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What do Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Al Jazeera, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have in common?

In 2021, 2015, 1996, and 1978 respectively, they challenged the systemic barriers that structure media ecosystems by calling for the greater inclusion of marginalized peoples, perspectives, and places. All agree: the industry of world news has been integral to global racisms. Racial structures, they concluded, shape the production and distribution of world news through a combination of ignorance and/or misrepresentation.

historians, public policy analysts, digital humanists, journalists, archivists, communications scholars, students, international organization, public institutions of higher education, private-sector agency. 

historians, public policy analysts, digital humanists, journalists, archivists, communications scholars, students, international organization, public institutions of higher education, private-sector agency. 

Examining the largest organized intervention against the racial structure of global news to date.

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The Non-Aligned News Research Partnership (NANReP) examines the largest organized intervention against the racial structure of global news to date: the Non-Aligned News Agencies Pool (NANAP, 1974-1990s). Its international partnership spans three continents and seven countries to bring together historians, public policy analysts, digital humanists, journalists, archivists, communications scholars, and students, as well as an international organization, public institutions of higher education, and a private-sector agency.

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Workshop Register

2023
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Collaborative Research Workshop on the History of the New World Information and Communications Order