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Missing The Story: How the Indonesian Media Covers the Student Protest...

Missing The Story: How the Indonesian Media Covers the Student Protest...

14 October 2019 Country: Indonesia By: Yearry Panji Setianto Last month, thousands of students across Indonesia took to the streets …

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Fake News, Cultural Appropriation and Security: A New Year on the MA D...

Fake News, Cultural Appropriation and Security: A New Year on the MA D...

14 October 2019 Country: UK by: Eline Jeanné Students on the Diversity and the Media MA course have just wrapped …

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MDI Team at UNESCO MIL Conference 2019

MDI Team at UNESCO MIL Conference 2019

Dates: 24 – 26 September 2019 Country: Sweden, Gothenburg At this year’s UNESCO Global Media and Information literacy conference, Media …

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Naga Munchetty is Back On Air, But Questions About Diversity Still Rem...

Naga Munchetty is Back On Air, But Questions About Diversity Still Rem...

3 October 2019 Country: UK By: Anna Lekas Miller Most of the world can agree that Donald Trump’s now infamous …

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Blackout in Kashmir: How Competing Narratives Obscure Human Tragedy 

Blackout in Kashmir: How Competing Narratives Obscure Human Tragedy 

1 October 2019 Country: India By: Mehboob Jeelani On the evening of August 4, my cousin called me from Kashmir …

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Serbian Pride: Media Is Still Failing to Educate Public on LGBTQ+ Righ...

Serbian Pride: Media Is Still Failing to Educate Public on LGBTQ+ Righ...

30 September 2019 Country: Serbia By: Ivana Jovanovic It is no secret that the way the media reports an event …

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OSCE Releases “Freedom of Religion or Belief and Security”...

OSCE Releases “Freedom of Religion or Belief and Security”...

24 September 2019 Country: Global Earlier this month, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) released the Freedom …

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How Do You Draw the Lines of Cultural Appropriation When Everyone “I...

How Do You Draw the Lines of Cultural Appropriation When Everyone “I...

19 September 2019 Country: Brazil by: Sofia Ferreira Santos Brazilian singer Anitta sparked an international debate when she released a …

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#BreakingTheBinary: Guns or Mental Illness?

#BreakingTheBinary: Guns or Mental Illness?

19 September 2019 Country: United States by: Anna Lekas Miller Every time a mass shooting occurs, a familiar narrative plays …

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The Tide Has Turned for the RNLI—But Britain’s Xenophobic Media Re...

The Tide Has Turned for the RNLI—But Britain’s Xenophobic Media Re...

17 September 2019 Country: United Kingdom by: Anna Lekas Miller Earlier this week, Britain’s anti-immigrant rightwing readership had a field …

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