Past Projects
Media Diversity Institute works on projects that promote media and information literacy, better representation of minority groups in the media and combat disinformation around the world.
Part II: Seeing the Roma Without Prejudice
A large, two-year media diversity project that aimed to help Roma communities overcome discrimination, marginalisation and the violations of their rights through a process of media education and empowerment, and increasing the amount of fair representation of Roma voices in the media. The programme targeted Roma journalists working in both specialist Roma media and in the mainstream media; non-Roma journalists and media outlets; Roma NGOs and community leaders. The project activities included: a translation into Albanian and Macedonian languages of...
Reporting Diversity: Nigeria
A short term project designed to bring together journalists from different ethnic groups, to train them in coverage of diversity-related issues. Project activities focused around the production of a reporting diversity manual for African journalists and a national retreat for print editors and broadcast managers. The objective of the course was to enable journalists coming from different ethnic backgrounds to understand that there is always a common ground, a basic human interest which put people together regardless of their nationality,...
Reporting Diversity: A Specialized Academic Programme To Promote Inter-Community Dialogue & Peaceful Political, Economic and Social Reforms in Egypt
The aim of this programme was to advance journalism education in Egypt through the development of specialised university courses focusing on the theory and practice of critical, inclusive, and responsible reporting on social diversity. The project consisted of a series of workshops, for academics from several Egyptian universities, providing guidance on how to develop such courses. There are many media projects in the Middle East which target working journalists. The approach of this core MDI activity is to target professors...
Reporting Diversity for Jewish and Arab Israeli Journalism Students
A continuation of the successful project set up in 2004. This time a new generation of Jewish and Arab undergraduate journalism students from the Emek Yezreel College near Nazareth, have explored their own experience of otherness, coexistence and inclusion, especially in the aftermath of the recent crisis in the Middle East. The students decided whether to produce a bi-lingual newspaper supplement, as in the pilot or to set up a webzine, or produce a video. The aim of this project...
