FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting describes itself as a national media watch group, in place since 1986 and also an anti-censorship group. The organization's e-mail and mail addresses and telephone numbers are listed, as are nine individuals (w/title and e-mail). Each have brief bio information available and lists of articles they have written. It's fairly clear by works cited that they're (in their own words) "a progressive group." They have endorsements of FAIR from well-known writers/reporters, including Jonathan Kozol, Studs Terkel and Judy Muller.
FAIR is a national organization that is concerned with promotion of what it considers minority and dissenting voices as opposed to information that is dominated by "media conglomerates." They also describe spokespersons from FAIR talking about media issues on mainstream TV and in national newspaper articles.
I didn't find any links to outside pages. There are links, however, to content from a radio program FAIR produces, called "CounterSpin" and a magazine, "EXTRA!" These also have staff listing links.
The Center for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia links to FAIR. Also, an organization called the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, which appears to be another "watch" organization. The University of Chicago Library has FAIR linked under an "alternative news" heading. Others linking to FAIR appear to be generally liberal-leaning, as FAIR itself. The (at least) two university links suggest FAIR is known and is considered serious.
FAIR's thrust is support of news and information from outside what it considers the more corporate-influenced sources. The topic of whether (or how) information is politically oriented, biased, or one-sided has been the subject of many articles and books. The news reports that are referenced on the FAIR site would be easy enough to check in their original context (as likely would other responses). FAIR's site would be a useful source though, I think, for stories that may, or may not, have been reported objectively.