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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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#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?
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 …
Meghan Markle and the Press: Where is the Hate Coming From?
By Eline Jeanné It is no secret that the British monarchy has a certain power over the public; whether that …
Framing Solidarity as Terrorism: Greek Media and Refugee Squat Evictio...
13 September 2019 Country: Greece by: Marianna Karakoulaki In the early hours of 26 August 2019 Greek police officers stormed …
Sarajevo’s First-Ever Pride Gets Dismissed as “Shame Parade” by ...
Threats, insults and rejection prior to the first-ever pride march in Bosnia and Herzegovina, topped with protests and ignorance, are mirrored not challenged in Bosnian media.
What Can Google Searches Tell Us About Cultural Appropriation?
29 August 2019 Country: Global by: Anna Lekas Miller It is starting to feel like there is always a cultural …
