- 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.
- Are you paying too much to send out your news releases?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
If you have been using a corporate newswire service to send out your news releases you are likely paying $500 or more to send out a single release -- and that release may not even be reaching the people you want to reach.
- Between the Lines
How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
An exploration of medthods of "dec-doing" our daily newspapers and radio/TV news. Examines our predominant sources of information (mass media) and indicates the existence of many alternative sources of informaiton.
- 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
- Breaking News from Around the World
Resource Type: Website
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- The Canadian News Synthesis Project
Organization profile published 1976
Resource Type: Organization
Published: 1976
Presenting current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
- 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.
- 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.
- Countercurrents
Resource Type: Website
An alternative news site based in India. "We bring out what the mainstream media fails to tell you, or hides from you. These are the things that really matter. The things which may determine the fate of planet earth! The future of our children! In a word, the survival of the species!"
- Counterpunch
Periodical profile
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
- Creeping contradictions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
News tidbits.
- Daily News, Eternal Stories
The Mythological Role of Journalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
Argues that in many ways news articles of today draw from age-old tales have have chastened, entertained, and entranced people since the beginning of time.
- Daily news, eternal stories (book review)
Review of Daily News, Eternal Stories: The Mythological Role of Journalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
- Dean's Digital World: The reporter's friend
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
- Don't be a Time Bandit
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
Don't waste journalists' time.
- The Form of News
A History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
A history of newspaper design in the USA, the ways of writing, how papers are organized, presentation values of typography, space and pictures, and the impact of changing technology
- From Politics to Profit
The Commercialization of Canadian Daily Newspapers, 1890-1920
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Getting the Whole Story
Reporting and Writing the News
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
- A Guide to the Photographic Identification of Individual Whales Based on Natural & Acquired Markings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- Hidden Agendas: How Journalists Influence the News
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
A right-wing critique of the theory that media owners determine the nature of news coverage. Instead, the authors contend that journalists have the most influence over news coverage, and that journalists tend to be on the left.
- A History of News
From the Drum to the Satellite
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- HotLink Resouce Shelf: In the News
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
Review of a book on media relations in Canada.
- Human nature
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
A review of Jason W Moore's book on world-ecology, Capitalism in the Web of Life.
- IFJ Calls on Unions to Confront Crisis of Gender Bias in the News
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)calls for a new debate in newsrooms over reporting gender issues and gave its backing to a global campaign to combat sexist reporting.
- In The News
The Practice of Media Relations in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Carney gives everyone, from student to seasoned practitioner, a thorough understanding of who the media are, how they work and how to approach them with stories.
- International Multimedia News Lab Launched in Prague
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Representatives of World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and PPF Group have launched the International Multimedia News Lab in Prague. The training and educational centre, combined with the editorial house is called FUTUROOM - newsroom of the future.
- Introduction to the Media Guide
Resource Type: Article
An introduction to "Media for Social Change."
- Inventing Reality
The Politics of News Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
- Iraq: News website latest target in government's legal offensive against independent media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iraqi governmentâ##s continuing legal offensive against independent news media, which for the first time is also targeting Internet media.
- Media and Minorities
Representing Diversity in a Multicultral Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
An examination of the politics of media minority relations in a multicultural Canada.
- The Narco News Bulletin
Resource Type: Website
Reporting on the drug war and democracy. Fostering authentic journalism.
- 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."
- The News
Inside the Canadian Media
Resource Type: Book
The Zwicker-MacDonald book is a selection of articles published in "Content" in the years between Keith Davey's Senate Committee report and Tom Kent's Royal Commission on Newspapers. The articles are a guide to the best of Canadian reporting in the 1970's. Various articles look at the state of journalism in Canada, the conflict between good investigative reporting and reporting that is no longer a profession but a business. The concluding essay deals with the essentials of what constitutes good journalism-the business of translating facts into news.
- News and Dissent
The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Hackett digs deep into several issues that affect how we hear, read, and see what is reported to us, as well as who and what decide exactly what is it that we hear, read and see.
- 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 Release Distribution
Resource Type: Article
Sources media release distribution service.
- The Newsmongers
How The Media Distort the Political News
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
- Power and Betrayal in the Canadian Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Addresses concerns about the forces that shape the diversity of news and the way news is delivered in Canada.
- Ribbon of Type
Making National News: A History of Canadian Press
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Thanks to the books of Pierre Berton, the nineteenth-century struggle to build a railway to the Pacific and unite a new nation is well-known. Making National News explores a nation-building exercise that was perhaps even more crucial -- the establishment of a wire service to deliver news from coast to coast.
- Science Daily
Resource Type: Website
Your source for the latest research news.
- Seven News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
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.
- 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.
- The Sources HotLink
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
A website and newsletter dealing with media relations strategies.
- Spinwars
Politics and New Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
- The State of the News Media
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2003
Journalists are older, smarter, generally more educated, and usually more cynical than their predecessors. Cynicism often breeds distrust making the current generation of news reporters more suspicious and more formidable than ever.
- Taz: Die Tageszeitung
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
German-language daily published in Berlin.
- There's no such thing as a slow news day
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2003
The news media are always looking for news.
- 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
- Understanding the News Business
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1983
- Watching the News
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2000
Watching the news to learn what the media are interested in.
- What Does a Reporter Want?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
What does a reporter what when they interview you?
- 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.
- Women's ENews
Resource Type: Website
Covering issues of particular concern to women and providing women's perspectives on public policy. Pro-Zionist coverage of Israel.
- Yesterday's News
Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.
- Yesterday's News (Review)
Review of Yesterday's News: Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
A review of Yesterday's News: Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us.
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