Resources

Bay Area journalism Web sites
Codes of ethics
Books
Magazines
Resources for teachers and researchers
News media watchers, national
Selected Bay Area news media
Tools and tips

Bay Area journalism Web sites

• Action Coalition for Media Education, Northern California
• Alternet "media culture" page
• Bay Area Black Journalists Association
• BeyondChron (left-wing political bent, "The Voice of the Rest")
• California First Amendment Coalition (lawyers, lobbyists for free speech)
• Californians Aware: The Center for Public Forum Rights
• Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism,
  San Francisco State University
• Center for Investigative Reporting, San Francisco
• ChronWatch (right-wing political bent, focused on S.F. Chronicle)
• Graduate journalism program at Stanford University
• Graduate journalism program at U.C. Berkeley (Contains locally relevant journalism news)
• Independent Media Center, S.F. Bay Area (left-wing political bent)
• Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University
• Media Alliance (Association of Bay Area media people news and non-news)
• Media Watch Santa Cruz
• New California Media, a project of Pacific News Service
• News Watch at San Francisco State University
• Project Censored
• Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
• San Francisco Media Advocates, focusing on cable & broadcast reform in San Francisco
• Society of professional Journalists, Northern California chapter
• Youth Media Council

 

Codes of ethics

• Society of Professional Journalists
• Radio-Television News Directors Association
• American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE)
• Associated Press Managing Editors Association (APME)
• The New York Times
• More ...

Books

• The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are afraid of the wrong things. Barry Glassner. New York: Basic Books, 2003. 282 pgs.
• Don't Shoot the Messenger: How Our Growing Hatred of the Media Threatens Free Speech for All of Us. Bruce W. Sanford. Free Press, 1999. 257 pgs.
• The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect. Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel. New York: Crown Publisher, 2001. 205 pgs.
• The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life. Michael Schudson. Free Press, 1998. 390 pgs.
• The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century. Robert W. McChesney. Monthly Review Press, 2004. 367 pgs.
• The New Media Monopoly (rewritten seventh edition of The Media Monopoly) Ben H. Bagdikian. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. 299 pgs.

Magazines

• American Journalism Review
• Columbia Journalism Review
• Editor & Publisher
• Extra
• Quill

Resources for teachers and researchers

• Center for Communications and Community at UCLA (a resource for community-building research and tools)
• Center for Media Literacy
• Teacher Resources at "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer"

News watchers, national

• Accuracy in Media (AIM)
• Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME)
• American Journalism Review
• American Journalism Review's Newslink
• Columbia Journalism Review
• Committee of Concerned Journalists' Daily Briefing
• Cyberjournalist
• Editor & Publisher
• Extra (teen news from The News Hour with Jim Lehrer)
• Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
• Free Press (national media reform organization)
• Harvard's Nieman Reports Online
• Industry News (Associated Press)
• Jim Romenesko's media news blog at the Poynter Institute
• Mediabistro
• Media Channel (Danny Schecter's global media review)
• News Blues
• News Watch
• The Newspaper Guild (national union of journalists)
• Online Journalism Review (University of Sourthern California)
• Poynter Institute (studies journalism theory and practice)
• Project for Excellence in Journalism
• PBS Media Matters Online
• PBS Media Watch
• Quill Magazine online
• Reliable Sources (CNN)
• Salon Magazine media page
• Slate's Today's Papers
• Village Voice's Press Clips

Selected Bay Area news media

• Contra Costa Times (Knight Ridder)
• Daily Californian (U.C. Berkeley)
• Daily Journal San Mateo Co. (Bigfoot Media)
• Daily News chain (Knight Ridder)
• KGO Channel 7, San Francisco (ABC)
• KNTV Channel 11, San Jose (NBC)
• KPIX Channel 5, San Francisco (CBS)
• KRON Channel 4, San Francisco (independent)
• KTEH Channel 54, San Jose (public)
• KTVU Channel 2, Oakland (Fox)
• KQED radio & television (public)
• Metro San Jose (Metro Pubishing Inc.)
• Oakland Tribune (MediaNews Corp.)
• San Francisco Bay Guardian (independent)
• San Francisco Chronicle (Hearst)
• San Francisco Examiner (independent)
• SF Gate -- Web-only features from the Chronicle
• SF Weekly (New Times)
• San Jose Mercury News (Knight Ridder)
• Spartan Daily (San Jose State University)
• Stanford Daily (Stanford University)

Tools and tips

• How to Distinguish Between Socially Responsible and Junk Journalism
• Avoiding stereotypes when reporting on domestic/intimate partner violence
• Diversity Style Guide
• Reporting on and understanding polls and surveys

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