1. Alternative Media is an Absolute Necessity!!
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   By now most people that have been paying close attention to the traditional media and made some attempt to look at other sources know that the traditional media is controlled by corporate interests and they’re financed by commercials that create a strong bias not to expose the corruption of those that advertise with them.
2. An alternative media list
   Getting the news - and getting behind the news
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014   Published: 2017
   A selective list of English-language alternative media.
3. Authentic journalism: weapon of the people
   Resource Type: Article
   First 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.
4. Canwest latest 'media giant' to exploit news operations
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2009
   Media corporations claim to care about quality journalism, but they've deceived Canadians for decades -- censoring news to protect their profits, pandering to the interests of the corporate world, and neglecting to invest adequately in their news operations. For decades powerful media corporations have decided what news Canadians should read, hear, and see. By reading just about any Canadian daily newspaper it's not hard to see how the values of corporate-owned media are quite different from the values and interests of the majority of Canadians.
5. The Case for Grassroots Archives 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
6. Could a 'mini-paper' nip at the heels of mainstream press?
   Resource Type: Article
   First 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.
7. Creation of Sustainable Free Media Would Be Huge Breakthrough
   Part 4 of The Crisis in Canadian Media
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2010
   Independent media organizations would approach news differently compared to the coverage provided by corporate-owned media.
8. The Descent of the Left Press: From IF Stone to The Nation
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   Just about fifty years ago when I was becoming politicized around the war in Vietnam, I began searching desperately for information and analysis that could explain why this senseless war was taking place. After taking out a subscription to I.F. Stone’s Weekly that an old friend had recommended, the scales began to fall from my eyes.
9. Funding for Non-profit Media or Public Interest Activities
   Part 7 of 7 - Canada's Media in Crisis
   Resource Type: Article
   First 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.
10. How Alternative Media Provide The Crucial Critique Of The Mainstream
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
11. I.F. Stone's Weekly
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1953   Published: 1971
    Weekly newsletter published by I.F. Stone from 1953 to 1971. All issues between January 17, 1953 and December 1, 1971 are online.
12. Independent media advocates must develop creative news sites
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
13. Independent media guide
    A guide with advice and information on developing your own media, from online and printed publications to speeches, flyposting and more.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    
14. Journalists, community groups need to develop independent Canadian media
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    It is shocking that – in the 21st Century – we still have a system under which corporate over-lords – not the journalists who produce the news – control the process that determines the content of mainstream media.
15. Liberating Thought: Toward an Independent Mass Media
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
16. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2016
    Alternative Media
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    A special issue on alternative media.
17. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016
    Fake News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    "Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentary about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news." Since we don't like to be left out when a new fad comes on the scene, Other Voices is jumping on the bandwagon too, with this, our last issue of 2016, devoted to "fake news." Our focus, however, is not so much on the crackpots and trolls making mischief on the fringes, but on the dominant actors in the fake news business: governments and the corporate and state media.
18. Radical Newspapers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
19. The website of I.F. Stone
    Resource Type: Website
    Website devoted to the journalism and life of radical journalist I.F. Stone (1907-1989).
20. U.S. Progressive Periodicals Directory
    First Edition - 1982-1983 Edition
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1982
    A listing of 380 social justice magazines, newspapers, and newsletters with a national (U.S.) focus.
21. We can defeat the corporate media’s war to snuff out independent journalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2021
    as journalists seek to liberate themselves from the strictures of the old corporate media, that same corporate media is working very hard to characterise the new technology as a threat to media freedoms. This self-serving argument should be treated with a great deal of scepticism. I want to use my own experiences to argue that quite the reverse is true. And that the real danger is allowing the corporate media to reassert its monopoly over narrating the world to us.
22. Without Fear, Without Favor
    The Future of Journalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The Words “lifetime achievement” have a certain undertone. There is a hint that the work is finished.
23. The work of authentic journalists is the most important thing for social movements
    How Mercedes Osuna became a rebel with a cause
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Not an activist, social organizer nor a defender: Mercedes Osuna would rather define her work as human labor, something that she has dedicated an entire life to. She was born in a place were true words are heard with the heart and she lived out her convictions at a young age.
24. World Charter of Free Media
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A charter for the democratization of communication.

Experts on M‚dias ind‚pendants in the Sources Directory

1. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance