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• Reporting Diversity Manual - Balkan edition
 (PDF / 505KB)
A Media Diversity Institute guide
to diversity reporting. The manual includes sections on ethnicity, religion, gender,
people with disabilities, socially disadvantaged groups, elderly people, refugees,
sexual orientation, political dissidents, and photographs/images. Each section
contains reporting tips and detailed analysis of actual articles (taken from newspapers
from South East Europe, Western Europe and the US). Training modules are also
included.
Published by MDI, 2002. (Also
available in Albanian and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian) |
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• Reporting Diversity Manual - South Caucasus edition
(PDF / 1MB)
A Media Diversity Institute guide to diversity reporting. The manual includes sections on ethnicity, religion, gender, people with disabilities, socially disadvantaged groups, elderly people, refugees, sexual orientation, political dissidents, and photographs/images. Each section contains reporting tips and detailed analysis of actual articles (taken from newspapers from South Caucasis, Western Europe and the US). Training modules are also included.
Published by MDI, 2004. (Also available in Armenian, Azerbaijani, Georgian and Russian) |
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Azerbaijani (PDF /195KB) |
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• Reporting Diversity Curriculum Framework
Outlines methodologies and modules for sensitising journalism students to minority issues in their future careers as journalists. The curriculum framework has been developed by Professor Brian Winston in cooperation with journalism professors and lecturers from Central and Eastern Europe. Published by MDI, 2002. (not available online)
For further information please contact info@media-diversity.org |
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Media
Monitoring Manual
(PDF / 478KB)
Offers
a surveying ABC for both first time monitors and those with more experience. A
comprehensive resource for anyone wanting to find out how the media in their region
is depicting minorities.
Published by MDI, 2002. |
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Media
Relations Guide
(PDF / 375KB)
A
handbook by the Independent
Journalism Foundation, re-published in cooperation with the Media Diversity
Institute. The handbook is a practical guide to media relations for non-governmental
organisations and people who need to communicate better with the media. Published
by MDI and IJF, 2003 |
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• Reporting Manual on HIV/AIDS  (PDF / 870KB)
This reporting guide on HIV/AIDS was designed for journalists covering the global epidemic, often on short notice. The Kaiser Family Foundation undertook this project as part of its continuing commitment to combating HIV/AIDS through public education and awareness. The material covers a broad range of subjects including the science, treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS. (Kaiser Family Foundation) |
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• Trafficking in Women - Manual for Journalists
The 100-page 'Trafficking in Women - Manual for Journalists Trafficking in Women - Manual for Journalists, is published by ASTRA, the Belgrade-based Anti Sex-Trafficking Action organization. It focuses on the situation in Serbia, giving an overview of sex trafficking in general before addressing the specific situation in Serbia, including media coverage, local laws and regulations, trafficking in children, and the experiences of ASTRA through its SOS Hotline. The manual also gives tips for journalists, including how to find sources and interview them. The manual is available in Serbian and English, languages, but not online.
For hard copies contact ASTRA: Tel +381 11 3347 817, e-mail: astrasos@sezampro.yu |
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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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Press
& 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 countries,
particularly in South Asia. (Press
& People) |
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Whose
News? Whose Views? Southern Africa: Gender in Media Handbook |
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by the 'African Gender and Media Initiative' and 'Gender Links', the handbook
is based on the premise that the media can and should play a critical role in
the transformation of gender relations in society. It provides analysis, training
exercises and checklists for making gender equality a reality the news room.
(Gender
Links) |
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Reporting
Diversity: A Training and Resource Manual for Journalists
on Covering Minorities, Inter-Ethnic Relations, and Other
Diversity Issues
prepared by the International Federation of Journalists
and our partner organisation the Centre for War, Peace and the News Media
at New York University, 1997.
(Note: Archival material not yet available
in electronic form) | | | Albanian
edition: Reportimi I Diversitetit, with the Albanian Media Institute, 1997. | | | Hungarian
edition: Kisebbseg a Sajtoban, with the Center for Independent Journalism,
Budapest, 1997. | | | Latvian
edition: Daudzveidiba: Zurnalistika un Sabiedriba, with the University of Riga,
Journalism Department, 1997. | | | Romanian
edition: Minoritati in Mass Media, with the Center for Independent Journalism,
Bucharest, 1997. | | | Russian
edition: Osvesheniye Problem Ethnicheskih Menyshestv, with the National Press
Institute, Moscow,1997. | | | Albanian
edition: Njoftim per Dallimet, with the Macedonian Institute for Media, Skopje,
1999. | | | Bosnian
edition: Pravo na Razlicitost, with the Media Center Sarajevo, 1999. | | | Macedonian
edition: Izvestuvanje
na Razlicitosti, with the Center for Multi-Ethnic Cooperation, Skopje, 1999. |
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