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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April 2022 Newsletter: Can the media survive the extinction?
April has been very exciting for Media Diversity Institute! Following a two year break due to the global pandemic, the International …
Media Coverage of Gender Disparities in Education Needs To Move Beyond...
Education journalism needs to start focusing more on the context that is missing, and thereby start filling up the gap to provide a bigger picture. The lack of focus on these gaps is perhaps why we as a global community...
MDI at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia
By Anna Ambrochowicz In December 2021 US President Joe Biden announced that the US will support the Independent Fund for …
“Scarcely Debated, Rarely Remembered”: The media’s lack of Roma ...
The debate on the limits of satire is long and complicated. However, satire has been used for centuries to mock those in power. When it mocks minority groups as well as vulnerable populations satire becomes hate speech.
The Viral Case of Child Q Highlights the UK’s Institutional Racism
Although social media are to blame for many things, the power they have to highlight issues of social injustice cannot be compared. The case of Child Q brought to the fore a global allyship that can play an important role...
How a community radio station in Northern Kenya brings together interf...
Amid precarious living conditions a community radio station in Northern Kenya offers hope to those living in the region.
Perugia Declaration for Ukraine – 9 April 2022
Members and partners of the Global Forum for Media Development are launching a declaration at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia in solidarity with media and journalists in Ukraine. The declaration has already been signed by over 60 organisations.
Facebook Struggles with Hate Speech around Russia’s Invasion of Ukra...
The evidence of atrocities committed by the Russian army in the towns of Bucha and other locations around Kiev could not but bring about a storm of furious Facebook comments from Ukrainian users. Many are now calling for Russia to...
War in Ukraine Brings New Reality to Ukrainian Journalists
When Russia invaded Ukraine, the war brought changes for Ukrainian journalists. Anastasiia Levhenko gives a personal account of her new reality.
Trusted Flaggers raise a red flag: don’t prevent NGOs from becoming ...
Media Diversity Institute and other NGOs in the EU call MEPs and governments to not prevent NGOs from becoming Trusted Flaggers on social media.
