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Committee for Advertising Practice, www.cap.org.uk

European Food Information Resource Consortium (EUROFIR), www.eurofir.net

Financial Services Authority, www.fsa.org.uk

‘McLibel’, www.mcspotlight.org/case/trial

MediaWise, www.mediawise.org.uk

Natural mineral water regulations 1999, www.uk-legislation.hmso.gov.uk

Ofcom, www.ofcom.org.uk

Presswise, www.presswise.org

Reith Lectures (Baroness O'Neill, 2002), www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2002/

Rockridge Institute, www.rockridgeinstitute.org

SizeUK, www.sizeuk.org

Spinwatch, www.spinwatch.org.uk

Unspeak, www.unspeak.net