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Online/More Colour in the Media presents: the European website on minorities and the media. Online/More Colour in the Media (OL/MCM) is a network of NGO's, broadcasters, training institutes and researchers, set up to improve the representation of ethnic minorities in broadcasting.
The Online/More Colour in the Media network was established in 1997 by the partners of a transnational project, which previously had created new training and employment opportunities for people from minority communities. Since then, it has initiated projects in the fields of:
- employment and training,
- intercultural media education and career orientation,
- programme exchange,
- support of minority media,
- empowerment of minority audiences and
research.
Project activities are supervised by the Board of Trustees of the Foundation Online/More Colour in the Media. Online/More Colour in the Media has founded a European Centre of information and expertise on Media, Diversity and Society to serve as a helpdesk for media and minority organisations and facilitate European project development.
Online/More Colour in the Media and the European Centre currently facilitate several networks on specific themes of diversity in the media:
- a network of national platforms of ethnic and multicultural local radio and TV stations promotes and exchanges expertise and good practice and has developed a European Manifesto to support and underline the importance of minority community media.
- an 'empowerment' network of migrant and refugee organisations that work to achieve and influence media coverage on minority groups shares and disseminates expertise and good practice and has established a pilot 'European Day of Monitoring' in 2003/04.
These two networks are co-ordinated by a management committee of OL/MCM partners:
- Foundation Online/More Colour in the Media (the Netherlands)
- Mira Media (the Netherlands)
- Cospe (Italy)
- Dimitra I.T.D. (Greece)
- Indvandrer TV / Nordic Multiethnic Media Association (NORDSAM) (Denmark)
- University of Bradford (United Kingdom)
Furthermore, Online/More Colour in the Media:
- facilitates EquaMedia, a transnational network of employment and inclusion projects that are funded by the EC 'Equal' budget line. These projects, in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Italy and Greece, themselves each encompass a network of many organisations and institutions and all focus on improving a fair and equal representation and participation of minorities in the media;
- coordinates Cream, a transnational project that promotes creative and practical media education activities and career orientation events in cooperation with the media industry. Cream aims to create intercultural methodologies and structures for guidance and counseling to introduce more students of ethnic miniorty origin into media professions in more causal and informal ways.
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