“Media Alliance is a 25-year-old nonprofit training and resource center for media workers, community organizations, and political activists. Our mission is excellence, ethics, diversity, and accountability in all aspects of the media in the interests of peace, justice, and social responsibility. MA offers a wide variety of services and support to its 3,000 members and groups affiliates, as well as to the general public. We publish MediaFile, the Bay Area’s media review, and People Behind the News, a comprehensive guide to media outlets and journalists throughout the Bay Area; and we train hundreds of community organizations and activists every year in media and computer skills and media advocacy techniques. We have also conducted analyses of media coverage of welfare legislation, affirmative action, and bilingual education and published the results of our analyses.”

Recent articles in MediaFile include:

• Terry Messman: Justice Journalism: journalist as agent of social change, from William Lloyd Garrison to Indymedia.
  

• Andrea Buffa: Watt’s Up? Behind the media’s coverage of the energy crisis.
  

• Jeremy Rifkin: Media Giants Lobby to Privatize Broadcast Spectrum

Great list of links to media-related resources online.

If their work is appealing to you, they’re appealing to you. “Though it is on the opposite coast from you, I thought you might be interested. Heard about Media Alliance via an SFGate article and was impressed with their history, etc. Unfortunately, they are having funding issues and I was dismayed to think another voice of dissent might be silenced,” writes an FmH reader.