Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) Records

Call Number

TAM.282

Date

1983-1993, inclusive

Creator

Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (Organization) (Role: Donor)

Extent

0.75 Linear Feet

(1 box)

Language of Materials

English .

Abstract

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) is a progressive media watch organization founded in 1986 by journalist Jeff Cohen. FAIR publishes Extra!, a magazine of media criticism, and produces Counterspin, a radio news program. It is active against censorship, and advocates for diversity, and the break up of the dominant media conglomerates. The collection includes correspondence (mostly of Jeff Cohen), internal documents, and back issues of publications.

Historical/Biographical Note

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), a progressive media watch organization that works with journalists and activists, was founded in 1986 by journalist Jeff Cohen. FAIR publishes Extra!, a magazine of media criticism, and produces Counterspin, a radio news program. FAIR conducts media research, produces reports (notably through its Womens' Desk and Racism Watch Desk units), opposes censorship, and advocates for greater diversity and representation of minority viewpoints. FAIR believes that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, to establish independent public broadcasting, and to promote strong non-profit sources of information.

Arrangement

Folders are arranged alphabetically.

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains correspondence (mostly that of Jeff Cohen), internal documents, reports and studies, editorial material pertaining to Extra!, back issues (1992) of Counterspin: A Memo on Campaign Coverage from FAIR, published and unpublished writings by Jeff Cohen and others, a file on FAIR's Los Angeles chapter, and another on related organizations.

Subjects

Organizations

Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (Organization)

Genres

Reports.; Writings (document genre); Correspondence.

People

Cohen, Jeff, 1951-

Topics

Mass media criticism |z United States.

Donors

Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright (and related rights to publicity and privacy) to materials in this collection created by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date; Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) Records; TAM 282; box number; folder number;
Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012, New York University Libraries.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) in 1994. The accession number associated with this collection is 1994.005.

Custodial History

The archived website was migrated from the California Digital Library's Web Archiving Service to the Internet Archive's Archive-It Service in November 2015. The link to California Digital Library was removed in October 2017.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.

Collection processed by

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Using Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Language: Description is in English.

Processing Information

In 2014, the archived website was added as a series.

Edition of this Guide

This version was derived from FAIR Guide.doc

Repository

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

Container

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Records

Cohen, Jeff: Writings, 1983-1986, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence, undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence, 1985, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence, 1986, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence, 1987, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence, 1988, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence, 1989, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence, 1990-1993, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence: ABC, 1986-1988, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence: PBS, 1986-1988, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Counterspin: A Memo on Campaign Coverage from FAIR, 1992, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Documents, Ephemera, Clippings, undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Documents, Ephemera, Clippings, 1986-1993, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Extra! (Editorial Material), 1988-1989, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Faces of War(Documentary on Central America) , 1985-1986, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

FAIR: Los Angeles Chapter, 1983-1986, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Founding of FAIR / Initial Activities, 1985-1986, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Related Organizations, 1985-1989, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Report: Are You on the Nightline Guest List?, 1989, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Report: Lost in the Margins: Labor & the Media, 1990, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Report (to FAIR): Network Television & Newspaper Coverage of the Environment Since Earth Day 1990, 1992, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Report: Public Television "Prime Time": Public Affairs Programming, Political Diversity, & the Conservative Critique of Public Television, by David Croteau, et al, 1993, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Safire, William" - by Robert Ranflet, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Women & Media Activism Kit, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Archived Website, Oct 2, 2007-ongoing

Scope and Content Note

FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting), a national media watch group, has been offering criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. FAIR advocates greater diversity in the press, structural reform in the media, and works to expose neglected news stories. FAIR publishes Extra!, a magazine of media criticism, and produces the weekly radio program CounterSpin. In addition, they have a listserv through which they distribute regular action alerts to their international network of activists.

Externally hosted content

Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6334/*/http://fair.org/