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The portal of breaking news, headlines, commentary, and announcements for progressives across America |
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The online branch of Z Magazine, with analysis and commentary from across the world on events and trends |
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One of the few professional, independent, noncommercial hard news sources in the United States |
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The Web site of the venerable daily TV and radio news show, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez |
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News Web site, noted for their pioneering genre of “newsvideos,” mini-documentaries in music video format of critical topics |
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General information source with coverage of the environment, civil liberties, the media, film, politics, the war on drugs, and the Middle East |
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The portal of the worldwide Independent Media Center ("Indymedia") movement, providing grassroots coverage of popular activist struggles and movements |
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The Chicago affiliate of the Indymedia, with an active Web site, and groups working in radio, video, and photography |
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Daily-updated media and politics blog that focuses on work of major news organizations, as well as to other critical, independent voices published on the Internet |
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This is the online version of America’s “newspaper of record” |
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The online version of the world's premiere daily business newspaper, worth reading because of its open style of journalism |
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Bob Harris is a political analyst, writer, and stand-up comic; his Web site has very quickly become a source of quality (and funny) web commentary |
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News and comment, focusing on computers and the internet, politics, science, games, and civil liberties |
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This Web site out of New Zealand highlights news, features, analysis, and opinion, on issues related to science and technology |
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This sister site of SciTechDaily highlights news, features, analysis, and opinions on issues related to arts and the humanities |
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ArtsJournal describes itself as “a weekday digest of some of the best arts and cultural journalism in the English-speaking world” |
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Premiere open free encyclopedia, with regular frequent updates (including impressive summaries of ongoing news coverage) and analogues in nearly 200 languages |
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Radio talk show out of WNUR hosted by Chuck Mertz, with lots of links and lots of audio interviews |
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Free Press is a non-partisan national organization with an excellent and diverse news feed of stories about media issues. |
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A two-time winner of the Koufax Award for best lefty blog, this leading political-discussion blog is updated frequently. |
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The Web site of the venerable public broadcaster; a staggering amount of information of a wide swath of political persuasions, with versions in 43 languages |
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A massive portal of resources from worldwide human rights organizations, which aggregates the resources of some 1,600 human rights and antipoverty groups |
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Wondering what’s going on in Chicago and the suburbs? Here is an excellent resource for news and information of events and happenings in town. |
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Media Channel “is a media issues supersite, featuring criticism, breaking news, and investigative reporting from hundreds of organizations worldwide.” |
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An eclectic collection of news and links from longtime political activist Sam Smith |
