The Center for Media and Democracy

The Center for Media and Democracy is a nonprofit organization that works to strengthen democracy by promoting media that are "of, by and for the people" - genuinely informative and broadly participatory - and by removing the barriers and distortions of the modern information environment that stem from government- or corporate-dominated, hierarchical media.

The Center for Media and Democracy serves social change activists, journalists, researchers, policymakers and the public at large by:

• Investigating and reporting on behind-the-scenes public relations campaigns by corporations, industries, governments and other powerful institutions,

• Informing and assisting grassroots citizen activism that promotes public health, economic justice, ecological sustainability and human rights,

• Promoting media literacy to help the public recognize the forces shaping the information they receive about issues that affect their lives,

• Sponsoring "open content" media that enable citizens from all walks of life to "be the media" and to participate in creating media content.

For more information, please visit their web site at: http://www.prwatch.org