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Media Literacy Training Can Truly Empower Youth
November 21, 2018 Country: Jordan Over the weekend, Media Diversity Institute (MDI) participated in a seminar titled, “Support to Media …

Steve Bannon: To Platform, Or Not To Platform
19 November 2018 Countries: United Kingdom By: Mikhail Yakovlev Every year, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) organizes NewsXchange, a conference …

#WalkAway: How the US Media Ignores Conservative Minorities
17 November 2018 Country: United States By: Safiya Ahmed “Once upon a time I was a liberal,” Brandon Straka, a …

Can Brazilians Use Internet Humor and Memes to Fight Bolsonaro’s...
16 November 2018 Country: Brazil By Andréa Doyle As Brazilians, we are dead serious about our memes. Last year we …

Report: Serbian Media Regularly Violates Serbian Journalists’ Co...
Published: 15 November 2018 Country: Serbia Every tenth newspaper story about children violates the Serbian Journalists’ Code of Ethics, a …

Rod Liddle’s Track Record of Hate
8 November 2018 Countries: United Kingdom By Eline Jeanne Last month, Sunday Times columnist Rod Liddle came under fire for …

This Year’s Central Asia Human Rights Festival Focuses on Diversity
1 November 2018 Region: Central Asia By Mikhail Yakovlev Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan will host the 12th annual Central Asia Human Rights …

The Deadly Consequences of Hate Speech
30 October 2018 Countries: US, Worldwide By: Anna Lekas Miller Many in the Jewish community’s worst nightmare came to life …

Report Back: #GlobalMILWeek
29 October 2018 Country: Lithuania Last week, Media Diversity Institute (MDI) Executive Director Milica Pesic participated in the Global Media …

Black History is British History
Published: 25 October 2018 Region: UK by Safiya Ahmed It is that time of the year that we fill our …