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.
Reporting Diversity: A Project to Promote Inter-Community Dialogue and Moderate Voices as a Means to Prevent Religious Radicalisation in Egypt
This three year media programme promoted inter-community dialogue and moderate voices as a means to prevent religious radicalisation in Egypt. The project advanced journalism education and journalism skills through hands-on production training for practicing journalists and through development and implementation of specialised university curricula related to responsible reporting on social and cultural diversity in general, and religious diversity (cross religious and intra-religious) in particular. The main activities included Reporting Diversity Curricula Development (RDCD) workshops and a mentoring programme for Egyptian...
Anti-Discrimination Campaign
MDI provides consultancy/expertise related to more professional reporting on discrimination. This includes contribution to the Campaigns’s Diversity Manual and production of a Diversity Glossary as a stand alone CoE publication in several languages, available for all media organisations and Civil Society Organisations interested and/or specialised in the field of anti-discrimination. Timeframe: 2008 - 2012 Region/country: Europe Partner: Council of Europe Funding: Council of Europe
Training for Trainers: Reporting Diversity
Recognising that suitably experienced and skilled Reporting Diversity (RD) trainers are incredibly rare on the global media training market, MDI intends to train more of them on a regular, systematic basis. Development of a specialised reporting diversity trainers-training program and the resulting pool of highly trained professionals will benefit MDI but the industry as whole as well. The ‘Training of trainers – development of RD trainer cadre’ program will lay the foundation for a series of annual ‘train-the-trainers’ workshops, starting...
Macedonia: Reporting Diversity
Conducted during the tense spring and summer of 2001, this project aimed to bring together journalists from different ethnic groups, and to train them in coverage of diversity-related issues. The cross-ethnic team worked together on a series of articles. The trainer and the journalists would use as their core training material an MDI reporting diversity manual in both Albanian and Macedonian languages. (MDI already had a Macedonian version - an Albanian translation was produced under this grant). The objective of...
