Source: International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) |

Migration needs better reporting: New media competition awards 35 journalists

Award ceremony to be held on 14 June in Valletta, Malta

The first edition of the Migration Media Award (www.Migration-Media-Award.eu) will award 35 journalists from 16 countries for their journalistic excellence in reporting on migration in the Euro-Mediterranean region. The winning entries feature fact-based and impartial reporting on the complexity of migration, its many challenges and opportunities. An international jury, composed…

International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD)
Source: International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) |

Towards a balanced narrative on migration

Ongoing study on migration reporting in Euro-Mediterranean region identifies major challenges / New media award to promote evidence-based journalism on migration

Media in many countries on both sides of the Mediterranean face major challenges when it comes to telling the migration story in context. This is the key finding of the ongoing study “How do media on both sides of the Mediterranean report on migration?” (www.ICMPD.org/EMM4migration_narrative) whose preliminary results will be…

Source: International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) |

ICMPD establishes Coordination and Cooperation Center for Migration in the Mediterranean

The launching in Malta reinforces the organisation’s commitment to staying a key player in migration governance

Six months after the Valletta Summit of Migration there are concerns that the Mediterranean could again be the epicentre of irregular migration-flows. With this in mind, the Foreign Minister of Malta, George Vella, and the Director General of ICMPD (International Center for Migration Policy Development) (www.ICMPD.org), Michael Spindelegger, opened the…