The New Norm: Human Rights Stories at the Renewed Nanook Journalism Platform
Dokumedija ·Lithuania
About this project
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #606060"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, sans-serif">The images that media create affect how society thinks and treats people. According to Lithuanian Ethnic Research center (2019), 63% of Lithuanian citizens would not want to live next to a Romani neighbor, 35% would not want to live next to a Muslim. 22% have said that they would not want to work with a colleague, who is gay or lesbian.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #606060"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, sans-serif">With the “New Norm” project we aim to create a media platform where human rights are important. </span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #606060"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, sans-serif">We aim to reach out to smaller cities and towns in Lithuania; we want to renew our online presence; we plan to change the name of our media platform to make it more connected with local context. We believe that Lithuania needs human rights-oriented media and we have knowledge and energy to provide it.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #606060"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, sans-serif">In order to do that we are applying to the Active Citizens Fund. In three years during the project, we commit to:</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #606060"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, sans-serif">- Regularly publish new NYLA podcast documentaries and multimedia stories covering human rights issues in Lithuania;</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #606060"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, sans-serif">- Publish op-eds by people who have been discriminated against in Lithuania to share their first person experiences;</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #606060"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, sans-serif">- Build ties with journalists working in smaller towns in Lithuania and work together with them to share human rights stories from different parts of Lithuania;</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #606060"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, sans-serif">- Share Nanook’s pieces for free with regional media in Lithuania;</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #606060"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, sans-serif">- Organize public debates in small towns and bigger cities in Lithuania on the different topics of human rights.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #606060"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, sans-serif">Our hope is that they will be willing to participate in defending human rights in their own personal lives.</span></span></span></p>