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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Mental Health: How Do We Avoid Stigmatisation and Normalisation?
Caroline Flack’s suicide sent shockwaves across the UK, reigniting a debate about how the covers suicide and mental health. Does the media examine these issues with sensitivity? Or does it further the stigma of mental illness, complicating the media’s potential...
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Coronavirus: Keeping the “Infodemic” in Check
The Coronavirus is at the top of the news agenda around the world.
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Is Hate Speech Driving Celebrities Off Twitter?
By: Mikhail Yakovlev What does this mean for the platform’s role in artistic creation and freedom of expression? Earlier this …
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Press Harassment, IPSO’s Ineffectiveness, and Why We’re No Closer ...
What is freedom of expression? When is bullying someone in the public interest? The ethics, culture and practices of the …
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Digital Transformation and Media Diversity: Two Sides of the Same Coin
In this day and age, media outlets are frantically trying to navigate the digital transformation—the pivot to video, the shift …
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Rough Sleepers, Faceless Statistics and Misperceptions: How the Media ...
If the media reframed homelessness, could the readers who have been lucky enough not to have a personal connection to homelessness be more sympathetic?
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Training: Helping Journalists Make Youth Voices Mainstream
Training: 27 – 29 February 2020 Country: Serbia Youth rarely feel represented in the media, and youth from marginalised communities …
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Religion in the Balkan Media Landscape: Forgotten Nuance
By Jelena Jorgačević Kisić As Serbian journalist Borivoj Erdeljan mentioned in the recent debate about the Churches under Communism in former Yugoslavia, …
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MLADI: “Youth in the Media Mirror”
By: Ivana Jelača In Serbia, youth portals are the most likely to report about marginalised communities, and include more women …
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Disability in the Media: Mirroring Perceptions
People with disabilities are consistently pushed to the back of the media agenda in North Macedonia. In the rare occasion that …