Media and Freedom of Expression

The organizations currently presented in this section were chosen for their mission of fostering positive, democratic change around the world.

Open Access Journals

Global Media Journal
http://lass.calumet.purdue.edu/cca/gmj/
Global Media Journal publishes works that assess existing media structures and practices. It has established African, Arabic, Australian, Brazilian, Canadian, Chinese, Indian, Mediterranean, Mexico, Pakistan, Persian, Polish and Turkish editions.

Media Tropes
http://www.mediatropes.com/index.php/Mediatropes
MediaTropes is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary eJournal devoted to the study of media and mediation.

Open Government: A Journal on Freedom of Information
http://www.opengovjournal.org/
To publish research and communications related to Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation from the perspective of academics, practioners and FOI users.

Organizations, Institutions and Networks

American Center for International Labor Solidarity (Solidarity Center)
http://www.solidaritycenter.org
The Solidarity Center is a non-profit AFL-CIO allied organization that assists workers around the world who are struggling to build democratic and independent trade unions.

Article 19
http://www.article19.org
Article 19 is an organization designed "to combat censorship by promoting freedom of expression and access to official information."

Committee to Protect Journalists
http://www.cpj.org
The Committee to Protect Journalists is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded to monitor abuses against the press and promote press freedom around the world.

Freedom to Write
http://www.pen.org/freedom/
The Freedom-to-Write Committee of PEN American Center works to protect freedom of written expression around the world, from defending writers and journalists who are imprisoned, threatened, or attacked in the course of doing their work, to protesting book-banning in the United States.

Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society
http://www.impacs.org
IMPACS works to strengthen communications between not-for-profit organizations, government and the media, both in Canada and internationally.

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
http://www.ifj.org
The International Federation of Journalists defends press freedom and social justice through strong, free and independent trade unions of journalists.

International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX)
http://www.ifex.org
IFEX is a global network of more than 60 organisations that monitors press freedom and free expression violations around the world.

International Journalists' Network (IJNet)
http://www.ijnet.org/
The Network is an on-line service for journalists, media managers, media assistance professionals, journalism trainers and educators and anyone else with an interest in the state of the media around the world.

International Press Institute
http://www.freemedia.at/
The International Press Institute is a global network of editors, media executives and
leading journalists from newspapers, magazines, radio, TV and news agencies in over 100 nations.

International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX)
www.irex.org/media/
http://www.irex.org/civilsociety/index.asp
IREX (the International Research & Exchanges Board) is a nonprofit organization specializing in higher education, independent media, Internet development, and civil society programs.

Internews
http://www.internews.org
Internews is an international non-profit organization that supports independent media in emerging democracies and uses the media as a tool to reduce conflict within and between countries.

Panos London
http://www.panos.org.uk/
Panos London stimulates informed and inclusive public debate around key development issues in order to foster sustainable development. They are working to promote an enabling media and communications environment worldwide.

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
http://www.rferl.org
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty a private, international communications service to Eastern Europe and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Middle East, funded by the US Congress.

Reporters Sans Frontieres
http://www.rsf.fr/
An international watchdog organization that monitors oppressive action taken against journalists around the world.

Witness
http://www.witness.org/
Witness strengthens local activists by giving them video cameras and field training. Today, Witness unleashes an arsenal of computers, imaging and editing software, satellite phones and email in the struggle for justice.

World Association of Newspapers
http://www.wan-press.org/
The World Association of Newspapers represents over 17,000 publications worldwide with one of its objectives being the defense and promotion of press freedom and the economic independence of newspapers as a requisite for that freedom.

World Press Freedom Committee
http://www.wpfc.org
The World Press Freedom Committee has developed several tools to resist media censorship including, monitoring and coordinating information about press censorship, giving grants to mount legal challenges to government efforts to censor, and writing a charter for press freedom.