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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Missing voices: The UK media’s asylum coverage ignores some stories,...
By Anna Scott People watched from hotel windows this summer as demonstrators gathered below, calling for their deportation from the …
Free Speech in peril?
Is free speech under attack more in the UK or the US? That was a question for President Donald Trump …
Media portrayal of Serbia’s LGBTIQ community
How the media represents young queer people in Serbia was discussed at an event as part of Pride Week in …
Journalism in Peril: The Gaza Genocide as a Global Test of Press Fre...
In Gaza, it isn’t only civilians that are being laid to ruin; the freedom to tell the story of its people is being muzzled by successive Israeli strikes targeting and killing Palestinian journalists.
Action on Gaza
More than 200 media outlets, journalists, and press freedom organisations, including MDI, united on 1 September for a day of …
A Tribute to Veronique Mistiaen
A good friend, a brilliant journalist who championed human rights and humanitarian issues, and a wonderful media trainer – that’s …
Is Diversity Under Attack in Japan?
By Tanya Sakzewski Immigration was a key issue in Japan’s July elections for the upper house after the far-right Sanseito party …
Does the location of a news outlet determine how it frames global cris...
By Mahsa Rahimi At first glance, the answer to that question might seem obvious. A media outlet located in Europe …
How Belgian Migration Trade Unions are (and aren’t) Supporting Youth...
By Dea Bakashvili, a YoCoJoin reporter “Rather than being helped to continue my professional development, I was made to feel …
Saving the Diversity of Media in the Age of AI
By Luc Steinberg, Head of Operations, Media Diversity Institute Global The 20th Internet Governance Forum (IGF), convened by the United …
