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Alternative Press Resources

Librarian: Kate Merrill



Alternative Press Index
Indexes the alternative press in North America, with citations drawn from roughly 250 alternative, radical, and left publications. Periodicals indexed include: Cineaste, Environmental action, Socialist review, Women's review of books. Approximately 17,000 new records (some with abstracts) are added each year. Online coverage includes 1991-present, with quarterly updates.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Center's resources are divided into topics which contains numerous full text pieces further categorized by the nature of their material: viewpoints (essays), reference, statistics, magazines and newspapers, images, primary documents and web sites. Provides information on social issues.
AILEENA – World-wide Media Index
Alternative Viewpoints on the Internet
(by subject)
News and Newspapers Online
NewspaperLinks.com

 

 

Alternative News Sources on the Web
Liberal/Progressive
Conservative
Conservative Monitor
NewsMax.com
Opinion Inc.
Palladium
The Washington Times



Counterpunch

Wiretap
(Independent news for youth)
The Columbus Free Press

 

Alternative Magazines & Journals on the Web

Liberal/Progressive
Conservative

Counterpoise

CovertAction Quarterly
Defense Monitor
Democratic Left Human Events Online
Dissent

Insight on the News

Government Information Insider
Enter Stage Right

The Humanist Reason Magazine
Monthly Review  
Neoconservative
New Politics   The Public Interest
Pop and Politics  
Paleoconservative
Popmatters.com
Public Citizen Magazine   The American Conservative
Rachel's Environmental & Health Weekly  
Skeptical Inquirer  
Utne Reader  
Z Magazine  

 

 

Media Advocacy/Reform/Watchdog Sources on the Web

 
Alliance for Community Media
The Center for Public Integrity
Civic Media Center
Electronic Frontier Foundation
FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
Critic of mass media
The Freedom Forum Online
Nonpartisan foundation studying free press and free speech
Independent Media Center
Independent media collective
Institute for Public Accuracy
MediaChannel.org
Media Reform Information Center
Media Watch
NewsWatch: a consumer’s guide to the news
The news behind the news
The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
"independent opinion research group that studies attitudes towards the press, politics, and public policy issues"
Project Censored
A Sonoma State University study researching
the extent of censorship in the media
 
 

 

 

Commentary/Opinion Magazines

Liberal/Progressive
Conservative


Commentary/Opinion Sources on the Web

 

Parody/Satire Sources on the Web

 

Issues-Oriented

 


© 2003-2005, Kate Pitcher
updated 05.06.05