Title: Why diversity in media matters - Coppieters Foundation
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Content: 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. By failing to reflect the diversified structures of societies and by fueling misrepresentations of “others”, media outlets feed the social distance that already separates different groups. When a given minority or disadvantaged group is portrayed in the media in a positive light, stereotypes can be dismantled, and this is especially important for younger generations who are more directly exposed to this. Photos from the 2018 summer school on national minorities and border regions, co-organised by Coppieters Foundation and ECMI, where Pilar Kaltzada delivered her presentation on diversity and media. Can diversity in media be measured? In one of the most frequently cited classifications, Philip Napoli makes the basic distinction between diversity in structure, content and exposure.