M100 Youth Media Workshop 2009 in Potsdam (Germany)

How do European media report about migration and immigrants? How do immigrants influence the media? These and other pressing issues were debated at the fifth M100 Youth Media Workshop in Potsdam from 3 to 7 September 2009. Through study-visits, meetings and hands-on media creation 27 young European journalists from 15 different countries engaged in the discussion.

More information: www.m100potsdam.org

The articles

• Who watches the watchers?

  15.11.2008

  With mainstream media becoming increasingly bogged down in accusations of distortion, dirty dealing and downright dishonesty, Patricia Curmi wonders where the voices of minorities can be heard in European media.[more]

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• Muslim for a day

  08.09.2009

  How does it feel to be a Muslim woman in Germany? Cristiana Moisescu wanted to find out and put on a Muslim headscarf or hijab for a day, hoping to notice people’s reaction. The result was most surprising.[more]

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• “The media are the mirror of society”

  08.09.2009

  Everyone will agree on the importance of diversity in the media. But why exactly? Orangelog talked to Mekonnen Mesghena, Head of Migration, Citizenship and Diversity department of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Germany.[more]

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• Integration or disintegration?

  08.09.2009

  Walking in the streets of the multi-cultural Berlin district of Kreuzberg you feel like you could be in Turkey, India or China. Wherever you want, in fact, except in ‘stereotypical Germany’.[more]

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• Lessons from the M100 Youth Media Workshop

  08.09.2009

  At the M100 Youth Media Workshop, 27 young people from all over Europe explored the topic “migration and media” for three days. We asked them to name one lesson they learned during the event.[more]

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• Can you spell in-te-gra-tion?

  08.09.2009

  Germany becomes ‘home’ to many people who come here from all corners of the world. Some learn German, some don’t. Yet they all learn from their experiences. These are the irregular verbs that best describe the...[more]

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• Four days in Berlin: a multicultural injection

  08.09.2009

  A cute cosmopolitan city where everybody can find their place: that was my impression of Berlin after four days of working, walking, talking to people and just looking around in the German capital.[more]

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