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What Does It Take To Have An Inclusive Newsroom?

What Does It Take To Have An Inclusive Newsroom?

It is more than just a checklist.

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Incomplete, Uncontextualized and Blatantly Racist: US Media’s Covera...

Incomplete, Uncontextualized and Blatantly Racist: US Media’s Covera...

By: Jen Deerinwater The Navajo Nation has the highest per capita infection rate from the COVID-19 pandemic, eclipsing New York …

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Watch Out, 2020! What Media Trends Should You Keep An Eye On?

Watch Out, 2020! What Media Trends Should You Keep An Eye On?

The roaring twenties have just begun. We have left behind a decade where online media morphed from being about sharing …

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What do Hester’s remarks about UK PM Diane Abbott say about media co...

What do Hester’s remarks about UK PM Diane Abbott say about media co...

Exploring the Depths of Media Racism: Diane Abbott's Experience Sheds Light on the UK's Struggle

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Diversity and Me

Diversity and Me

"Promoting the message that everybody has a right to be heard is often an ongoing struggle. When people feel threatened there is a tendency to revert to an atavistic nationalism. As journalists we must strive to keep the door open to everyone, to confront ignorance and ...

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My story, my way 

My story, my way 

"As a journalist, I saw diversity as a necessary ingredient of any story aspiring “to provide the best obtainable version of the truth”, to quote Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame. Could the press do that without being itself a reflection of the diversity of the soci...

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Political Diversity In The Media As An Issue In The Professional Life ...

Political Diversity In The Media As An Issue In The Professional Life ...

"I am strongly convinced that the Serbian media system needs another radical reconstruction. There is also a need for the re-education of politicians, journalists and news audiences of both traditional and digital media about the necessity of active and passive access t...

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When Change Isn’t Enough

When Change Isn’t Enough

"Without exception, each scholar was surprised and excited that I was from England. "I didn’t know there were Black people in Britain" was a common refrain. To many, I was from an unheard species called Black British journalist. My heart sank." 

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Journalism, Diversity and Faces of Change

Journalism, Diversity and Faces of Change

The story about media and diversity for many of us starts with the question of whom journalists should listen to.

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BBC in Crisis: Lessons to Be Learned from the ‘Lineker Scandal’

BBC in Crisis: Lessons to Be Learned from the ‘Lineker Scandal’

The BBC needs to debate and adopt core newsroom values if it wants to thrive and flourish in a landscape of competing interests.

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Donald Trump’s Social Media Reinstatement Raises Several Questions

Donald Trump’s Social Media Reinstatement Raises Several Questions

The main question now surrounding Trump’s return to social media is: Will he go back to promoting the same hate speech and divisive language he did before January 6th?

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When Global Justice Movements Meet the Media’s Western Gaze

When Global Justice Movements Meet the Media’s Western Gaze

More than the bias of a specific journalist, the general trend of selective activism in media should be leading us to question why certain stories get so big in the first place.

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