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Mental Health: How Do We Avoid Stigmatisation and Normalisation?

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 impa...

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Press Harassment, IPSO’s Ineffectiveness, and Why We’re No Closer ...

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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Rough Sleepers, Faceless Statistics and Misperceptions: How the Media ...

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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Berlin: New Neighbours Media Training for CSOs

Berlin: New Neighbours Media Training for CSOs

Dates: 10-12 October 2019 Location: Berlin, Germany Media Diversity Institute (MDI) recently completed the fourth New Neighbors media training for …

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Madrid: New Neighbours Media Training for CSOs

Madrid: New Neighbours Media Training for CSOs

Media Diversity Institute (MDI) recently completed the third New Neighbors media training for CSOs, bringing together eleven participants in Madrid, Spain.

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Missing The Story: How the Indonesian Media Covers the Student Protest...

Missing The Story: How the Indonesian Media Covers the Student Protest...

14 October 2019 Country: Indonesia By: Yearry Panji Setianto Last month, thousands of students across Indonesia took to the streets …

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Fake News, Cultural Appropriation and Security: A New Year on the MA D...

Fake News, Cultural Appropriation and Security: A New Year on the MA D...

14 October 2019 Country: UK by: Eline Jeanné Students on the Diversity and the Media MA course have just wrapped …

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Naga Munchetty is Back On Air, But Questions About Diversity Still Rem...

Naga Munchetty is Back On Air, But Questions About Diversity Still Rem...

3 October 2019 Country: UK By: Anna Lekas Miller Most of the world can agree that Donald Trump’s now infamous …

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#VeloSinEtiquetas: Breaking Stereotypes Around the Hijab

#VeloSinEtiquetas: Breaking Stereotypes Around the Hijab

Earlier this month, MDI’s “New Neighbours” partner Al Fanar Foundation for Arab Knowledge launched a campaign called, “Velos Enquietas” or …

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Sarajevo’s First-Ever Pride Gets Dismissed as “Shame Parade” by ...

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.

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How Not To Report on Climate Change

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. …

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Event: Religion and the Media: Telling the Untold Story

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 …

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