Communication and Media: Industry Reports & Associations

Gallup Poll has measured and tracked the public's attitudes concerning political, social, and economic issues, including sensitive or controversial subjects

Founded in 2004 by Two-Time Academy Award Winning Actor Geena Davis, the Institute is the only global research-based organization working collaboratively within the entertainment industry to create gender balance, foster inclusion and reduce negative stereotyping in family entertainment media.

The focus is an American non-profit foundation that provides grants for journalism, communities, and the arts to promote excellence in journalism and the success of the communities.

This database includes detailed data on trends in the news industry. Search by keyword, topic or click on the charts below to find data on audience, economics, social media, and reporting resources.

Website of the nonpartisan Pew Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, whose goal is to "understand the information revolution," and which "specialize[s] in using empirical methods to evaluate and study the performance of the press, particularly content analysis.

American Public Media is the largest station-based public radio organization in the U.S., combining multi-regional station operations, national content creation and distribution in one organization. With a portfolio that includes A Prairie Home Companion®, BBC World Service, Marketplace® and the leading classical music programming in the nation, APM is one of the largest producers of public radio programming in the world. More than 900 stations carry American Public Media’s 20-plus national programs. Its multi-regional station operations include 52 public radio stations and 43 translators in the Upper Midwest, California and Florida

The AP is one of the largest and most trusted sources of independent newsgathering, supplying a steady stream of news to its members, international subscribers and commercial customers. AP is neither privately owned nor government-funded; instead, as a not-for-profit news cooperative owned by its American newspaper and broadcast members, it can maintain its single-minded focus on newsgathering and its commitment to the highest standards of objective, accurate journalism.

The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is both the name of the independent federal agency that oversees all U.S. civilian international media and the name of the board that governs those broadcasts. The BBG’s mission is to inform, engage and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy.

Journalism Ethics for the Global Citizen is your source for tracking and analyzing ethical issues in your city or around the world. This site is the public face of the new Center for Journalism Ethics in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Journalism Ethics for the Global Citizen will keep you updated on ethical issues in the news, while providing informed analysis on issues, as well as book reviews and interviews with leading figures in journalism. You will access a host of resources, from background discussions on the nature and history of journalism ethics to codes of practice and links to ethics experts

FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. As an anti-censorship organization, we expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled

The Federal Communications Commission regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. An independent U.S. government agency overseen by Congress, the commission is the United States' primary authority for communications law, regulation and technological innovation.

Based at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, the Journalist’s Resource project examines news topics through a research lens. We surface scholarly materials that may be relevant to media practitioners, bloggers, educators, students and general readers. Our philosophy is that peer-reviewed research studies can, at the very least, help anchor journalists as they navigate difficult terrain and competing claims.

About The Blog
“Media & Communications Policy” is a blog that strives to offer informed and thoughtful commentary on a variety of First Amendment and communications policy issues.

The National Association of Broadcasters is the voice for the nation's radio and television broadcasters. As the premier trade association for broadcasters, NAB advances the interests of our members in federal government, industry and public affairs; improves the quality and profitability of broadcasting; encourages content and technology innovation; and spotlights the important and unique ways stations serve their communities.

NCTA is the principal trade association for the U.S. cable industry, representing cable operators serving more than 90 percent of the nation's cable television households and more than 200 cable program networks. The cable industry is the nation's largest broadband provider of high-speed Internet access, serving more than 51 million customers, after investing $200 billion to build two-way interactive networks with fiber optic technology. Cable companies also provide state-of-the-art digital telephone service to more than 27 million American consumers.

NCA is the largest national organization dedicated to communication. Researchers, educators, and professionals, work to understand and better all forms of human communication.
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NCA sponsors 10 journals - see the journals page for links to each one and how to access all via the library's databases.

NTIA is the Executive Branch agency that is principally responsible for advising the President on telecommunications and information policy issues. NTIA’s programs and policy making focus largely on expanding broadband Internet access and adoption in America, expanding the use of spectrum by all users, and ensuring that the Internet remains an engine for continued innovation and economic growth.

The News/Media Alliance is a nonprofit organization headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area. For the last 100 years, the organization has grown through the combining of a range of news and media publishing associations, most recently including a merger with MPA-The Association of Magazine Media in 2022. Their work focuses on the key challenges and opportunities of today’s media environment: Freedom of the press, public policy and legal matters, advertising growth, new revenue streams and audience development across all platforms.

Site maintained by Abe Rosenberg who has been a television newswriter since 1982. From the start, friends would tease me about those funny phrases they’d hear on the news… “Details Are Sketchy”… “Firestorm Of Controversy”…. “Every Mother’s Worst Nightmare”… stuff no normal person would ever use in normal conversation. In 1996 I collected a bunch of those terms for an article in Communicator, the monthly magazine of the Radio and Television News Directors Association. Seminars led to a weekly article which led to this website. The goals were to help anyone who writes news for broadcast, and to improve the writing quality in newsrooms everywhere.

The Journalism project of the Pew Research Center publishes research on who is reporting the news and what new players are emerging focusing on media and the news.

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Their mission is to expose abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust by government, business, and other institutions, using the moral force of investigative journalism to spur reform through the sustained spotlighting of wrongdoing.

The Society of Professional Journalists is the nation’s most broad-based journalism organization, dedicated to encouraging the free practice of journalism and stimulating high standards of ethical behavior. Founded in 1909 as Sigma Delta Chi, SPJ promotes the free flow of information vital to a well-informed citizenry through the daily work of its nearly 10,000 members; works to inspire and educate current and future journalists through professional development; and protects First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and press through its advocacy efforts.

The State of the News Media 2014 is the eleventh edition of an annual report by the Pew Research Center’s Journalism Project examining the landscape of American journalism. This year’s study includes special reports about the revenue picture for news, the growth in digital reporting, the role of acquisitions and content sharing in local news and developments around digital video.