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This collection has its roots in an unexciting task: the graduate school exam.
Thankfully, the results themselves are nothing less than exciting – as well as diverse, detailed and endlessly thought-provoking.
The Erasmus Mundus Master's in Journalism, Media and Globalisation is a unique program that brings together journalists from every corner of the world: from New Zealand and Brazil, Norway and South Africa.
In this collection of stories, these writers broach big questions and address pressing issues, all related to either the pressures of climate change or questions of international justice.
It includes stories that will bring you to Vietnam, where local farmers are migrating to cities as their land is degraded by environmental change, and into a battle between Ethiopia and Egypt for access to the water of the Nile.
These stories will bring you to Northern Nigeria to look for the roots of Boko Haram, and across African borders to trace other militia groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola.
They will bring you to the underside of São Paulo, following a wave of vigilante justice, and to meet the activists who are fighting against child prostitution. And they will bring you to Europe, where old models of producing energy and raising food are being questioned.
In writing these stories, these journalists were told to embrace a deeper style of journalism, looking beyond news hooks and well-known conflicts to broach complex solutions. These are long stories, ideal for leisurely reading, touching on science, law and economics, and they will bring you around the world, combining the best of expert opinion and local knowledge.
In doing so, they also highlight the need for journalism that goes beyond local media and seeks out something greater: a global consciousness, and a global style of journalism.
Happy reading.
Katherine Dunn,
Editor and Mundus Student
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