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Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents  (PDF / 2350KB)
On the occasion of Online Free Expression Day, March 12, the France-based press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders made available a new version of the Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents , which offers practical advice and techniques on how to create a blog. For more info and to access the handbook visit http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=26187, or click on the linked title to be taken directly to the handbook.
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Media debates multi-culturalism
Is multi-culturalism eroding social unity in countries such as Britain? Does Britain need more 'Britishness'? What defines the common ground in the country, and where is the balance between that common ground, Britishness, multi-culturalism and separatism? The London bombing prompted the debate in the UK . Elsewhere similar discussions induced either by global happenings or domestic experiences are taking place too.
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Comics industry draws on diversity
X-ray vision. Teleportation. Shape-shifting. Flight. The special abilities of superheroes are certainly diverse, but historically the faces behind the masks have been much less so. Out of costume the biggest difference was black hair or blond. Green skin was more common than any shade of brown. And on the rare occasion when nonwhite heroes were included, names like Black Panther and Black Lightning telegraphed the difference. (The New York Times)
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Bonuses tied to diversity targets
Mark Thompson is getting tough over diversity. He is demanding that targets must be met for increasing the numbers of staff from ethnic minorities and with disabilities – and any director who fails to deliver will not get an annual bonus.
(by Andrew Harvey, Ariel BBC, 17January, 2006)
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Identity crisis
As more people define themselves by their spiritual beliefs, there are controversial plans to introduce legislation to curb incitement to religious hatred. Philip Pullman asks if the law will distinguish between a rational analysis of theology and a call for violence, while Monica Ali, Philip Hensher and Salman Rushdie consider the threat to free speech. Extracts from essays in Free Expression is No Offence, published by English Pen and Penguin on December 1. (The Guardian, 19 November, 2005)
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• Diversity Syllabi database
The Diversity Syllabi database is a resource for journalism educators to use in creating and/or improving diversity courses at the university level. These syllabi were collected from universities in the United States accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. (CIIJ)
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• Kit measures how inclusive and representative your coverage is
The Maynard Institute's 'Reality Checks' kit provides tools for measuring and discussing how accurately the news reflects the realities of America's multicultural society. The kit provides tools for an analysis of both your community's characteristics and your local newspaper content through the prism of the fault lines of race, gender, class, generation and geography. The purpose is to help journalists make news coverage more inclusive and representative of their communities. (PDF / 404KB)
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The sobering face of diversity
In an article published in the autumn issue of the French 'Enjeux Internationaux' journal, MDI director Milica Pesic writes that the bombing attacks on London are a good starting point for discussion on how journalists approach diversity and what the role of the media should be in mirroring diversity. (MDI)
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Diversity guide from the Maynard Institute
The 'Diversity Guide' of 'The Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education' in the US, offers a range of US-based programmes, awards, fellowships, events, tools and links with a media diversity focus.
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The newsroom diversity challenge. Are you up to it?
An interactive game from 'The Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education' in the US, which puts players in the role of an editor and challenges them to diversify a typical newsroom, while testing their basic knowledge of cultures. As editor, you have just been appointed editor of a mid-size newspaper and the publisher has asked you to move aggressively to diversify newsroom staffing and the paper's content. Are you up to it?
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The media's role in combating intolerance, xenophobia and racism (PDF / 1.3MB)
The 'Media and Tolerance' paper prepared by the International Federation of Journalists examines problems facing journalists regarding the media's role in intolerance, xenophobia and racism. It reviews legal standards, international conventions and ethical codes of journalism and outlines suggestions for future action.
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is diversity? What is the media's role?
What
is diversity? Does it necessarily lead to fragmentation of societies? What are
the media's responsibilities in creating images of the 'other'?
A keynote address given by author Micheal Ignatieff at the "Reporting Diversity
in Central and Eastern Europe" forum (London, 19th November, 1998) held by
The Freedom Forum, in conjunction with the Center for War, Peace and the News
Media (at NYU)
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(from the Poynter Institute)
A
collection of media diversity related material from The Poynter Institute, the
prestigious US-based school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers
of journalism.
(Pointeronline)
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Mirroring
Images: Ethnic Minorities in the South East European Press
An MDI
commissioned research report on press coverage of ethnic minorities in South East
Europe. The report is based on content analysis of newspapers in 10 countries
and territories: Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia,
Montenegro, Romania and Serbia.
It concludes that coverage of ethnic minorities
is related to the quality of inter-ethnic relations in each country; that the
press reflects widespread and deeply-rooted stereotypes and prejudices; and that
journalistic practices that contribute to intolerance are rife throughout the
region.
PDF
version of the Research Report with Charts
(PDF / 93KB)
HTML
version of the Research Report with Charts
PDF
version of the Complete Book of Charts
(PDF
/ 317KB)
HTML
version of the Complete Book of Charts
(by
Dr Snjezana Milivojevic for MDI, 2002)
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Study finds Croatia's HRT state TV weak on minority issues
An OSCE-funded study on the Croatian State broadcaster HRT indicates that the station still does not pay enough attention to issues such as refugee returns and minority rights.
(OSCE)
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No offence, but why are all white men so aggressive?
Sometimes it takes so long to figure out what's wrong with a question that you never quite get to the answer, writes Gary Younge in Britain's 'The Guardian' newspaper. Turn round the questions asked of black people and you may get the point.
(The Guardian, 1 December, 2004)
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places: Arab and American reporters sample each other's cultures
Journalists
in America and the Middle East are trading places as part of an exchange program
which aims to bridge cultural and political gaps between peoples. (PBS)
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for Diversity Agency in South Africa Sparks Debate
A
draft law in South Africa to create a Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA)
has sparked varying views over whether the agency will be independent from political
control as it tries to expand diversity in the nation's media.
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and Multiculture
Multiculture
in the media is a top issue all over the world, particularly generated by terrorists
attacks on the United States, and it is used in the media to prevent a conflict
between Islam and Christianity. In South East Europe, a multinational region with
acute conflicts, coverage of these issues brings up many dilemmas, both in aim
as well as content.
(by Radenko
Udovicic - SAFAX news agency, Media Online news column, 2001)
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Versus Professionalism
"When
you stand at the site of a massacre, two things happen. First, you wonder about
the depths of the human spirit. And then you ask yourself how many lies can be
told about it".(by Milica Pesic - Message, Germany, 1 July, 1999)
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Journalists Find Tolerance a Hard Lesson to Learn
Like
many formerly communist states in Eastern Europe, Romania has a long way to go
in accepting the clash of views and opinions and in tolerating differences. "Tolerance
is a hard lesson to learn," says Ion Zubascu, a journalist who participated
in a seminar, "Minorities in the Mass Media," which was convened late
last month at the Hotel Dorobanti.
(by
Milica Pesic - The Freedom Forum, 26 Febrary, 1999)
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& People: A Manual of Human Rights Reporting in India
The
manual has a human rights focus, but contains much useful diversity material.
Included is a section on discrimination that examines the rights of women, the
aged, children, people with disabilities and refugees, as well as those of members
of castes or tribes. While aimed at working journalists in India (as well as Indian
journalism students), the manual could also be useful to journalists in other
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