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.
