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    A Wikileaks-released cable from the U.S. embassy in Doha, Qatar, shows that U.S. officials were angry with Al Jazeera in the wake of Israel’s three-week assault on Gaza, because, alone of news networks the world over, al-Jazeera had actually shown what was happening on the ground to Gazan civilians besieged by an unrelenting Israeli air, artillery, and ground attack.
77. Wikileaks - The Smear and the Denial
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The Internet has revealed a chasm separating the corporate media from readers and viewers. Previously, the divide was hidden by the simple fact that journalists monopolised the means of mass communication. Dissent was restricted to a few lonely lines on the letter’s page, if that.

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