- The Adversaries: Politics and the Press
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- 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.
- After the Cataclysm
Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Rights)
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
A carefully dcoumented asessment of Western reporting on post-1975 Indochina.
- 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
Published: 2015
Drucker elucidates the scientific facts about genetically engineered foods that the PR myths have been obscuring.
- An alternative media list
Getting the news - and getting behind the news
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A selective list of English-language alternative media.
- American Power and the New Mandarins
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Beautiful Trouble - Pocket Edition
A Toolbox for Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
Ideas for organizers.
- Blindspots in The News
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
The filters that determine what gets into the "news" and what doesn't.
- Allan Bonner Communications Management Inc.
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Calling All Radicals
How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Thompson argues that we can reclaim our democracy through grassroots organizing.
- The Canadian Public Relations Society, Inc.
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News - And Why
The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
- The Censorious Vortex of the "Flash News" Barons
Resource Type: Article
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.
- CNSP Review 1974-75; Canada in an International Context
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
An analysis of developments in Canadian society based on newspaper coverage.
- Confessions of a Media Critic
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1984
Barrie Zwicker says that with the planet in crisis it isn't time for 'business as usual', least of all in journalism.
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Effective Media Relations
Nurturing your relationships with reporters
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2000
Our relationships with journalists need to be maintained over time in order to be fruitful.
- Effective Media Relations
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
Media relations is human relations. Journalism is about telling compelling stories about people and their lives.
- Expose Yourself!
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
A booklet about effective media relations, providing practical advice about getting media coverage and relating to the media.
- Fame & Fortune Online
Resource Type: Website
Comprehensive listing of awards available to Canadian journalists.
- Fear of Falling
The Inner Life of the Middle Class
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Don Fenton
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Flying High: 5 Sure Ways to Get Your Business Soaring
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
Know your audience, know your message, be clear and consistent in that message, then develop a strategy and execute it.
- Framing the Sixties
Corporate Media Shadows and the 1960s
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Getting your story into the media
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Stories are the heart and soul of the media. Journalism is about telling stories, and good stories require sources # human contacts, the people who provide informed comment and expertise, the people who make stories interesting and informative.
For more than 30 years, SOURCES has provided a vital networking service connecting journalists with the sources they need # the experts and spokespersons without whom the media would have no stories to tell.
- Grassroots media relations
A short introduction to media relations strategies for activist groups
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A media relations guide for organizers and activists.
- Guerrilla Tactics for Maximizing the Results of Your Media Campaign
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
Strategy and tactics for successful media campaigns.
- Helping you reach the media
How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage
Resource Type: Article
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.
- How Sources magnifies your Internet visibility
Resource Type: Article
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.
- How to Make Your B-roll Work
Resource Type: Article
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.
- In Print: Maximizing Coverage in Community Newspapers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2004
How to get coverage in community newspapers.
- Introduction to the Media Guide
Resource Type: Article
An introduction to "Media for Social Change."
- 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.
- Islamic Peril
Media And Global Violence
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- It Ain't Necessarily So
How the Media Remake Our Picture of Reality
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Looks at the confusion and inaccuracies surrounding media reporting of scientific studies, surveys and statistics.
- JournalismSources.com
Resource Type: Website
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.
- Keeping the Rabble in Line
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
- Letters from Lexington
Reflections on Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
- Loaves and Fishes
The Inspiring Story of the Catholic Worker Movement
Resource Type: Book
- Manufacturing Consent
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 1992
A film about Noam Chomsky's ideas about the media, ideology, propaganda, and elite control of society's institutions.
- Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Massive Uncritical Publicity for Supposed "Independent UFO Investigation"
Demonstrates Media Gullibility Once Again
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
On Monday, June 19, 1998, all of the major media outlets were suddenly filled with accounts proclaiming that an independent panel of scientists had taken a fresh look at the UFO question, and had concluded that the matter needed to be taken seriously after all.
- Maximizing Coverage of Charity Activities in Community Newspapers
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Media Culpa
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2010
A blog about the media.
- Media Exposure
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
Promoting your magazine on a shoestring.
- Media Think
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Media Watch: When the Media Tell Half the Story
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
Twenty-eight years after Chariots of the Gods? author Eric von Däniken brought pseudoscience to new lows by suggesting that our ancestors were too stupid to create the pyramids, Stonehenge, and other monuments without the help of space aliens, his ideas are alive and well.
- Meeting the Media
Resource Type: Article
Dealing with the media can be a less than thrilling experience, but it's a necessary one.
- Millions in poverty get less coverage than 482 billionaires
New FAIR study documents TV news' lack of interest in poor
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
FAIR uses data from CBS, ABC, and NBC to conduct a study on how much the media reports on poverty, concluding that there is not very much coverage of people in poverty.
- Morals and the Media
Ethics in Canadian Journalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Russell focuses on the fundamental moral questions and ethical dilemmas faced by journalists and discusses how the media both reflect and influence society.
- The Movement and the Sixties
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Necessary Illusions
Thought Control in Democratic Societies
Resource Type: Book
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."
- News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada - Review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
Review of News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada, by Robert Hackett.
- News and the Culture of Lying
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
The news media lie, says Weaver, not by slipshod reporting or unethical practices, but in the very "plot structure" of the news, in the masks of impersonality assumed by reporters and editors, and in catering to advertising interests and the appetite for excitement.
- News Conferences
Resource Type: Article
Basic guidelines for conducting news conferences.
- News media stifle ideas and debate (review)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
- News Release Distribution
Resource Type: Article
Sources media release distribution service.
- Outrageous Campaigners Show Size Isn't Everything
Resource Type: Article
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".
- Politics of Illusion
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
Elections have become a contest to determine who is the best actor.
- Powers and Prospects
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- The Press and the Cold War
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Pressing for Press
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Publicity 101 for Colleges
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Q: What's the best way for a college to get continuing media attention?
A: By being found in SOURCES, the Media's Guide to Experts and Spokespersons
- Publicity and Media Resources
Resource Type: Website
Resources and publications to assist your organization in getting more and better media coverage and raising awareness.
- A Report On The Media Coverage Of Our World
Resource Type: Article
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."
- Rethinking Camelot
JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
- Shadows of Liberty
Resource Type: Film
Published: 2012
Examines the new media monopoly by corporations in America and the public battle for truth and democracy.
- Smooth Talking! Explore the Paid Speaking Market
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
Becoming a professional speaker.
- The Snowden Hoax
How a Lie Traveled Around the World Before the Truth Could Get Its Boots On
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
- Sources Calendar
Resource Type: Website
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.
- Sources.com
Portal for Journalists and Writers - The directory for reporters, writers, editors and researchers
Resource Type: Website
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.
- Sources gives you powerful tools to help you stand out from the crowd
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
An overview of how you can use SOURCES to amplify your message.
SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, writers, producers and researchers with the sources they need for their work. Being included in SOURCES positions you as a media source and puts you in line to receive more media calls and more media coverage.
- The Sources HotLink
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
A website and newsletter dealing with media relations strategies.
- Sources Select Resources
Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
- Telling journalists who you are: Your Descriptive Paragraph
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
- Top Ten Misconceptions About the Media
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
- Tracking the News that Wasn't
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1996
A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
- Tracking the News that Wasn't (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1996
- Weapons of Mass Persuasion
Marketing the War Against Iraq
Resource Type: Book
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.
- What Makes a Good Story?
Resource Type: Article
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.
- What people are saying about Sources
Resource Type: Article
- When Hate Groups Come to Town
A Handbook of Model Community Responses
Resource Type: Article
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.
- When to Contact the Media
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2004
Advice on when to contact the media.
- Why Hillary Won the Debate (Even though She Didn't)
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Barrie Zwicker
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
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