The New Mexico Media Literacy Project is the biggest and best media literacy education organization. This site gives you detailed skills and strategies that will make you a literate, critical media viewer.

A media literacy resource produced by teenage girls, to help others like them combat the distorting messages about body image and eating in the media.

At the Center for Media Literacy's website, you can browse through a lot of media-related topics and get some good advice on how to become media literate. This is a wonderful site, and has numerous links and on site resources. Lots of quality content here, including some good interactive features. Some difficult material, but most of the content is valuable, interesting and simple.

Mediascope is another organization that gives research and info about media-related topics with the goal of making people more media-savvy. They are a general service company, and their website has a wide range of offerings. There is a lot of information here, and some of it can be a little overwhelming, but they provide you with an interesting look at a media company.

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a politically liberal watchdog.

This site reports the news that its organizers feel is under-reported by mainstream corporate media outlets

One of the best known "alternative news" sources; politically liberal.

This is a cool website with lots of media literacy information and links and resources. The site is well laid out, and is full of cool graphics and moving pieces. There is good information here, and although the issue of media literacy is somewhat of a difficult one, they lay out the details very simply and entertainingly. Good site.

National Institute on Media and the Family
606 24th Avenue South, Suite 606
Minneapolis, MN 55454
Toll Free 1-888-672-KIDS (672-5437)
The goal of the National Institute on Media and the Family (Institute) is to provide resources for educators, parents, community leaders, and others concerned about the ever increasing impact of media on children, families, and communities. They specialize in media education and media literacy issues.

Media Literacy Resource Guide
1-800-228-4630
Recently reprinted and now available in the U.S., the guide has provided the roadmap for the development of media literacy standards and curriculum throughout Canadian schools (grades 6-12). It includes invaluable orientation essays at the front followed by hundreds of teaching concepts, activities and approaches for teaching the following media genres: television, film, radio, popular music and rock video, photography, print, and cross-media studies (advertising, sexuality, violence, news).

Alliance for Media Literate America
1-888-775-AMLA (2652)
The aim is to stimulate growth in media literacy education in the United States by organizing and providing national leadership, advocacy, networking, and information exchange. In doing so, they hope to help all people to be able to critically analyze and create messages using the wide variety of technological tools now available in and out of school. This is done by bringing together a diverse alliance of individuals and organizations to create a national non-profit membership organization that will be a key force in bringing media literacy education to all 60 million students in the United States, their parents, their teachers, and others who care about youth.