Leadership and media practice for people shaping how the world is understood.
Screenshot of Mohammad Kaif. Mohammad Kaif, a young Muslim boy from India, went viral, shutting down a reporter’s attempt to ignite hate during the ongoing India - Pakistan tensions. The journalist provoked him into speaking against Pakistan, even questioning his patriotism when he called for peace. But the boy didn’t fall for it. Calmly and confidently, … Continue reading Young people have brains
Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash With the rapidly developing climate change and the increase in climate disasters newsrooms now have special climate change reporters and sometimes even Climate Desks. How did the media report about nature before it became a problem for humanity? In the online course Ecosystem Therapy organised by the Institute for … Continue reading What is the relationship between journalism and nature?
The zozobra marionette representing anguish, anxiety and gloom is being burned every year in September in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Image from Flickr. Have you ever heard of the word 'zozobra'? It was new to me until this afternoon when I went through my notes of Naomi Klein’s book Doppelganger. She mentions ‘zozobra’ somewhere at the beginning … Continue reading How to deal with soul sickness zozobra?
Photo by Alexandra on Unsplash Goals goals goals A friend sent me a meme this week with the text “My goal in 2024 is to accomplish the goals I set in 2023 which I should have done in 2022 because I made a promise in 2021 which I planned in 2020”. I thought of it … Continue reading How can we see reality as it is in 2024?
Once in a while, I do a Google search with the word ‘decoloniality’. I learned the word one and a half years ago when I studied at the Maria Lugones Decolonial Summer School for three weeks. I believe it was Walter Mignolo who explained to us in one of his lectures why they - they … Continue reading What is decoloniality, actually?
Inclusive journalism: what is it and why should you care? The Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 reignited the call for newsroom representation, a debate that has been going on for several decades already. The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism did research among one hundred major online and offline news outlets in five … Continue reading 6 characteristics of inclusive journalism
Before attending his session at Ubud Writers and Readers Festival I didn’t know much more about Behrouz Boochani than he was ‘the author of a prize-winning book that was completely written from out of captivity using Whatsapp’. After hearing him (through Skype) and his translator Omid Tofighian speak for over an hour in a packed … Continue reading Why Behrouz Boochani doesn’t trust the language of journalism
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