For those of you who want to know more about what is going on in the communications industries we suggests following the links below from the Media Reform Information Center

Media Reform Advocacy Groups:

• Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) (the #1 media watchdog group)
• Media Channel (check out their Issue Guides)
• Media Tank (fighting the FCC on media consolidation)
• Media Access Project
• Media Alliance
• OpenAirWaves.org (from the Center for Public Integrity)
• Take Back the Media (consumer pressure group fighting corporate-friendly mass media coverage)
• mediareform.net (excellent collection of links, alerts and email lists)
• Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME)
• Media Watch (challenges racism, sexism & violence in media)
• Media Transparency: The Money Behind the Media
• Rocky Mountain Media Watch (takes on the TV "news" media)
• Media Geek

Media Reform Articles/Books:

• Robert W. McChesney's website (author of several books on media and democracy)
• Media Control, Propaganda, and Democracy (excellent compilation of articles)
• The Making of a Movement (article on the media reform movement in The Nation magazine's media reform issue (Jan 2002))
• Off the Record: What Media Corporations Don't Tell You About Their Legislative Agendas (by the Center for Public Integrity)

• Strategic Press Information Network (SPIN) Project / PR with Principles (media/PR advice for grassroots activist groups)

The Media Monopoly / Corporate Media Ownership:

• The Big Ten (chart of the 10 largest media corporations and their holdings, The Nation, Jan 2002)
• Who Owns What (comprehensive list of media ownership by the Columbia Journalism Review)
• Global Concentration: The Media Ownership Chart
• Mega-Media's Interlocking Directorates (FAIR, June 2001)
• Consumers Union testimony before the U.S. Senate on Media Concentration (7/17/2001)
• Media Industry Efforts to Eliminate and Weaken the Ownership Rules
• PBS's Media Giants Site
• Mega-Mergers in the Telecommunications Industry (up to 1997)
• Media Industry Efforts to Eliminate and Weaken the Ownership Rules: What it Means for the Public and the Future of the Internet
• Democratic Media Legal Project to Challenge Media Monopoly
• The Media Monopoly (Book by Ben Bagdikian, published by Beacon Press):
• Excerpts and quotes from The Media Monopoly
• More Excerpts and quotes from The Media Monopoly
• Media Monopoly (read excerpts here at Amazon.com, but don't buy it from them... pay a few extra bucks and directly support the small publisher that actually printed the book!)

For those of you who may want to help on the research for a local program take a look at the following resources for investigative journalism & reportring.

• Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (check out their excellent First Amendment Handbook)
• Muckraker: Center for Investigative Reporting
• Investigative Reporters and Editors
• Reporter.org
• International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
• Citizen Muckraking -- How To Investigate and Right Wrongs in Your Community (by the Center for Public Integrity)
• Guerilla Video Primer