Monitoring Report The Poverty Agenda in the Media

Even if the target audiences vary, print and digital media channel alike shape the perception and opinion of their readers. In the last years, parallel to the augmented poverty due to the pandemic and the economic crisis, the amount of news about poverty and methods for alleviating poverty have also increased.

In this report, we monitored the media for poverty-related news stories to analyze which prejudices were maintained, how the idea of being ‘poor’ was depicted and what discourse strategies were deployed, all while seeking to represent good examples.