Campaign for Freedom of Information
Director: Maurice Frankel
Suite 102, 16 Baldwins Gardens, London EC1N 7RJ
Tel: 020 7831 7477   Fax: 020 7831 7461
E-mail: admin@cfoi.demon.co.uk
Campaigns against unnecessary secrecy and for a Freedom of Information Act. Monitors existing access rights and provide practical guides to help people use them; has promoted a series of private members' bills in Parliament, several of which have become law, providing new rights of access to personal files and other information. Provides training to public authorities preparing to implement the Act and will be providing training courses for users shortly before the access rights come into force. A small non-profit organisation, not affiliated to a political party and supported by some 90 national organisations.
Main sources of funding: Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, Consumers' Association, UNISON, the Allen Lane Foundation, the Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation.

Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom
Chair: Julian Petley
2nd Floor, Vi & Garner Smith House, 23 Orford Road, Walthamstow, London E17 9NL
Tel: 020 8521 5932
E-mail: freepress@NOSPAM.cpbf.org.uk
CPBF was set up by media workers and academics in 1979 as an independent voice for media reform, seeking a media which is more accountable to the people it is meant to serve; the break-up of media concentration to promote greater media diversity; rights of citizens to redress for unfair coverage; rights of journalists to report freely. Runs conferences & partnership events, lobbies parliament and publishes books. A membership organisation working closely with media unions. Has always worked closely with PressWise which grew out of some of its campaigns on right to reply.

Campaign for Quality Television
45 Loftus Road, London W12 7 EH
Tel: 020 8980 8312
E-mail: bridgetcass@email.msn.com
Set up in 1988 to express the concern of programme makers about de-regulation of television. Relaunched in 1995 to promote public service television, choice and quality for all viewers in the UK; to ensure that efforts are made in an era of rapid technical advance, to match the new breadth of choice with a true breadth of quality; to ensure that public service television is adequately funded; promote public debate about television; and to persuade legislators towards policies which are creative and imaginative and which treat the viewers as partners in the enterprise of television rather than sources of revenue.

Cardiff University, School of Journalism, Media & Cultural Studies
Bute Building, Cardiff University, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3NB
Tel: 029 2087 4509
Email: JOMEC@cardiff.ac.uk
JOMEC has teaching interests in journalism. international media, media technologies, media development, film, radio, television, photojournalism, magazine journalism and public and media relations. It has three research groups: The Tom Hopkinson Centre for Media Research; Risk, Media and Communication Research Group, and Cultural Performance and Identity. The School also houses the Centre for Journalism Studies, founded in 1970.
 
Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester
Director: Dr Ralph Negrine
University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH
Tel: +44 (0)116 252 3863   Fax : +44(0)116 252 3874
E-mail: rxn@le.ac.uk
Established in 1966 and now one of the UK's leading centres for research and teaching in media and communications for UK and international students, encouraging debate on the local, national and global nature of contemporary mass media. CMCR continues to support and encourage a variety of research interests in and approaches to the study of the media, communications and related topics. The academic Staff include sociologists, political scientists, communications and cultural theorists, experts in language and linguistics, and researchers in international film and cinema who undertake research projects to contribute to public debate and inform policy on the media and communication issues, and serve as consultants and advisers to international agencies, Government departments and to media, research and higher educational institutions overseas. Recent studies have covered the media and the British criminal justice system, ethnic minorities and television, the press and parliament, children's television, the media and sport, television and food choice, radio drama and health education, the international news agencies, east European film, and the international popular music industry.
Recent CMCR research has been supported by UNESCO, the ESRC, the UK Government Home Office, EU, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishers and Food (MAFF), the Leverhulme Trust, the Broadcasting Standards Commission, Channel 4 & the World-Wide Fund for Nature.

Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies
Director: Prof. John Storey
University of Sunderland, The Media Centre, St. Peter's Campus, Sunderland, SR6 0DD
Tel: (0191) 515 2082   Fax: (0191) 515 3807
E-mail: laura.maynard@sunderland.ac.uk
The Centre's research activities encompass the study of audiences, cultural consumption and everyday life; cross-cultural communication; cultural theory and popular culture; European and global media structures; language, culture and gender; media discourses; media education; media ethics and journalism practice.

Children's Express UK
Exmouth House, 3-11 Pine Street, London EC1R 0JH
Tel: 020 7833 2577   Fax: 020 7278 7722
E-mail: enquiries@childrens-express.btinternet.com
A growing national news agency, and a charity, where young people aged 8-18 produce articles on issues that are important to them, but of interest to everyone. Materials are carried by national & local press and media. Has international links, and has worked with PressWise.

Commonwealth Broadcasting Association  
Secretary General: Elizabeth Smith
17 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1AA.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7583 5550   Fax: +44 (0)20 7583 5549
E-mail: elizabeth@cba.org.uk 
Working for quality broadcasting throughout the Commonwealth.

Cyfle (including Media Skills Wales)
Caernarfon Office - Gronant, Penrallt Isaf, Caemarfon, Gwynedd LL55 1NS
Tel: 01286 671 000   Fax: 01286 678831
Cardiff Office - 3rd Floor, Crichton House, 11-12 Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff, CF10 5EE
Tel: 029 2046 5533  Fax: 029 2046 3344
E-mail: cyfle@cyfle.co.uk
Cyfle is responsible for training provision in the Welsh film and television industries, which are major employers in the country.