Journalism and Communications: Accuracy & Fact Checking

This website features articles on the same topic from news sources from the left, right and center. Evaluation of political leaning is done through crowd sourcing.

Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.

Provides a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

This site from the Poynter Institute tracks accuracy, errors and the craft of verification.

NPR program that examines the role of media in the distribution of information and how "media sausage" is made.

Analysis of internet access, filtering and censorship, with profiles by region, country and types of media used.

Media Cloud is a project that seeks to track news content comprehensively – providing open, free, and flexible tools for quantitative analysis of media trends

A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, this website monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases.

The Tampa Bay Times's project to help promote truth in politics. Uses a "Truth-O-Meter" to rate the accuracy of claims made by politicians.

A blog from the Washington Post that promises the truth behind the rhetoric.