 [From their website] AlterNet's Mission 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. Since its inception in
1998, AlterNet.org has grown dramatically to keep pace with the public
demand for independent news. We provide free online content to millions
of readers, serving as a reliable filter, keeping our vast audience
well-informed and engaged, helping them to navigate a culture of
information overload and providing an alternative to the commercial
media onslaught. Our aim is to stimulate, inform, and instigate.
News.
[From their website] Quality. Independence. Impact.
The
Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in
Washington, DC. Our mission is to conduct high-quality, independent
research and, based on that research, to provide innovative, practical
recommendations that advance three broad goals:
Strengthen American democracy;
Foster the economic and social welfare, security and opportunity of all Americans; and
Secure a more open, safe, prosperous and cooperative international system.
Brookings is proud to be consistently ranked as the most influential, most quoted and most trusted think tank.
[From their website] The world’s petition platform. What will you change?
[From their website] The
Daily Dish was founded in the summer of 2000 by Andrew Sullivan as one
of the very first political blogs. Andrew wrote the blog alone for the
first six years, for no pay, apart from two pledge drives. In 2006 he
took the blog to Time.com and then to The Atlantic.com, where he was
able to employ interns for the first time, to handle the ever-expanding
web of content.
In 2011, he and three former interns, Zoe Pollock, Patrick Appel
and Chris Bodenner, left the Atlantic for the Daily Beast, where the
Dish lost its “Daily” qualifier and became a 24/7 news and opinion site
for aggregation of web content, curation of reader input and Andrew’s
own ruminations and reading.
In February 2013, under the newly formed Dish Publishing LLC, the
Dish returned to independence from bigger media platforms and became one
of the first blogs to ask readers alone to support its work. It has a
readership of around 1.2 million unique visitors with an average of
around 8 million pageviews a month from around the world. The Dish
covers anything Andrew, the Dish team or the Dish readership finds
interesting – from politics to religion and pop culture and art and film
and poetry and philosophy and web humor.
[From their website] “A pillar of leftist intellectual provocation” – New York Times
Dissent is a quarterly magazine of politics and ideas.
Establishing itself as one of America’s leading intellectual journals in
1954, it has since published articles by Hannah Arendt, Norman Mailer,
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Ellen Willis, Richard Wright, George Packer, and
many others.
A rare internationalism has always been central to
Dissent’s mission. The magazine published dissident work from the
Eastern Bloc and now reports on politics and social movements with a
recent focus on the Middle East and China.
New York Times Politics
[From their website] A community of people who give a damn.
[From their website] NUMBERS, FACTS AND TRENDS SHAPING YOUR WORLD
[From their website] We
created POLITICO with a simple promise: to prove there's a robust and
profitable future for tough, fair and fun coverage of politics and
government. To do this, we cling to a simple principle: always hire the
most talented editors, reporters and newsroom staff and then set them
loose on many platforms for modern media consumption: print, online,
mobile, video and events.
[From their website] Quartz
is a digitally native news outlet, born in 2012, for business people in
the new global economy. We publish bracingly creative and intelligent
journalism with a broad worldview, built primarily for the devices
closest at hand: tablets and mobile phones.
Like Wired in the 1990s and The Economist in the 1840s, Quartz
embodies the era in which it is being created. The financial crisis that
recently engulfed much of the world wasn’t just a cyclical decline or a
correction or even a bubble bursting. It was a breaking point. And its
shockwaves exposed a fundamentally changed economic order with new
leaders and ways of doing business.
Our coverage of this new global economy is rooted in a set of
defining obsessions: core topics and knotty questions of seismic
importance to business professionals. These are the issues that energize
our newsroom, and we invite you to obsess about them along with us. You
can always reach us by emailing hi@qz.com.
[From their website] Think
Progress is a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
The Center for American Progress Action Fund is a nonpartisan
organization.
ThinkProgress was voted “Best Liberal Blog” in the 2006
Weblog Awards and chosen as an Official Honoree in the 2009 and 2012
Webby awards. It was also named best blog of 2008 by The Sidney Hillman
Foundation, receiving an award for journalism excellence. In 2009,
ThinkProgress was named a “Gold Award Winner” by the International
Academy of Visual Arts.
[From their website] ProPublica
is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative
journalism in the public interest. Our work focuses exclusively on truly
important stories, stories with “moral force.” We do this by producing
journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong
and on the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed
in them.
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