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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
#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 …
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 …
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 …
Have Young Brits and American Stopped Reading the Papers? And, Why?
Earlier this year, the Reuters Institute for Study of Journalism at Oxford University published a report titled “How Young People Consume News.” Are its finding as apocalyptic as all the hype in the conventional media leads us to believe?
