C-SPAN - a public service created by the American cable television industry to provide live proceedings of the U.S. House and Senate as well as to other forums "where public policy is discussed, debated and decided--all without editing, commentary or analysis and with a balanced presentation of points of view."
JURIST - legal news service based at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, "produced as a public service ... to track important legal news stories and materials and present them rapidly, objectively and intelligibly in an accessible, ad-free format."
Justice Talking - The public radio show about law and American life.
J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism - a venture fund for interactive news and information.
National Public Radio - Tune in Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Talk of the Nation. For interviews and analysis you will enjoy Here And Now, To the Point, and other news magazine shows.
Pew Center for Civic Journalism - "an incubator for civic journalism experiments that enable news organizations to create and refine better ways of reporting the news to re-engage people in public life."
Stateline.org - an online news source that reports each weekday on state government, tracking and analyzing policy trends in the 50 states.
American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank - Active links to over 5,000 public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, and more collected by Michael E. Eidenmuller, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Speech Communication, University of Texas at Tyler.
Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia - Northwestern University - "The OYEZ Project provides access to more than 2000 hours of Supreme Court audio. All audio in the Court recorded since 1995 is included in the project. Before 1995, the audio collection is selective. It remains our aim to create a complete and authoritative archive of Supreme Court audio covering the entire span from October 1955 through the most recent release."
