Dear ‘woke’ celebrities: How to respond to criticism, and why it matters
Media Diversity Institute: Recently, the publishing world has been abuzz with Jeanine Cumming’s novel American Dirt—a novel that follows the story of a Mexican mother and her young son fleeing cartels and immigrating to the United States in a climate that highly resembles Trump’s America.
Meghan Markle, and the British media’s defensiveness around race
Media Diversity Institute: Ever since Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced their decision to step back as “senior royals,” the media has barely talked about anything else. The ‘stunning’ decision has been met by a strong sense of ‘shock’ by much of the media. But when the subject of racist coverage being a factor in the couple’s decision is raised, it is met with vitriolic defensiveness.
WATCH OUT, 2020! WHAT MEDIA TRENDS SHOULD YOU KEEP AN EYE ON?
Media Diversity Institute: The roaring twenties have just begun. We have left behind a decade where online media morphed from being about sharing holidays snaps and poking our Facebook friends, to a defining influence of global politics, social conversations and our mental and emotional wellbeing. What should we expect from the next decade?
Is There Any Way Back Now?
Local Catalans believe that Madrid’s behaviour towards Catalonia have left Spain’s richest region with no choice but to declare independence.
What is it that a human being really needs?
In a time of smartphones and private jets, where class and cultural divisions increase the distance between us, it is increasingly important to be reminded of the fundamentals that we need to survive.
8 reasons we’re proud to live in Catalonia
Matador Network: WITH the recent upsurge in vocal Catalonian independence advocates, and even more recently the ‘illegal’ referendum where two million votes were cast declaring the wish to separate from the rest of Spain — the voice of the Catalan people is beginning to be heard on the world stage. It was as good a time as any to take to the streets of Catalonia and ask the people who live here what makes them proud of this place.
Why westerners should travel to Muslim countries
Matador Network: NO PART OF THE WORLD within the last ten years has been scrutinized as much or stereotyped as heavily as the Muslim world. Although a minority of these countries have warranted the criticism, the media has unjustly painted the remaining majority as being similarly run, hateful of the west, and as places to be avoided.