Western Media

Encounters with Palestine and the environment

These subjects take centre stage at a festival showcasing nearly 50 documentaries

Charles Leonard

9 min read

AFRICA

31 MAY 2022

Monkeypox is on the loose in Europe. So why are journalists using pictures of Africans?

Western media treats Africans as victims, villains or vectors of disease.

Tomi Oladipo

4 min read

People wait in line to receive food at a food bank on April 28, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Food banks around the nation have witnessed a surge in clients as millions of Americans have either lost jobs or seen a decline in income due to the continued closure of businesses and economic life because of the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

AMARTYA SEN

11 AUG 2020

How to report on humanitarian crises: A guide for Western journalists

The world has become a more complicated place — that doesn’t mean your reporting has to be.

Patrick Gathara

4 min read

The West’s perceptions of China hold up a mirror to its own preoccupations. More nuanced analysis is much-needed. (Anthony Wallace/AFP)

AMAZON

24 FEB 2020

Coronavirus reaction: Sinophobia with Western characteristics

Western media has racialised the coronavirus outbreak, leading to increased Sinophobia in several countries. Such dehumanisation of a race has no place in functioning democracies

Ahmed Olayinka Sule

5 min read