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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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 …
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 …
#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 …
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?
Journalism or Nationalism?
16 September 2019 Country: US, Global by: Jean-Paul Marthoz When I wrote Objectif Bastogne (Objectif Bastogne. Sur les traces des reporters …
Three Sisters – The Khachaturyan Case, a Litmus Test for Misogyny of...
12 September 2019 Country: Russia by: Mikhail Yakovlev In Anton Chekhov’s fin-de-siècle play, three sisters “dream of a future in which …
