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A manifesto Credit: Credit: Maria Thalassinou By Sanne Breimer Six years ago, in 2020, I wrote “The Six Characteristics of Inclusive Journalism.” It was the explanation of what I was building, in the context of renewed global debates about representation in the media following the Black Lives Matter protests. Many newsrooms at the time were grappling with … Continue reading The 3 premises of inclusive journalism (2026)
Scott Umstattd for Unsplash. Entrepreneurship can make you doubt yourself, especially when you are working on complex topics or have to relate to the global pluricrisis. I realized this again after returning from my latest ten-day meditation retreat. The silence reminded me of why I started Inclusive Journalism in the first place. Inclusive Journalism exists … Continue reading What a silent retreat taught me about leadership in journalism
Credit: Matheus Bertelli, Pexels When I read Alan Soon’s latest newsletter, this sentence immediately resonated: “I’m truly exhausted by the seemingly unevolving narratives around media and journalism.” Since the start of this year, the world has felt more chaotic than ever, an almost impossible job for media professionals to keep up with. Parallel to this, the … Continue reading AI and the new leadership test
Even though many people won’t pay much attention to it, I think it’s hard to ignore the often colourful and uniquely designed carpets in airports in Southeast Asia. It became a thing to photograph the carpets and let my Instagram followers guess which country I arrived in when I travelled regularly in 2019. In The … Continue reading Airports as non-places of inequality
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?
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