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Local News Matters: New Pathways for Sustainability and Community-Powe...

Local News Matters: New Pathways for Sustainability and Community-Powe...

4 MAY 2026, BELvue Museum, Brussels Register Join Us for a One‑Day Conference Shaping the Future of Local Media in …

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Engaging With the Next Generation: Youth, Media, and the Public Sphere

Engaging With the Next Generation: Youth, Media, and the Public Sphere

International Journalism Festival 2026 | Perugia – Side event Register here MDI Global is heading to Perugia for the International …

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Where We Stand: Gender, Language and the Politics of Hate

Where We Stand: Gender, Language and the Politics of Hate

Register here Where We Stand: Gender, Language and the Politics of Hate 23 February 2026 | BELvue Museum, Brussels Where …

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OPEN CALL: Building Alternative and Counter Narratives in the Media

OPEN CALL: Building Alternative and Counter Narratives in the Media

Building Alternative and Counter Narratives in the Media is a series of three interactive, half-day online forums organised by PARATA …

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MDI at UNESCO Global MIL Week 2025: Tackling AI, Diversity and Digital...

MDI at UNESCO Global MIL Week 2025: Tackling AI, Diversity and Digital...

Watch the full recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HU-Yjxk74k On Friday, 24 October 2025, the Media Diversity Institute hosted an English-language panel at UNESCO’s …

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Taming the Beast – Social Media Platforms and Regulating Content

Taming the Beast – Social Media Platforms and Regulating Content

A panel discussion at the Reporting Diversity Network (RDN) conference Breaking Words, Building Bridges: Responses to Polarisation in the Western Balkans in Belgrade, Serbia, September 2025.

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Coming Clean: Book launch explores the left’s crisis and the way for...

Coming Clean: Book launch explores the left’s crisis and the way for...

The Media Diversity Institute (MDI), in collaboration with the Centre for Law, Democracy, and Society at Queen Mary University of …

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Can diversity survive in the age of big tech? MDI at the International...

Can diversity survive in the age of big tech? MDI at the International...

Watch the full panel from the International Journalism Festival 2025.

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Hashtag Generation’s Social Media Analysis Finds that Online Abuse I...

Hashtag Generation’s Social Media Analysis Finds that Online Abuse I...

In Sri Lanka there is a need for democratic engagement in the online space and more accountability from social media companies for the harm perpetrated on their platforms.

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What is Newsworthy in a Meeting between a Rabbi, a Priest, and an Imam...

What is Newsworthy in a Meeting between a Rabbi, a Priest, and an Imam...

Around 170 participants from 55 countries participated in the first hybrid-style workshop within the Global Exchange on Religion and Society (GERIS) project implemented by PARTICIP and Media Diversity Institute (MDI), and supported by the European Commission.

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Media Diversity Institute at the Fazana Media Fest

Media Diversity Institute at the Fazana Media Fest

Media Diversity Institute co-organised this year's  International Multimedia Journalism Festival Fažana Media Fest, on 6-12 September, in Fazana, Croatia, where we presented some of our  recent work.

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How the news media can advance diversity and inclusion in 2021 and bey...

How the news media can advance diversity and inclusion in 2021 and bey...

After a turbulent year of protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, the US and UK media industries have had to re-evaluate their approach to diversity and racism.

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