Action for Media Education promotes and advocates for media literacy education, with special outreach to parents, teachers, and those who work with children.
Australian Media Literacy Alliance
The Australian Media Literacy Alliance is an unincorporated group of seven organizations whose objectives in the area of media literacy are closely aligned. They provide insight into content creation, information provision, education and media and information usage.
The Center for Media Literacy (CML) is an educational organization that provides leadership, public education, professional development and evidence-based educational resources nationally and internationally.
Critical Media Project (CMP) is a free media literacy web resource for educators and students (ages 8-21) that enhances young people’s critical thinking and empathy, and builds on their capacities to advocate for change around questions of identity.
European Federation of Journalists
With headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) is the largest organization of journalists in Europe, representing over 320,000 journalists in 72 journalists’ organizations across 45 countries. The Austrian and German press councils released a useful Media Literacy Toolkit for teachers and students which consists of six case studies and role play exercises identified by European Press Councils from Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Finland and Germany.
Find articles on Media Literacy and resources for teaching Media Literacy.
Project Look Sharp- Ithaca College
A nonprofit outreach program of Ithaca College whose mission is to help K-16 educators enhance students’ critical thinking, metacognition, and civic engagement through media literacy materials and professional development.
Agence France Presse is a global news agency that specializes in debunking misleading news content from Africa, Asia -Pacific, Europe, Latin America, North America and the Middle East. Content is available in various languages.
All sides provides information on media bias and misinformation by providing perspectives form the Left, Center and Right.
American Library Association: Information Literacy
Resources for librarians to use to equip students and the general public to identify reliable sources of news and other information.
Bellingcat is an investigative journalism website that specializes in fact-checking and open-source intelligence.
Our mission is to resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.
Center for Media Engagement (UT Austin)
The Center for Media Engagement envisions a vibrant American news media that more effectively empowers the public to understand, appreciate, and participate in the democratic exchange of ideas.
Annenberg Political fact check site. Use to discern the truth behind all kinds of political, scientific and public policy claims.
FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. They 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, they expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled. As a progressive group, FAIR believes that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of information.
Nonprofit resource for verifying news sources from social media by journalism experts and a coalition of news organizations. Includes case studies.
International Fact Checking Network
From Poynter (a journalism organization).
Detects and debunks trending fake news and hoaxes on known fake news sites and networks, prank generators and satirical websites.
Resource for the intersection of politics and the media by reporter Dan Abrams.
"Our mission at MediaWise is to empower people of all ages to be more critical consumers of content online."
National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE)
NAMLE’s mission is to be the leading voice, convener and resource to foster critical thinking and effective communication for empowered media participation.
The News Literacy Project (PDF) is a national education nonprofit offering nonpartisan, independent programs that teach students how to know what to believe in the digital age.
WNYC’s weekly investigation into how the media shapes our worldview.
The Oxford Martin Programme on misinformation, science, and media
Our aim is to combine social science and computer science to address the damaging impact of computational propaganda and other forms of digitally‐enabled misinformation campaigns on scientific innovation, policy making, and public life.
A project of the St. Petersburg Times, PolitiFact is a website that examines truth in politics.
' The definitive internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors and misinformation.' (Snopes website)
Technology & Social Change Project
"Led by Dr. Joan Donovan (@BostonJoan), The Technology and Social Change Project (TaSC) explores media manipulation as a means to control public conversation, derail democracy, and disrupt society."
The Trusted Journalism Partnership is a nonpartisan media and academic coalition that came together to fight disinformation for the 2020 elections.
Truth in Advertising, Inc. (TINA.org) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Madison, CT, whose mission is to be the go-to online resource dedicated to empowering consumers to protect themselves and one another against false advertising and deceptive marketing. We aim to achieve our mission through investigative journalism, education, advocacy, and the promotion of truth in advertising
Debunks propaganda, misinformation and disinformation on Social Media