by Scott Greenstone | Sep 5, 2016 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News, Intercultural and Interreligious Conflict
Kholoud Waleed had her hometown destroyed, her friends captured and her family split. The only way she could fight back was telling stories. Waleed — which is not her real last name — was the 2015 recipient of the Anna Politkovskaya Award for her bravery in reporting...
by emersonm@uoregon.edu | Aug 23, 2016 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News, Press Freedom
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – A year full of murky business dealings and unanswered questions became infinitely more horrifying for Buenos Aires newspaper Tiempo Argentino, when a gang of thugs attacked their building. Even worse, police at the scene of the crime helped...
by emersonm@uoregon.edu | Aug 23, 2016 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News, Press Freedom
Every five years since 1995, the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) publishes a report tracking the representation of women in national and world media. Although an important tool for observing world trends in gender inequality, the GMMP report is less helpful to...
by emersonm@uoregon.edu | May 24, 2016 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News
When Alex Ahredtsen, a member of the Denmark Parliament, coined the term “pizza Danish” on a local radio program, he was not testing out his idea for a new breakfast pastry, but rather enforcing his anxiety about the country’s refugee crisis. His reference to “pizza...
by Scott Greenstone | Feb 1, 2016 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News, Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue
Many Native American languages are slowly dying with the elders who speak them fluently. Kids don’t learn them in school and don’t speak them at home, and most aren’t interested in learning them. They don’t have a use anymore. Everything from movies to iPhones to...
by mollyz@uoregon.edu | Jan 31, 2016 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News
Nicky Cook, a student journalist at the University of Missouri, talks with his friend and Crossings research fellow Molly Zaninovich about what it meant to be black at a time when racial tensions ran high at the school in 2015.