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Magazines The Soros Media Network Bitch Magazine ColorLines Dollars and Sense Hightower Lowdown In These Times Proteus Mother Jones Ms. Media Democracy Fund Sojourners The Media Consortium: "a network of the The American Prospect country's leading, progressive, independent The Nation media outlets.” Tracy Van Slyke, director The Progressive The Public Eye The Texas Observer The Washington Monthly Center for Investigative Reporting Utne Reader Media Partners: ABC News, CNN, Frontline, Los AlterNet Angeles Times, Salon.com, the Washington Buzzflash Post, American Radio Works COA News Cursor Grist Huffington Post Russia Today (RT) Thom Hartmann Media Channel Huffington Post New America Media Max Keiser / RT / Press TV / Al-Jazeera / Pop + Politics RH Reality Check Salon Democracy Now / Amy Goodman The Raw Story / 900 stations The Washington Independent TruthDig Free Press / Media Matters Progressive Media Allies Link TV Campaign for America’s Future “Television Without Borders” Center for American Progress Center for Independent Media Danny Glover, Board Center for Media Justice member Color of Change Free Speech TV Channel 9410 DISH FreePress Channel 375 DirecTV Media Matters “Anti-Fox network” Don Rojas, director, worked for Distributes Al-Jazeera + MoveOn “Weather Underground” film NAMAC Maurice Bishop of Grenada New Politics Institute DISH Network (channel 9415) Progressive Book Club DirecTV (channel 348) and part- Progressive Communicators Network time on 200 cable affiliates in 39 The Media Consortium states. Women’s Media Center (seeks OSI funding) Working Assets/CREDO Distributes Al-Jazeera Democracy Now! Free Speech Radio News National Radio Project Pacifica Public News Service Inter Press Service “is the Radio Nation world´s leading provider of Balcony Films National Public Radio - $1.8 million from Open Brave New Films Society Foundations in 2010. information on global issues, CurrentTV 10.6 % from CPB. 900 stations. backed by a network of Free Speech TV journalists in more than 100 Guerrilla News Network countries…” LinkTV MichaelMoore.com Paper Tiger Television Pacifica stations PoliticsTV CPB funding: 2009-2010 The Real News Third World Majority KPFA, Berkeley $451,000 $299,958 Veracifier KPFK, LA $382,035 $350,464 Sundance Institute / WPFW, DC $238,381 $282,083 Book Publishers KPFT, Houston $160,529 $156,474 PBS Berrett-Koehler WBAI, NY $359,915 $319,525 Chelsea Green Monthly Review Press Seal Press Seven Stories Project Syndicate: distributes commentaries from South End Press George Soros and Joseph Stiglitz 474 leading The New Press newspapers in 151 countries Beyond the Echo Chamber Other Worlds news service – IPS Southern Poverty Law Center Free Press October 2011 Movement People for the American Way .

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“The Voice of the Voiceless” News Production and Journalistic Practice at Al Jazeera English
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