The Salzburg Academy Blog on Global Media Literacy is a resource to promote global awareness and understanding. Encouraging cross-cultural thinking about the roles media play in global affairs and public policy and to help students and faculty evaluate distinctive international media and policy models and consider their advantages and limitations. Proposing and initiating standards regarding media coverage of issues such as terrorism and climate change as well as questions on how and why do different news media send different messages and what are the roles media play in global affairs and policy are a few issues to come up on this educational blog.