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Links
to Media Resources
from the Brooklyn Council of Churches
Religious Media Resources
Ecumenical
News International
Faith
& Values Network
Independent
Catholic News
Religion
News Service
Zenit (Catholic news agency)
Queens Area Media
Queens
Courier One of the best weekly newspapers focused on Queens is the Queens
Courier. Its local editions provide excellent coverage of the borough's communities.
The paper's website reprints many of the articles, but unfortunately, plays second
fiddle to the print edition.
The
Queens Tribune The Queens Tribune is a local Queens weekly newspaper.
The site is a good source of information on local events, and includes a "Best
of Queens" directory.
NY1
News NY1 News is cable news station that focuses on New York City. NY1's
website has features on news as well as resources on the city, including a section
devoted to the borough of Queens.
Times-Ledger Keep up on local community news through the Times-Ledger. This company runs
a chain of 13 weekly newspapers for communities in Queens, including Astoria,
Bayside, Flushing, Fresh Meadows, Little Neck, Jamaica, Whitestone, Laurelton,
Queens Village, Richmond Hill, Forest Hills, Howard Beach, Ridgewood, and Glen
Oaks.
Times
Newsweekly Serving the Greater Ridgewood area, this was formerly the
Ridgewood Times.
Queens
Public Television Queens Public Television has its own website with information
about the four public access channels broadcast from Flushing to cable TV systems
across Queens.
The
Wave Serving the Rockaways and southwestern Queens.
The
Western Queens Gazette A newspaper that focuses its coverage on Western
Queens.
Ethnic Media serving New York Metro Area
The
Irish Echo Published in NYC, the Echo reports on the lives and concerns
of Irish immigrants in the States as well as on news from the Emerald Isle. It's
a common sight in the Irish pubs of Sunnyside and Woodside, home to many of the
new immigrants.
India
Tribune India Tribune is an English-language weekly newspaper that serves
Asian Indians in the USA. In addition to the New York edition, there are ones
for Chicago and Atlanta.
Greek
News: Greek-American Newspaper in Astoria Greek News is a weekly newspaper
published in Astoria that covers Greece and Greek-Americans. Its website posts
articles daily.
News
India-Times Published in New York, News India-Times is a weekly newspaper
whose audience is the Indian immigrant community in North America.
Independent
Press NY The website of Independent Press New York highlights the best
articles from the city's community and ethnic publications, and includes translations
to English from Spanish, Polish, Chinese, and other languages. It's boom time
for ethnic publications in NYC; just look around the next time you're on the subway
at what people are reading.
El
Diario - La Prensa El Diario is a popular daily Spanish-language newspaper
for New York City.
ITV
- South Asian Cable TV Station ITV is a cable TV channel targeted to South
Asians and Indo-Caribbeans in Queens and Brooklyn. Along with ITV Gold (its premium,
subscriber version), ITV broadcasts Bollywood films and videos along with Caribbean
videos and news from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Guyana, and Trinidad as well
as from the NYC immigrant community.
Metro New York
Print Media
Anton
Community Newspapers, Mineola
Crain's
New York Business
Garden
City News
Gotham
Gazette
The
Journal News, White Plains
New
York Arts
New
York Daily News
New
York Magazine
New
York Post
New
York Times
New
York Observer
New
York Sun
Newsday,
Melville
Staten
Island Advance, Staten Island
The
Villager
Village
Voice
Wall
Street Journal
Metro New York Broadcast Media -
Television
WLNY,
Melville
FOXNews,
New York
WABC,
New York
WCBS,
New York
WNBC,
New York
WNYE,
New York
WPIX,
New York
WLIW,
Plainview
Metro New York Broadcast Media - Radio
WBAB - 102.3 FM (Long Island) - Rock
WBZO - 103.1 FM (Long Island) - Classic Rock
WVOX - 1460 AM (New Rochelle) - Talk Radio
WABC - 770 AM (New York) - News/Talk
WBLS - 107.5 FM (New York) - New Urban
WFAN - 660 AM (New York) - Sports
WKTU - 103.5 FM (New York) - Dance/Rhythemic
WLIB - 1190 AM (New York) - New Caribbean/African
WPLJ - 95.5 FM (New York) - Adult Top 40
WQXR - 96.3 FM (New York) - New Classical
WSIA - 88.9 FM (New York) - Alternative
GRIT (New York) - Talk/Internet
Alternative Media
Some of these sites have an obvious political slant – some are ultra-left
and others are of the radical right. They do, however, cover news and issues ignored
by mainstream media and are therefore helpful regardless of your score on political
litmus tests.
Gateways to news and views on a
world of issues and events.
• AlterNet
• Common Dreams NewsCenter
• Gemini News Service
• globalinfo.org
• IGC
Internet
• The News
Insider
• oneworld.net
• Shoot
the Messenger
• TomPaine.com
• Utne Web Watch Daily
• ZNet
Special Interest – Sources for specific topics and themes.
• Alertnet (humanitarian issues)
• allAfrica.com
• Amnesty International (human rights)
• Antiwar.com (Libertarian)
• ColombiaTimes.com
• Compass Direct (religious
persecution)
• Environmental
News Network
• FAIR (media criticism)
• Foreign
Policy In Focus
• Grist
Magazine (environmental news and humor)
• Human
Rights Watch
• Independent
Media Center (globalization)
• mediachannel.org (media criticism)
• Public
Education Network (domestic and global inequities)
• Ship
of Fools (humor)
• U.S.
Committee for Refugees
• Wired
News
Multimedia – Pictures, Sound, etc.
• Pacifica Radio
• Web Active
• Radio
for Peace International
• Common
Ground Radio
A Selection of Magazines
• The
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• Christianity
Today
• Columbia Journalism
Review
• First Things
• In These Times
• Maryknoll
Office for Global Concerns - NewsNotes
• Mother
Jones
• Ms. Magazine
• Multinational
Monitor
• The Nation
• National Catholic
Reporter
• The
New Republic
• The
Progressive
• Social
Policy
• The
Weekly Standard
• The
Witness
• World
• World Press Review
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