A communication research institute of the University of Pennsylvania. Areas of research: media and politics, children's television, health communication, information technologies.

The Center for Media & Public Affairs is a research and educational organization which conducts studies of the news and entertainment media.

A nonprofit forum for examining communications policy issues. Many publications on communications policy.

A Kennedy School of Government research center dedicated to exploring the intersection of press, politics and public policy in theory and practice.

"The Pew Center is an incubator for civic journalism that enables news organizations to create and refine better ways of reporting the news to re-engage people in public life."