Blog entries from Martina Taci

EU Award for Articles on Diversity open for submissions

Martina Taci — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:15:32 +0100

The EU Journalist Award ‘Together against discrimination’ has now reached its seventh edition. The award aims to honour online or print journalists in the EU who, through their work, contribute to a better public understanding of the value and bRead More...

Personal arrogance or unfair journalism?

Martina Taci — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:25:31 +0100

When facts like this one happen, it's hard not to be frightened by the power of the media and, especially, by the cosequences of an unfair media coverage...

On the 12th of April, outside the Royal Court of Melbourn in Australia, an Aussy-born Muslim guy, suspected of riot, was leaving Read More...

Let’s raise Migrant Voice

Martina Taci — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:15:19 +0100

In a country which hosts more than 10 officially recognized ethic groups on its territory and where, according to the numbers provided by the Office for National Statistics, the population, during the whole 2009, increased of about 147,000 unities due to the migratory fluxes, it is quite clear that the voice of migrant people needs to be raised, especially on election time. That&rsRead More...

AFROCUBANAS - Ines Maria Martiau Terry's blog

Martina Taci — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:02:31 +0100

Please, take a moment to click on the link below and enjoy Ines Maria Martiau' s blog: a tribute to all the black women which are making the history of Cuba...

http://afrocubana.wordpress.com/

An MDI trainee’s impressions of London

Martina Taci — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:52:58 +0100

Follow the link below to read - only in Arabic - an impression from one of MDI's journalist trainees during her study visit to London during the last week of February 2010.

Dalia El-Akkad is a young Egyptian journalist from El-Shorouk daily independent newspaper in Egypt. She was invited by MDI to London afterRead More...

What’s around the word “diversity”?

Martina Taci — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:35:11 +0100

You might object that this is a very banal or rhetorical topic...perhaps you’re right. But, notwithstanding this, I think that, often, there’s still a lot of hypocrisy in Western Countries, about the use of this word.

Nowadays, as people have generally not enough time to delve into the news, mainstream media shouldn’t profit too much of their credibility, opting for a fair and honest way on reporting the facts.

Even though this should be dictated by peoRead More...