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Local Media (non-corprate) Content

Interlochen Public Radio
www.interlochen.org/ipr/
Established in 1963, Interlochen Public Radio (IPR) is owned and operated by Interlochen Center for the Arts. The public radio service is home to two distinct radio stations broadcasting continuous classical music (88.7/100.9 FM) and news (91.5 FM) to northwest lower Michigan. For those outside of our regular broadcast area, IPR streaming is available online.

Northern Express
www.northernexpress.com
Northern Express Weekly is northern Michigan's largest weekly newspaper, distributed in 13 counties throughout the northwestern lower peninsula of Michigan

RadioAnyway
radioanyway.org
RaidoAnyway is a local produced radio magazine, all vounteer effort. Visit the site and listen to streaming audio of past shows and learn how you can get involved.

the spectra show
www.spectrashow.org
Hosted by Bob Allen every Saturday night from 9 PM to 11PM, Mix of contemporary songwriters, folk and blues

Thirdeye Magazine
www.thirdeyemag.com
Thirdeye is a collective of artists dedicated to promoting positive social change through the use of creativity. We believe our global and local environments are malleable and can be reshaped to meet basic human needs worldwide

tvtc2 Community Televison
www.tctv2.org
The local community access cable channel in the Traverse City area

Ventingmedia.Com
ventingmedia.com
Contains random clips of activist actives in the Grand Traverse Bay Area

Media Tools and other

The Empowerment Project
www.empowermentproject.org
The Empowerment Project project provides facilities, training and other support for independent producers, artists, activists and organizations working in video and other electronic media.

Grand Rapids Community Media Center
www.grcmc.org
The Community Media Center is one of the nation's first models for citizen access to cyberspace. A group of non-commercial media organizations joined forces to renovate and co-locate in the majestic West Side Library in Grand Rapids, MI in 1997. This prototype Community Media Center provides training in radio, television, and information technology; as well as access to all the equipment necessary to implement the training. Multi-media transmission possibilities available through the CMC include cable TV, broadcast radio, and the Internet.

GRIDD
www.griid.org
Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy

I Love Radio
iloveradio.org
Becasue television is for those who lack imagination

The Journalist's Toolbox
www.journaliststoolbox.com
A project of the American Press Institute, this site is extremely useful for researching a wide range of topics via the Web. The API is a training organization for professional journalists.

Media Education Foundation
www.mediaed.org/
The Meda Education Foundation is a nonprofit educational organization devoted to media research and production of resources to aid educators and others in fostering analytical media literacy. We believe that a media literate citizenry is essential to a vibrant democracy in a diverse and complex society.

MediaRights
www.mediarights.org
This is a nonprofit community Web site that is designed to help you use social issue documentary films. We offer ways to find films you are looking for, organize events around a specific film, or make more meaningful films about issues in your community.

Prometheus Radio Project
www.prometheusradio.org
The Prometheus Radio Project serves as a microradio resource center offering legal, technical, and organizational support for the non-commercial community broadcasters

Transom.org
Transom.org is an experiment in channeling new work and voices to public radio through the Internet, for discussing that work, and encouraging more.

Media Reform and Politics of Media

AdBusters
www.adbusters.org
Adbusters is dedicated to reinventing the outdated paradigms of our consumer culture and building a brave new understanding of living

FAIR
www.fair.org
A nonprofit media watch group working "to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints." Their site offers analysis of current media trends, including an article called, What's Wrong With The News. Their website offers extensive archives of articles written on a range of issues that are underreported by the media.

Free Press-- mediareform network
mediareform.net
Free Press is a national organization working to increase informed public participation in crucial media policy debates. The ultimate aim of Free Press is to generate a range of policies that will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system with a strong nonprofit and noncommercial sector.

MediaChannel
www.mediachannel.org
"As the media watch the world we watch the media" -- MediaChannel.org is a nonprofit, public interest Web site dedicated to global media issues. MediaChannel offers news, reports and commentary from our international network of media-issues organizations and publications, as well as original features from contributors and staff.

Media Matters
www.mediamatters.org
Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. Conservative misinformation is defined as news or commentary presented in the media that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda.

On The Media
www.wnyc.org/onthemedia
Produced by WNYC, heard weekly on NPR stations

Take Back The Media
www.takebackthemedia.com/
Take Back The Media is a cooperative project by progressive American citizens. We are dismayed at the pro-government, pro-corporate bias shown by American media, and we intend to do something about it.

Alternative news sources

AlterNet.org
www.alternet.org
AlterNet.org is a project of the Independent Media Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism.

AirAmericaRadio
http://www.airamericaradio.com
Liars beware: Al Franken, co-host Katherine Lanpher and Team O'Franken invite you to spend three hours a day in the Zero Spin Zone -- weekdays noon-3pm

BuzzFlash--Daily Headlines & Breaking News
www.buzzflash.com
BuzzFlash provides headlines, news, and commentary for a geographically-diverse, politically-savvy, pro-democracy, anti-hypocrisy web audience, reaching 2.5 million visitors a month and growing.

Common Dreams
www.commondreams.org/
An eclectic mix of politics, issues and breaking news with an emphasis on progressive perspectives that are increasingly hard to find with our corporate-dominated media.

CounterPunch
www.counterpunch.org
Counterpunch.org is the bi-weekly muckraking newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair

Cursor
www.cursor.org
In the coming year we will continue to combine coverage of the agenda-setting mainstream media with alternative viewpoints that both complement and challenge the official version of events.

Democracy Now!
www.democracynow.org
Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 140 stations in North America.Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S. The program is hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez and produced out of the Downtown Community Television Center, a community media center in New York City’s Chinatown.

Environmental News Network ™
www.enn.com
For over 10 years, the Environmental News Network ™ has helped to educate the world about environmental issues. Our goals are to help educate the public on major environmental issues and topics and to provide tools to help individuals take action in their own communities.

Free Speech Internet Television
www.freespeech.org/
What is Free Speech Internet Television?
Free Speech Internet Television is the first audio/video hub on the web created and defined by the people who use it.Media Education Foundation

Guerrilla News
www.guerrillanews.com
Guerrillanews - visit them, some great video clips and news that you don't find in the corporate media

Inter Press Service News Agency
www.ipsnews.net
IPS, civil society's leading news agency, is an independent voice from the South and for development, delving into globalisation for the stories underneath. Another communication is possible.

In These Times
www.inthesetimes.com
In These Times' editorial content is shaped by a commitment to providing the news, analysis and perspective that is essential to developing a national and global movement for democracy and justice.

MakeThemAccountable.Com
www.makethemaccountable.com/
Tired of all the conservative rhetoric on the airwaves? Here are some unconservative listening experiences.

Michigan Indy Media Center
http://michiganimc.org/

News You Might Have Missed
www.newsdesk.org
Newsdesk.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, commercial-free news bureau dedicated to the principle that democracy can only flourish when citizens are fully informed about the urgent issues of our times. Subscribe to their weekly email newsletter, News You Might Have Missed, to catch fascinating stories from far-reaching media sources.

WebActive
www.webactive.com
WebActive contains the following features:
RadioNation, Pacifica Network News,Democracy NOW!, Hightower Radio, WebActive Directory, Soapbox, CounterSpin
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