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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 …

“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 …

Twitter Claims It is Cracking Down on Hate Speech. But is All Hate Spe...
23 July 2019 Country: Global by: Giulia Dessi Over the past few months, major social media platforms such as Facebook …

How Not To Report on Climate Change
23 July 2019 Country: United Kingdom by: Eline Jeanné It seems that climate change is finally becoming a mainstream issue. …

Announcement: Rose-Marie Farinella Awarded Top Honour in France
Media and Information Literacy Educator Rose-Marie Farinella is being honoured with the “Legion of Honour” award this week, the highest …

Indian Journalist Vinod K Jose Asks #DefendMediaFreedom Organizers To ...
17 July 2019 Country: United Kingdom At the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s conference on International Media Freedom earlier this month, …

Event: Religion and the Media: Telling the Untold Story
Date: 10-11 July 2019 Country: UK Last week, Media Diversity Institute was honored to join the Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s …

Is the Far Right’s Crackdown on Gender Studies A Threat to Democracy...
Date: 11 July 2019 Country: Europe by: Mikhail Yakovlev Last year, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban became the first European …