Lessons from Afghanistan — Keeping journalists safe and promoting the youth in media
Accra, Ghana — The safety of journalists around the world was a prevalent theme at the 2018 World Press Freedom Day in Accra, Ghana. Posted around the conference hotel were posters featuring the faces of journalists killed in action, drawn in pencil, paint and...
UNESCO Chair Steven Shankman’s Work in India
As UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace, I helped establish a new research committee of the International Comparative Literature Association on ethics, religion, and literature. The Comparative Literature Association of India...
UNESCO World Press Freedom Day in Riga
The Crossings Institute is traveling to Riga in May with four University of Oregon students who will produce podcasts of World Press Freedom Day events there and post them on the Crossings site. Headquarters for the conference is the new National Library in Riga:...
This Weekend: Podcasting Workshops
The Crossings Institute, which is developing podcasts as its primary outreach tool, is hosting podcaster Peter B. Collins at the SOJC this Friday and Saturday (February 6 & 7, 2015) for seminars and workshops. Collins will discuss his transition from broadcast...
World Press Freedom Day 2014
Since its creation by the United Nations in 1993, the UNESCO community has celebrated World Press Freedom Day annually as an occasion to celebrate free press and to critically examine the ways and places in which there is still work to be done. This year’s...DON’T MISS A STORY
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