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Alternative Press
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Alternative Press Center 
 Site of a "non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to and increasing public awareness of the alternative press." Includes a directory of radical and alternative publications, with subscription information; and links to hundreds of sites providing "Alternative Viewpoints on the Internet." (Note: the Center also publishes the Alternative Press Index). http://www.altpress.org/ Topics: News, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Mar 29, 2005 Alternative Resources on the U.S. "War Against Terrorism"
This page links to alternative news and commentary, petitions, and information on anti-war activities throughout the United States. Provided by the International Responsibilities Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Roundtable of the American Library Association. http://www.pitt.edu/~ttwiss/irtf/Alternative.html Topics: News, September 11 & Beyond, Terrorism Last updated Aug 17, 2005 Nonprofit Journalism: Removing the Pressure of the Bottom Line
2005 article about the operation of nonprofit news media, such as well-known National Public Radio (NPR) and the Christian Science Monitor and the lesser-known Gotham Gazette. Includes discussion of the operation of foreign not-for-profit journalism such as the BBC and The Guardian (which is owned by a nonprofit trust), public television in the U.S., and the effect of removing pressure from the bottom line. From the Carnegie Reporter. http://www.carnegie.org/reporter/11/nonprofjourn/index.html Topics: News Last updated Jan 7, 2009 The Progressive Review Index
Since 1968, activist and social critic Sam Smith has been offering this alternative to the established press. Included are essays about Green Party, third party, and other progressive movements; links to major and alternative media; watchdogs on civil rights and drug laws; and PR spins and government propaganda. The site also sorts free presses geographically and offers links to webzines and to a variety of online resources about government, law, and society. http://www.prorev.com/ Topics: Communications, Magazines, News, Nonfiction by Genre, Politics by Place Last updated Aug 10, 2009 Utne Daily
Progressive discussions and reviews of articles reprinted from hundreds of "magazines, newsletters, journals, weeklies, zines, and other lively dispatches from the cultural front." From Utne Reader. http://www.utne.com/daily.aspx Topics: Magazines, News, Political Parties & Theories, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Sep 22, 2009 Voices From the Underground: Radical Protest and Underground Press in the "Sixties": An Exhibition
This online exhibit "displays select samples of alternative publications in the Alternative Press Collection" of the University of Connecticut Libraries. It includes an overview of underground newspapers from the 1960s and a gallery of covers of publications such as the Berkeley Barb and the East Village Other. From reference librarian Ellen Embardo. http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/exhibits/voices/ Topics: News, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Jan 19, 2009 |
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