Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.
Democracy Now! is an hour-long American TV, radio and internet news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman, who also acts as the show's executive producer, and Juan González. The show, which airs live each weekday at 8 a.m. Eastern Time, is broadcast on the internet and by over 1,400 radio and television stations worldwide.
The Daily Southtown is a newspaper of the Chicago, Illinois, United States metropolitan area that covers the south suburbs and the South Side neighborhoods of the city – a wide region known as the Chicago Southland. Its popular slogan is "People Up North Just Don't Get It". It is published by the Chicago Tribune Media Group.
Nick Penniman is an American nonprofit executive and journalist who serves as the co-founder and CEO of Issue One, an American nonprofit organization whose mission is to strengthen American democracy and government ethics.
Salim Muwakkil is an American journalist and political commentator, based in Chicago. He is a senior editor at In These Times magazine and an op-ed columnist for the Chicago Tribune.
Media Alliance is an American media resource and advocacy center for media workers, non-profit organizations, and social justice activists. Through policy work and grassroots organizing, Media Alliance aims to ensure the unfettered flow of information by keeping media accessible, accountable, diverse and free from government control and corporate dominance. Media Alliance is a 501(c)(3) public charity, NTEE Code: A30—Media, Communications Organizations.
Phil Ponce is an American journalist and television presenter. Ponce is notable as a Chicago television journalist who hosts Chicago Tonight, a nightly television magazine of news and culture on WTTW 11.
Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) is Canada's largest international media development organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. JHR was founded in 2002 by Benjamin Peterson and Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque in 2002. JHR's mission is to inspire and mobilize media to cover human rights stories in ways that help communities help themselves. The organization's vision is for everybody in the world to access their human rights.
Political journalism is a broad branch of journalism that includes coverage of all aspects of politics and political science, although the term usually refers specifically to coverage of civil governments and political power.
New America Media (NAM) was a multimedia ethnic news agency and a coalition of ethnic media. Founded in 1996 by the nonprofit Pacific News Service, NAM was headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C.
Beauty B. Turner was an American housing activist and journalist from Chicago, Illinois. At the time of her death, Turner was compared to the civil rights leader Ida B. Wells.
Helene D. Gayle, is an American doctor who is the CEO of The Chicago Community Trust, one of the nation's leading community foundations. For over 100 years, The Chicago Community Trust has mobilized people, ideas, organizations and resources to advance equity, opportunity and prosperity for all.
Media development involves capacity building for institutions or individuals related to freedom of expression, pluralism and diversity of media, as well as transparency of media ownership. Media development plays a role in democracy and effective democratic discourse through supporting free and independent media.
The Investigative Reporting Workshop is a nonprofit, investigative news organization focusing on significant issues of public concern.
Non-profit journalism is the practice of journalism as a non-profit organization instead of a for-profit business. NPJ groups are able to operate and serve the public good without the concern of debt, dividends and the need to make a profit. Just like all non-profit organizations, NPJ outfits depend on private donations and or foundation grants to pay for operational expenses.
The New Press is an independent non-profit public-interest book publisher established in 1992 by André Schiffrin and Diane Wachtell, publishing many books with a left-wing political viewpoint.
Lourdes Duarte is an American television journalist for WGN-TV, where she is an investigative reporter and co-host of the WGN News Evening News at 4pm.
Mississippi Today is the only fully-staffed, member-supported, digital-first, nonprofit newsroom serving Mississippi and meeting the information needs of communities across the state. Mississippi Today aims to be the authoritative voice on politics and policy in Mississippi, producing robust coverage of elected officials, government offices and legislative action. The team produces a mix of daily and enterprise reporting, with award-winning investigations on justice, race and equity. Education coverage is essential to the newsroom and includes K-12, as well as a higher education beat. Mississippi Today continues to expand coverage on issues facing women and girls, Mississippians living in poverty and the ongoing environmental and economic challenges in the region.
Chalkbeat is a non-profit news organization that covers education in several American communities. Its mission is to "inform the decisions and actions that lead to better outcomes for children and families by providing deep, local coverage of education policy and practice." It aims to cover "the effort to improve schools for all children, especially those who have historically lacked access to a quality education". Its areas of focus include under-reported stories, education policy, equity, trends, and local reporting.
Frances Kai-Hwa Wang is an American writer and educator based in Michigan and Hawai‘i.
