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University Channel
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.)

An online outlet created at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson Center to distribute speeches, articles, lectures, panels and events from more than 40 universities, including Duke, Penn and Northwestern. Content is not usually available outside academe. It is streamed, downloadable to MP3 players, or available as transcripts. Web site registers more than 1 million hits a month and 2,000 to 8,000 daily downloads.


Annenberg Political FactCheck
Annenberg Public Policy Center (Washington, D.C.)

FactCheck.org provides a verification service to the public, truthsquading claims made as fact by political candidates. It has more than 3.6 million unique visitors per year. It is now turning its spotlight on judicial campaigns.


NewsTrust.net
NewsTrust (Mill Valley, Calif.)

A nonprofit social news network providing Web review tools that allow citizens to make informed decisions using a quality news filter and media literacy tools. Users rate news articles by filling out an online form that prompts them to answer questions about how interesting, trustworthy, fair, balanced, important and accurate the story is.


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