Stories
Our stories examine the ways that race, religion, class, dis/ability, age, gender and sexual identity issues intersect with major topics in the media, and aim to bring new perspectives to light.
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Putting ‘Britishness’ to the test in Bradford
Published: 23 March 2012 Region: UK By Radman Selmic The Channel 4 reality show Make Bradford British has attracted public …
Cypriot Community Media Calls for Greater Racial Representation in the...
Published: 23 March 2012 Region: Cyprus On the occasion of the European-wide Action Week Against Racism (17-25 March) and the International …
Argentine Newspaper Convicted for Discrimination Against Women
Published: 20 March 2012 Region: Americas By Liliana Honorato/NR An Argentine federal court convicted the newspaper Clarín for publishing an …
Azhar Ahmed: Facebook Thought Criminal
Published: 16 March 2012 Region: Great Britain *Edited: 27 March 2012 Pedja Urosevic & Patrick White 19-year-old Azhar Ahmed has …
Romani Film Nominated for International Film Festival
Published: 16 March 2012 Region: Worldwide A Hungarian Romani film has been nominated for the 8th AlJazeera International Documentary Film …
Egyptian Media Discuss Diversity at MDI Cairo Conference
Published: 13 March 2012 Region: Egypt By John Owen “The title of the conference made me start laughing,” was how …
MDI launches first ever study on diversity in Egyptian Media
Published: 10 March 2012 Region: Egypt The Media Diversity Institute has launched the first ever study on diversity in the …
Women and the News: Speak Up, Speak Out
Published: 9 March 2012 Region: Worldwide The Internews toolkit ‘Speak Up, Speak Out: A Toolkit for Reporting on Human Rights …
Big Fat Gypsy Confusion
Published: 9 March 2012 Region: UK By Patrick White The new series of the hit UK television show Big Fat …
Turkish ‘Shoah’ Broadcast Exposes Difficult Truths
Published: 9 March 2012 Region: Middle East By Patrick White Anyone hoping to see a wind of change across the …
