Beauty Redefined: Girls and Body Image

The Girl Scout Research Institute's latest survey, Beauty Redefined: Girls and Body Image (2010), demonstrates that many girls consider the body image sold by the fashion industry unrealistic, creating an unattainable model of beauty.

Covering Haiti: When the Media Is the Disaster

Rebecca Solnit, author of A Paradise Built in Hell takes a look at the media's coverage of the Haiti's January earthquake.

Unfree Market

In 2008, trafficking of the world’s 27 million slaves made up the third-most-profitable criminal enterprise. Here’s what the $40-billion industry looks like.

Journalists beware: CPJ names ten worst countries to be a blogger

In a new report issued to mark World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, the Committee to Protect Journalists named the ten worst countries in the world to be a blogger.

Obama's social enterprise report card

With President Obama's recent 100 day milestone came a hailstorm of evaluations from media outlets around the world. On the Social Edge blog, Americans for Informed Democracy founder Seth Green weighed in by taking a look at Obama's advances in the realm of social entrepreneurship.

Eyes wide open: Sexualizing young girls?

I'm not going to add any commentary to this post just yet. I'd like to solicit your thoughts first.

For Discussion: Being black and traveling overseas

How differently are black Americans perceived while traveling abroad?

On the 16 December 2008 edition of her News & Notes show, Farai Chideya spoke with George Davis, president of Davis Broadband Group, an international media and entertainment consultancy, and Cheryl Grills, chair of the psychology department at Loyola Marymount University about their perceptions of how African Americans are received while traveling in Mumbai and on the African continent.

For Discussion: Race perceptions in the workplace

When you go to work, do you change how you talk to people and present yourself?