The American Prospect
The American Prospect is an authoritative magazine of liberal ideas, committed to a just society, an enriched democracy and effective liberal politics. Its mission is to rise to the momentous occasion that confronts all Americans who seek a just society built on our greatest traditions.
2001 ($10,000)

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
FAIR researches and documents media bias and censorship and promotes independent, critical journalism. FAIR increases public awareness of the challenges posed for journalism by narrow media ownership and tracks media under-representation of women, people of color, working people and other public interest constituencies. FAIR also works directly with journalists in an effort to broaden and deepen coverage.
2004 ($10,000)

TomPaine.com (The Florence Fund)
John Moyers founded TomPaine.com in 1995 to amplify public-interest voices on controversial issues, often in coordination with advertisements published on the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com provides daily highlights and links to news, ideas and actions.
2003 ($10,000), 2002 ($10,000), 2001 ($10,000)

In These Times (Institute for Public Affairs)
In These Times is a magazine of news, opinion and culture, committed to extending political and economic democracy and to opposing the control of the marketplace over human values.
2002 ($10,000), 2001 ($10,000)

Independent Media Institute
Alternet.org
AlterNet’s online magazine provides a mix of news, opinion and investigative journalism on a range of subjects critical to society today.
2004 ($10,000), 2003 ($10,000), 2002 ($10,000), 2001 ($10,000)

The MediaChannel (International Center for Global Communications)
MediaChannel.org is a public interest Web site dedicated to global media issues. MediaChannel offers news, reports and commentary from an international network of media-issues organizations and publications, as well as original features from contributors and staff. MediaChannel also tracks issues relating to media policy.
2003 ($10,000), 2002 ($10,000), 2001 ($10,000)

Minuteman Media (Co-Op America)
Minuteman Media distributes to smaller newspapers nationwide a weekly packet of six columns and a cartoon containing sound, progressive opinion on such topics as peace and disarmament, women’s rights, the environment, campaign finance, agribusiness and consumer action. They help balance the flood of free columns that comes in daily from the prolific radical right.
2004 ($10,000), 2003 ($10,000)

Mother Jones (Foundation for National Progress)
Mother Jones, publisher of Mother Jones Magazine and Motherjones.com, is an independent nonprofit whose roots lie in a commitment to social justice implemented through investigative reporting.
2004 ($10,000), 2003 ($10,000), 2002 ($10,000), 2001 ($10,000)

The Nation Institute
Dedicated to an independent free press, The Nation Institute places particular importance on strengthening the independent press in the face of America’s increasingly corporate-controlled flow of information. Through its programs, it promotes progressive values in a variety of media platforms.
2004 ($10,000), 2003 ($10,000), 2002 ($10,000), 2001 ($10,000)