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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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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 …
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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 …
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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?](http://diversity.syntax.media/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Front-cover-image-1-365x248.jpg)
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?](http://diversity.syntax.media/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/default-365x248.jpg)
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 …
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Meghan Markle and the Press: Where is the Hate Coming From?
12 September 2019 Country: United Kingdom / Australia by: Eline Jeanné It is no secret that the British monarchy has …
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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 …
![Framing Solidarity as Terrorism: Greek Media and Refugee Squat Evictio...](http://diversity.syntax.media/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/default-365x248.jpg)
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 …
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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?](http://diversity.syntax.media/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/default-365x248.jpg)
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 …