Allgemeine Ressourcen zum Thema Presse in den USA

• The State of the News Media from Journalism.org. Project for Excellence in Journalism: Understanding News in the Information Age.

• State of the News Media 2007
• State of the News Media 2006
• State of the News Media 2005
• State of the News Media 2004

• FAIR is a national media watch group. It has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. We work 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. As an anti-censorship organization, we expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled.

• Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. Launched in May 2004, Media Matters for America put in place, for the first time, the means to systematically monitor a cross section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media outlets for conservative misinformation — news or commentary that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda — every day, in real time.

• SourceWatch is a collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy to produce a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. SourceWatch's primary focus is on documenting public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests. Over time, SourceWatch has broadened to include others involved in public debates including media outlets, journalists and government agencies.

• The Committee of Concerned Journalists is a consortium of journalists, publishers, owners and academics worried about the future of the profession.

• The Project for Excellence in Journalism is a research organization that specializes in using empirical methods to evaluate and study the performance of the press. It is non partisan, non ideological and non political.

• Columbia Journalism Review produced by Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. "America's Premier Media Monitor"

• Journalism Tools from Columbia Journalism Review

• Editor&Publisher is America's oldest journal covering the newspaper industry and it is the authoritative journal covering all aspects of the North American newspaper industry, including business, newsroom, advertising, circulation, marketing, technology, online and syndicates.

• US newspaper indexes (Library of Congress)

• U.S. News Archives on the Web

• Researching Historic American Newspapers

• International News Archives on the Web (Special Libraries Association)