1. California Newsreel
149 9th Street, Suite 420
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: 415-621-6196
FAX: 415-621-6522
Email: LA@newsreel.org
http://www.newsreel.org
Contact: Larry Adelman, Co-founder
California Newsreel - is the country's oldest, non-profit, documentary production and distribution center. Newsreel's 'Mediated Mind' imprint is an important source of award-winning videos on our culture of consumption.
2. Center for Media Literacy
4727 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 403
Los Angeles, CA 90010
Phone: 213-931-4177
FAX: 213-931-4474
Email: cml@medialit.org
http://www.medialit.org/
Contact: Elizabeth Thoman, Founder The Center for Media Literacy is dedicated to a new vision of literacy for the 21st Century: the ability to communicate competently in all media forms, print and electronic, as well as to access, understand, analyze and evaluate the powerful images, words and sounds that make up our contemporary mass media culture.
3. Citizens for Media Literacy
34 Wall Street, Suite 407
Asheville, NC 28801
Phone: 704-255-0182
FAX: 704-254-2286
Email: cml@unca.edu
Contact: Wally Bowen, Director
In 1991, former UNC Asheville journalist Wally Bowen founded Citizens for Media Literacy, a grass roots teaching and advocacy project. Citizens for Media Literacy serves as a clearinghouse of information and curriculum materials as well as offering workshops and symposia on media literacy topics for teachers and parents.
4. FAIR
130 W. 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212-633-6700
FAX: 212-727-7668
Email: fair@fair.org
http://www.fair.org/
Contact: Jeff Cohen, Director
FAIR is the national media watch organization that offers well-documented criticism in an effort to correct media bias. In particular, FAIR scrutinizes media practices that slight public interest and minority viewpoints. FAIR seeks to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater plurality and diversity in the press.
5. Media Education Foundation
26 Center St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Phone: 413-586-4170
FAX: 413-586-8398
Email: mediaed@mediaed.org
http://www.mediaed.org/
Contact: Sut Jhally, Founder
The Media Education Foundation is a non-profit educational organization devoted to media research and the production of resources to aid educators and others in fostering analytical media literacy. MEF produces and distributes a number of educational videos on the subject of advertising, including Advertising and the End of the World, Pack of Lies, and Killing Us Softly III.
6. New Mexico Media Literacy Project
6400 Wyoming Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109
Phone: 505/828-3264
FAX: 505/828-3320
Email: mccannon@merlin.aa.edu
http://www.nmmlp.org/
Contact: Bob McCannon, Director
The goal of New Media Literacy Project is to make New Mexico the most media literate state in the U.S. Toward that end, NMLP has trained over 300 "catalysts" in intensive seminars. NMLP has also trained over 30,000 others in workshops varying from two hours to two days. NMLP regularly posts news, information and free materials for teachers, students, parents and others on its website.