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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 …

LGBTQ+ Creators Are Suing YouTube for Discrimination. Here is Why It M...
21 August 2019 Country: Global by: Anna Lekas Miller How do you know you’re in love? “You’re willing to try …

How Do Media Representations Help and Hurt Women in India?
15 August 2019 Country: India by: Mikhail Yakovlev During the last week of July, a lorry rammed into a car …

A Tale of Misinformation: Deforestation of the Amazon in Five Tweets
15 August 2019 Country: Brazil by Andréa Doyle Cultural tip: To learn a bit more about Amazonia I strongly suggest …

New Project, Countering Cyberbulllying Around the World
12 August 2019 Country: Global The Media Diversity Institute Global (MDI Global) is excited to announce FACE, a new project …

We Are Cracking Down On Discrimination in the Press. So Why Are Trans ...
12 August 2019 Country: UK by: Mikhail Yakovlev When Garry Jones became editor-in-chief at the Daily and Sunday Express, he …

Greta Thunberg: The Climate Change Activist Vilified by the Media
7 August 2019 Country: Global by: Eline Jeanné If you have been following news related to climate change in recent …

“Merely” A White Supremacist: How The Media Is Missing the Story o...
6 August 2019 Country: Worldwide by Jean-Paul Marthoz Last Sunday’s New York Times editorial got right to the point: We …

Study: Are Journalists Today’s Coal Miners?
Date: 2 August 2019 Country: UK, Germany, Sweden The Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford recently published a report …

Event: Media Diversity Institute at the Ministerial on Religious Freed...
Event: 10 – 11 July 2019 Country: United States; Global Between the dates of 10-11 July 2019, Media Diversity Institute …