Newspapers & Other News Media

Useful for finding any alt media, not just on microfilm!
1969-present. This is the subject index to alternative media. Extremely helpful if you are using the Underground newspaper collection on microfilm.

Large collection of underground, alternative, radical newspapers on microfilm. Mostly 1970s-1980s.

This listing of contents provides a title list of each newspaper and a listing by geography (city, state) for the Underground newspaper collection.

The Alternative Press Center (APC) is a non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to the alternative press and publisher of the Alternative Press Index. See their Directory of Periodicals -- a goldmine of links to scores of alternative journal websites, many of which contain full-text archives. Browse directory by alphabetical title list or by "all categories" (e.g. Disability Rights, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Multinational Corporations).

AlterNet is an award-winning news magazine and online community that creates original journalism and amplifies the best of hundreds of other independent media sources. AlterNet’s aim is to inspire action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, health care issues, and more.

Sponsored by the the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), an independent research and media organization based in Montreal. Coverage, contributed by writers from all over the world, includes a wide range of global issues, e.g. poverty, militarization, justice, civil rights and the environment. Articles from the 2000s to present. Contributors include journalists and academics, as well as some former public officials.

"In These Times, an independent, nonprofit magazine, is dedicated to advancing democracy and economic justice, informing movements for a more humane world, and providing an accessible forum for debate about the policies that shape our future."

".. founded in 1999 by anarcho-capitalists Lew Rockwell and Burt Blumert to help carry on the anti-war, anti-state, pro-market work of Murray N. Rothbard. Archives back to 1990s. See LRC list of writers, with articles linked to author name.

"The News that didn't make the news". Project Censored educates students and the public about the importance of a truly free press for democratic self-government. Scroll to bottom of "About our Work" for top stories going back to 1998 and links to other "Independent News Sources".

"Tom Engelhardt launched Tomdispatch in November 2001 as an e-mail publication offering commentary and collected articles from the world press. In December 2002, it gained its name, became a project of The Nation Institute, and went online as "a regular antidote to the mainstream media." Archives date back to 2002. Read about this publication's writers.

Deep Dish TV is an alternative news network that produces and distributes a "series that challenge the suppression of awareness, the corruption of language, and the perversion of logic that characterizes so much of corporate media."

Free Speech TV is a national, independent news network committed to advancing progressive social change. Daily programs include Democracy Now!, The Thom Hartmann Program and Uprising with Sonali.

"Link TV broadcasts programs that engage, educate and activate viewers to become involved in the world. These programs provide a unique perspective on international news, current events, and diverse cultures, presenting issues not often covered in the US media."

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Excellent list of alt news magazines. Discover your title on this list, then check Virgo to see if we have it.