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Why diversity in media matters
Pilar Kaltzada reflects on why diversity in media matters
News / 31.10.18
In dark times of economic downturn, conflict, climate change, poverty and inequality, people need hope and journalism has the potential to provide it. Stories told with style – as well as respecting press freedom and diversity – can help people better understand the complex world in which we live. There is an ever greater need for journalism to break down walls of prejudice and ignorance, and to regulate some of our undemocratic tendencies. This is not an easy task in the age of the Internet and globalisation. Media actors are currently bewildered. Converging technologies have changed the way journalists work, and previously profitable market models no longer deliver rich returns. Employers are cutting back on costs, creating precarious jobs where high standards of journalism are increasingly difficult to achieve. Media is also a loudspeaker that magnifies power relations, and it can either reinforce or expose those who have political and social power. Diversity in the media is, more than a matter of professional ethics, a matter of questioning that given power. Diversity in media matters because it brings attention to an otherwise underrepresented community and gives a voice to the otherwise voiceless.