Todas las fuentes citadas a continuación son accesibles a través de internet. El listado con libros, artículos y reportes sobre medios de comunicación y elecciones se encuentra en Bibliografía.

Leyes y normas

Los siguientes sitios de la red mundial brindan información acerca de las leyes, normas y prácticas de los medios durante períodos electorales que son ampliamente aceptadas a nivel internacional:

• Relator Especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre Libertad de Opinión y Expresión: http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/7/b/mfro.htm. La fuente esencial para normas globales sobre asuntos de medios de comunicación, incluyendo elecciones y democracias en transición.
• ARTÍCULO 19, Campaña Global a favor de la Libertad de Expresión: http://www.article19.org/. Organización no-gubernamental que ha sido pionera en la fijación de normas sobre medios en elecciones transicionales. Incluye reportes sobre leyes de medios, metodologías de monitoreo y cuestiones relativas a la libertad de expresión.
• Communications Law in Transition Newsletter: http://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/transition/. An online journal of media and communications law in transitional democracies.
• Freedom Forum's Media Studies Journal: http://www.mediastudies.org/contents.html. Several issues have dealt with media and elections issues.
• Electoral Institute of Southern Africa: http://www.eisa.org.za/. Regional organization that has promoted standards for media in elections.
• Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe: http://www.osce.org/odihr/. Standards, election observer reports etc.
• European Institute of the Media: http://www.eim.org/. Regional organization with strong Media and Democracy programme and many media monitoring reports.
• National Council on Opinion Polls (United States): http://www.ncpp.org/. Guidance on opinion poll reporting.

Media Regulatory Bodies

This is just a small sample of the many media regulatory bodies. Their responsibilities in election periods vary greatly by country:

• Independent Broadcasting Authority (South Africa): http://www.iba.org.za/. A pioneer in developing media regulations for a transitional democracy.
• Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/.
• Australian Broadcasting Authority: http://www.aba.gov.au/.
• Federal Communications Commission (United States): http://www.fcc.gov/.
• Broadcasting Standards Commission (United Kingdom): http://www.bsc.org.uk/. The statutory broadcasting complaints authority.

Media Monitoring

The following sites offer samples of media monitoring reports from elections and, in some cases, also guidance on how to monitor:

• ARTICLE 19: http://www.article19.org. As above.
• European Institute of the Media: http://www.eim.org. As above.
• Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe: http://www.osce.org/odihr/elecrep.htm. As above.
• Memo 98 (Slovakia): http://www.memo98.sk
• Media Monitoring Project (South Africa): http://www.sn.apc.org/mmp/.
• Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe: http://mmpz.icon.co.zw/.
• Media Monitoring Project Tanzania: http://www.jeas-tanzania.org/.
• Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (United States): http://www.fair.org/.

Media Freedom and Protection of Journalists

The following are organizations that may not specifically work on media and elections but have a strong focus on defence of media freedom:

• International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX): http://www.ifex.org/. A network of all the main media freedom organizations, international, regionally and nationally. An important source of links.
• International Federation of Journalists: http://www.ifj.org/. Also a source for standards, training materials etc.
• Freedom Forum: http://www.freedomforum.org/. Standards, training resources, discussion.
• Committee to Protect Journalists: http://www.cpj.org/. Campaigns for journalists who are imprisoned or under threat.
• Reporters sans Frontieres: http://www.rsf.fr/. International media freedom campaign.
• Media Institute of Southern Africa: http://www.misanet.org/. Media freedom in Southern Africa, but also training, standards etc.
• Commonwealth Broadcasting Association: http://www.oneworld.org/cba/. Grouping of mainly public broadcasters on broadcasting freedom, standards, training etc.
• World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters: http://www.amarc.org. Campaigning, training, standards.