Columbia Journalism Review: Offers individual corporate timelines and an alphabetical index of major media companies.
mediachannel.org: A media ownership chart is but one of many useful tools from this "media issues supersite, featuring criticism, breaking news, and investigative reporting from hundreds of organizations worldwide."
Federal Communications Comission (FCC): This link connects directly to the Media Bureau who "develops, recommends and administers the policy and licensing programs relating to electronic media, including cable television, broadcast television, and radio in the United States and its territories...also handles post-licensing matters regarding Direct Broadcast Satellite service."
Framing Sociology & The Media: The author provides a list of frames from which to study mass media. Located on the echochamber website.
MediaStudies: The purpose MediaStudies.com is to help advance research and education in media studies and critical thinking. The site serves as a hub - providing links to international news, media studies sites, and other resources for media educators, students, researchers, and the wider community. Links are self-described.
Media Education Foundation: The mission of the Media Education Foundation (MEF) is to answer the challenge posed by the radical and accelerating corporate threat to democracy. Since its founding in 1991 by University of Massachusetts Communication professor and media scholar Sut Jhally, MEF has grown to become the nation's leading producer and distributor of educational videos designed to inspire students and others to reflect critically on the structure of the media industry and the content it produces.
Media Reform Information Center: A large list of Internet links broken down by reform subject.
Free Press and the Free Press Action Fund | Free Press : Free Press is a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media. Through education, organizing and advocacy, we promote diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, and universal access to communications.
Museum of Broadcast Communications : Our mission is to collect, preserve, and present historic and contemporary radio and television content as well as educate, inform, and entertain through our archives, public programs, screenings, exhibits, publications and online access to our resources.
Broadcasting History : Over 35 years ago Marvin R. Bensman began this radio collection from original transcriptions, private collectors and other institutional collections to preserve for research and scholarship what people had once heard over American radio. It was decided not to attempt to collect every program of every series which exists, but a representative sampling of most series and shows.
The Corporate Library: The leading independent source for corporate governance and executive compensation information and analysis.
Sociology & Media: What About The Public? | Echo Chamber Project : The Echo Chamber Project is an open source, investigative documentary about how the television news media became an uncritical echo chamber to the Executive Branch leading up to the war in Iraq. By developing collaborative techniques for producing this film, then this project can potentially provide some solutions for incorporating a broader range of voices and perspectives into the mainstream media.
PTTV : Paper Tiger Television (PTTV) is an open, non-profit, volunteer video collective. Through the production and distribution of our public access series, media literacy/video production workshops, community screenings and grassroots advocacy PTTV works to challenge and expose the corporate control of mainstream media.
Cybertelecom : Site Map : Established in 1997, Cybertelecom is an educational not-for-profit project focusing on Federal Internet law and policy. The project is an educational resource where visitors can learn about federal laws, their implications, and how courts have interpreted them.
I Want Media - Media News & Resources :
I WANT MEDIA is a Web site focusing on diversified media news and resources. It provides quick access to media news and industry data, updated throughout the day.
Sources in the History of Mass Communication : This is an online bibliography of books, articles, dissertations, and other academic resources in the field of Mass Communication History . Although it is by no means complete or exhaustive, it does contain many of the most frequently cited resources in a variety of research areas as well as many classic older texts.
FCC Strategic Goals: Media - Media Ownership : 2006 Review of the Ownership Rules
Media Access Project: Media Ownership : Media Access Project ( MAP ) is a non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to promoting the public's First Amendment right to access a diverse marketplace of ideas in the electronic mass media of today and tomorrow.
Local TV: Ownership : The State of the News Media report was written by the Project for Excellence in Journalism , with the aid of many collaborators. Funding was provided by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Newspapers: Ownership : The State of the News Media report was written by the Project for Excellence in Journalism , with the aid of many collaborators. Funding was provided by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Harvard Journal of Law & Technology : Symposium 2004 : Panel : The recent changes to the FCC's media ownership rules are a topic of ongoing and heated debate. This panel discussion is intended to explore the rule changes and, more importantly, the larger questions surrounding media ownership and control.
http://www.compaine.com/ : Author of Who Owns the Media? among other books.
Media Matters with Bob McChesney on WILL-AM : Media Matters features host Bob McChesney in conversation with a variety of guests. Listeners may call with comments or questions.
Ben Bagdikian interview : Media critic and former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley. He played a role in obtaining and publishing portions of The Pentagon Papers and is the author of The Media Monopoly .
Mark Crispin Miller : Professor Mark Crispin Miller's blog.
Center for Media Literacy : A pioneer in its field, the Center for Media Literacy (CML) is an educational organization that provides leadership, public education, professional development and educational resources nationally. Dedicated to promoting and supporting media literacy education as a framework for accessing, analyzing, evaluating, creating and participating with media content, CML works to help citizens, especially the young, develop critical thinking and media production skills needed to live fully in the 21st century media culture. The ultimate goal is to make wise choices possible.
Theoretical Approaches to the Mass Media : Brian Neve is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bath. His research interests centre on the relationship between film, cultural and political history and politics, with particular reference to the United States, Britain and Europe.