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.
Intercultural Cities Programme
MDI provides consultancy/expertise on media and diversity issues for participants of the Council of Europe’s Intercultural Cities Programme, which includes 12 cities from all around Europe. MDI’s role includes the provision of training for journalists who want to enhance their professional standards in reporting on diversity, and training for Civil Society Organisations in media communication/advocacy. Timeframe: 2007 - 2012 Region/country: Europe Partner: Council of Europe Funding: Council of Europe
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...
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...
