In this season of the podcast, we will be focusing on different regions of the world and explore how language, and usage of certain words, in media reportage by journalists have a much deeper impact on the narrative formation and shaping of the sensibilities of the public. We will be delving deeper into journalism cultures in different parts of the world and how they function.

In our first episode, we are talking about Latin America, digging deeper into the language stereotypes that mainstream Western media propagates of unstable governments, drugs, violence, and all things wrong. 

Joining us on this episode is Dánae Vílchez. She is a Nicaraguan multimedia journalist who has extensively covered social movements and conflicts in the region and has rallied for media democracy. She has been a fellow with the International Center for Journalists and the International Women’s Media Foundation and has written for The Washington Post, Newsweek, and Pikara Magazine, among others. She is currently working with the Committee to Protect Journalists as their Central America Correspondent and also works with Open Democracy.

Producer: Shriya Roy

Host: Shriya Roy

Concept: Shriya Roy

In a world that is moving at a bullet-train pace toward globalisation, understanding the importance of journalism and the words that we use when reporting on events becomes non-negotiable. Journalistic cultures differ across borders, and often it all gets bracketed into one umbrella guided by the Western gaze. 

In this podcast, we try and demystify this very idea and try and get to the crux of the language debate. This first season of our podcast looks to explore how media reports about certain countries or regions around the world, and how words and terminology used to talk about those regions impact the larger understanding of the regions, and very often perpetuate misinformed stereotypes. We will be delving deeper into journalism cultures away from the West, in different parts of the world, looking at how they function and why giving equal importance to local newsrooms and journalists is significant!

Producer: Shriya Roy

Host: Shriya Roy

Concept: Shriya Roy