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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Challenging the Sexist Serbian Media
By: Ivana Jovanovic If someone is familiar with Serbian media, it is likely no surprise that women are most likely …
Exploiting the Closest “Enemy”: How Hungary’s State Media Takeov...
15 October 2019 Country: Hungary By: Mikhail Yakovlev Stuck behind the Iron Curtain for the better part of the latter …
Black History Month: Is Blackfishing A Sinister, Millennial Form Of Bl...
15 October 2019 Country: Global by: Sofia Ferreira Santos By now, most of the world can agree that “Blackface” is …
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 …
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 …
