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AllAfrica
It is a multi-media content service provider, systems technology developer and the largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide.
Article 19
They monitor, research, publish, lobby, campaign and litigate on behalf of freedom of expression wherever it is threatened.
Association of Zimbabwe Journalists in the UK
The association aims bring together journalists in the diaspora to work together with help those at home to help expand the shrinking democratic space in our country through establishing a vibrant, non-governmental mass media.
Balancing Act
Balancing Act is facilitating the development of content for the internet and other new media technologies in Africa that will have an impact on people’s lives and that they will want to use, in the three fields of economic, social and cultural development.
Committee to Protect Journalists
An organization dedicated to the global defense of press freedom.
Common Dreams
They are committed to being on the cutting-edge of using the internet as a political organizing tool - and creating new models for internet activism.
Development in Practice
Multi-disciplinary journal of practice-based analysis and research concerning the social dimensions of development and humanitarianism.
DevMedia
Media for Development and Democracy. Portal site to help people exchange information and news about how communication tools can promote development and democracy. It´s focus is on media that are in the hands of people and communities.
E-joussour
The majority of the Maghreb and Mashreq NGOs are not in a position to benefit from the advantages of Internet visibility. The Forum des Alternatives Maroc Association (FMAS) initiated in partnership with Oxfam Novib and Alternatives/AlterInter the project of the Maghreb/Machrek civil socity portal.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) works to defend free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights. Their work includes providing legal support for individuals whose rights have been violated by the US government or corporations, campaigning, advising policymakers and information spreading.
Electronic Intifada (EI)
Electronic Intifada project (EI) is an online publication produced by a network of pro-Palestinian activists with a history of Internet and media activism.
Essential Information
They are involved in a variety of projects to encourage citizens to become active and engaged in their communities and provide provocative information to the public on important topics neglected by the mass media and policy makers.
Forced Migration Review
FMR serves the humanitarian community by providing a practice-oriented forum for debate on issues facing refugees and internally displaced people in order to improve policy and practice and to involve refugees and IDPs in programme design and implementation.
Freedominfo
Portal that describes best practices, consolidates lessons learned, explains campaign strategies and tactics, and links the efforts of freedom of information advocates around the world.
IJNet
International Center for Journalists´ online source for media assistance news, journalism training opportunities, reports on the state of the media around the world and media directories.
Index on Censorship
The organization works to protect the basic human right of free expression
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR)
IWPR supports recovery and development in crisis zones by providing professional training, financial assistance and an international platform to independent media, human rights activists and other local democratic voices. UK.
Media Accuracy on Latin America
Media Accuracy on Latin America is a project of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), an independent nonprofit organization and publisher of the NACLA Report on the Americas. It is a new initiative that seeks to foster public discourse by offering more pluralistic views on events unfolding throughout the hemisphere.
Media Channel
A nonprofit, public interest Web site dedicated to global media issues. MediaChannel offers news, reports and commentary from its international network of media-issues organizations and publications, as well as original features from contributors and staff.
Media Channel Africa
Africa features reports, case studies and commentary on the media's impact on African political processes, human rights, conflict, healthcare, corruption and development.
Media Monitors Network - MMN
MMN supports freedom of the press and works on independent and investigative journalism.
MediaLens
Media Lens is a response to the unwillingness, or inability, of the mainstream media to tell the truth about the real causes and extent of many of the problems facing us, such as human rights abuses, poverty, pollution and climate change.
Mid-East Realities - MER
MER's purpose is to present independent information and analysis about what is really going on in today's Middle East as well as in Washington about the Middle East.
Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP)
The original conception of MERIP was to provide information and analysis on the Middle East. A non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Washington, DC, MERIP provides news and perspectives about the Middle East not available from mainstream news sources. US.
MotherJones
The non-profit Foundation for National Progress, which has been publishing Mother Jones magazine since 1976, now also produces this Web site. Mother Jones is an independent, nonprofit magazine whose roots lie in a commitment to social justice implemented through first-rate investigative reporting. US.
Nepal Forum of Enviornmental Journalists (NEFEJ)
NEFEJ was formed in 1986 by a group of journalists with an objective of promoting the participation of mass media - both print and electronic - in raising public awareness in these vital areas of national life.
Palestine Media Watch - PMWATCH
An organization promoting fair coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the US mainstream media, which identifies, reports on, and protests clear journalistic failures by the US media in covering the conflict and helps media outlets with access to pro-Palestinian points of view and voices for interviews, op-eds, or background discussions, whether in the United States, Israel, or the Occupied Territories (OT).
Protest Net
It is a collective of activists who are working together to create their own media. By publishing a public record of their political activities on the web are taking a stand against the established media.
Rabble
Rabble.ca is a new kind of medium, one built on the efforts of progressive journalists, writers, artists and activists across Canada.
Radio Earth Summit
Radio Earth Summit is primarily focused on gathering stories from people who have been affected by the activities of multinational corporations. It's a project of Friends of the Earth International.
Reporters Without Borders
Deffending press freedom.
Southbound
Development communicators and publishers
Southern Africa Media Diversity Journal
The Southern Africa Media Diversity journal publishes analytical and reflective content on media practice for those involved in media in Southern Africa.
The Media Research Hub
A new online resource for researchers, advocates, practitioners, and policymakers working for a more democratic and participatory public sphere.
The Perspective
The Perspective is a newsmagazine from the Liberian Democratic Future (LDF), a group of Liberians from different ethnic backgrounds, genders, religious beliefs and political persuasions who are dedicated to pluralistic, democratic Liberia.
Tierramérica
News and reports about environment and development. Some articles in english.
Voices21
Association of media activists with a view towards building a new social movement around media and communication issues.
Z Magazine
Independent monthly of critical thinking on political, cultural, social, and economic life. Z Magazine is available in print and online.
 
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In 2005, a group of scholars and activists, mostly from the global South, created the Copy/South Research Group to analyse, criticise, and confront the oppressive nature of current global copyright regimes, such as those defended by the World Intellectual Property Organisation, and similar ones around the globe.
A network of over 150 civil society organizations in Nigeria comprising of civil rights, grassroots, and community-based Non-Governmental Organizations campaigning for the passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill and eventual implementation when it becomes law in Nigeria.
Founded in Dakar (Senegal) in 2000 as a follow-up to a regional conference in preparation for the World Summit on Information Society ( WSIS) FAMEDEV aims to promote the development of the African Continent through information, communication and new technologies conscientising people especially women, on main development issues.
It promotes, supports, encourages and undertakes social science, statistical and scientific research pertaining to the print, electronic, film and other media with a view to enhancing and strengthening their freedom and independence. India.
Created by various independent and alternative media organizations and activists for the purpose of providing grassroots coverage of the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, the Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. In addition to the site's own news, it is a portal with links to dozens of other independent sources around the world.

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Selected news
World Peace and Security /Media - Thu Aug 14 2008
Media criticise Gaza death ruling
Reuters news agency says the Israeli army has made reporting in Gaza "almost impossible" after it cleared a tank crew that killed one of its cameramen.
Source: BBC News

Human Rights /Gender /Media - Wed Aug 13 2008
Ransacking of longtime women's news agency
The devastation and disorder of a burglary and violent vandalism at the women’s news agency CIMAC (Women’s Communication & Information) offices in Mexico City last weekend suggest that it was more than a common break-in.
Source: AWID

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