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Alternative Media
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Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Anecdotes tell dramatic story of British underground press (book review)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1988
Authentic journalism: weapon of the people
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
The path out of the crises wrought by commercial journalism opens when citizens steal back the mission that big media claimed but failed to do: Honest, coherent storytelling.
Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country
Resource Type: Film/Video
Anders Ostergaard's award-winning documentary assembles footage smuggled out of Burma/Myanmar by an underground journalist group known as Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB). The film explores how DVB members regularly put their lives at risk to reveal the realities of living under a brutal military occupation despite the government crackdown on free media and internet.
Citizen media
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The term citizen media refers to forms of content produced by private citizens who are otherwise not professional journalists.
Connexions Archive seeks a new home
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
Could a 'mini-paper' nip at the heels of mainstream press?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
A mini-paper would be incredibly inexpensive to publish. There would be no requirement for newsprint, a huge printing plant or large delivery system.
Creation of Sustainable Free Media Would Be Huge Breakthrough
Part 4 of The Crisis in Canadian Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Independent media organizations would approach news differently compared to the coverage provided by corporate-owned media.
Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
From the Ashes of Dying Newspapers Will Come Authentic News
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Every time a daily newspaper of the obsolete model lays off another round of reporters, more of them come to us to study and learn the craft anew from this very different and opposite angle: from below, as opposed to the top down model that encrusted around them and doomed the previous version of their careers. Truth is, there is a direct correlation between the space in the media sphere that gets freed up every time a daily newspaper loses circ or dies and the increased reach that we and others have as we replace them with a better more people-powered model. So don#t mourn the American daily newspaper. Anything you liked about it will continue but from a different set of new media. The time will come when one or more of those publications, or a new one yet to come in the US, will turn to the models that work for the daily Por Esto! or El Libertador or others South of the border, kissing their slavish dependence on advertisers goodbye and throwing their lot in, instead, with the larger multitudes of society.
Funding for Non-profit Media or Public Interest Activities
Part 7 of 7 - Canada's Media in Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
A group that launches, or even refocuses, an independent news media project # or raises money for just about any public-interest activity # will probably have success in fundraising if it does the proper research and targets a unique audience. It will need to demonstrate that it offers an important public service, such as providing in-depth coverage of local political, economic, and social issues not covered adequately by other media.
Getting your story into the media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
Helping you reach the media
How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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 Alternative Media Provide The Crucial Critique Of The Mainstream
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
The closeness of the mainstream to dominant economic, cultural and ideological forces means that the mainstream largely functions to promote the interests of the military/industrial/political complex. Yet within advanced capitalist economies, the contradictions and complexities of corporate media have provided certain spaces for progressive journalism.
I.F. Stone: A Wonderful Pariah
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1989
Independent media advocates must develop creative news sites
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
We should be able to come up with two or three practical models that can be used to set up sustainable news and information production and delivery systems.
Liberating Thought: Toward an Independent Mass Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Prospects for democracy are dependent upon the growth of an independent media with wide exposure in the general population comparable to that of the corporate press.
Liberation News Service
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A leftist alternative news service in the USA from 1967 to 1981.
Sources gives you powerful tools to help you stand out from the crowd
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
Underground press
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and other western nations.
Underground Press Syndicate
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A network of countercultural newspapers and magazines formed in 1967 .