HOW THE MEDIA NEEDS TO REFRAME BRITAIN’S HOMELESSNESS CRISIS
Jeremy Ullmann Jeremy Ullmann

HOW THE MEDIA NEEDS TO REFRAME BRITAIN’S HOMELESSNESS CRISIS

If you have recently read an article, or watched a news broadcast about homelessness, chances are that you haven’t been shown real people, or heard their individual stories. Instead, you’ve read numbers and statistics, and perhaps seen generic images of people sleeping in tents on city streets. Does this impact the way we relate to some of the most vulnerable people in our society?

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MEGHAN MARKLE, AND THE BRITISH MEDIA’S DEFENSIVENESS AROUND RACE
Jeremy Ullmann Jeremy Ullmann

MEGHAN MARKLE, AND THE BRITISH MEDIA’S DEFENSIVENESS AROUND RACE

Ever since Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced their decision to step back as “senior royals,” the media has barely talked about anything else. The ‘stunning’ decision has been met by a strong sense of ‘shock’ by much of the media. But when the subject of racist coverage being a factor in the couple’s decision is raised, it is met with vitriolic defensiveness.

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WATCH OUT, 2020! WHAT MEDIA TRENDS SHOULD YOU KEEP AN EYE ON?
Jeremy Ullmann Jeremy Ullmann

WATCH OUT, 2020! WHAT MEDIA TRENDS SHOULD YOU KEEP AN EYE ON?

The roaring twenties have just begun. We have left behind a decade where online media morphed from being about sharing holidays snaps and poking our Facebook friends, to a defining influence of global politics, social conversations and our mental and emotional wellbeing. What should we expect from the next decade?

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Is There Any Way Back Now?
Jeremy Ullmann Jeremy Ullmann

Is There Any Way Back Now?

Local Catalans believe that Madrid’s behaviour towards Catalonia have left Spain’s richest region with no choice but to declare independence.

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What is it that a human being really needs?
Jeremy Ullmann Jeremy Ullmann

What is it that a human being really needs?

In a time of smartphones and private jets, where class and cultural divisions increase the distance between us, it is increasingly important to be reminded of the fundamentals that we need to survive.

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8 reasons we’re proud to live in Catalonia
Jeremy Ullmann Jeremy Ullmann

8 reasons we’re proud to live in Catalonia

WITH the recent upsurge in vocal Catalonian independence advocates, and even more recently the ‘illegal’ referendum where two million votes were cast declaring the wish to separate from the rest of Spain — the voice of the Catalan people is beginning to be heard on the world stage. It was as good a time as any to take to the streets of Catalonia and ask the people who live here what makes them proud of this place.

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Why westerners should travel to Muslim countries
Jeremy Ullmann Jeremy Ullmann

Why westerners should travel to Muslim countries

NO PART OF THE WORLD within the last ten years has been scrutinized as much or stereotyped as heavily as the Muslim world. Although a minority of these countries have warranted the criticism, the media has unjustly painted the remaining majority as being similarly run, hateful of the west, and as places to be avoided.

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