Addressing deficit reporting is more than just telling positive stories
Luke Pearson writes “Deficit discourse is not synonymous with ‘negative stories’. … It is the lens through which Indigenous people and stories are viewed, so even a story focussed on success can still engage in a deficit discourse.”
IndigenousX
“IndigenousX champions voices from our communities through analysis, commentary, and public interest journalism.”
While On-Screen Diversity Is Important, What Happens Offscreen Is Paramount
Laura Murphy-Oates writes While On-Screen Diversity Is Important, What Happens Offscreen Is Paramount: “We need leaders on all levels who understand the importance of representation in the media, because they themselves have shouldered the burden of representation and wish to make a world where others of non-Anglo heritage see themselves on and off screen. The consequences of doing otherwise are stark. August 2020.
We Must Build upon the Foundations of Black Media
Amy McQuire writes We Must Build upon the Foundations of Black Media: “Wouldn’t it be great to have a Black media space that is not seen as just a beginning, but as an end? The power of Black media is not just in the ability to report on Aboriginal issues without the oversight of white people who want to control the narrative, but in its accountability”. July 2020.
Media and White Blinkers
Jack Gibson writes Media and White Blinkers: “We are told that Aunty ABC is the impartial perspective, the media source that will show us the truth but all too often Aunty ABC disappoints. This time – the reporting of the devastation being experienced by Walpiri mob is reprehensible”. November 2019.
Inspired by young blackfullas making media for black audiences
Tarneen Onus-Williams writes I was inspired by young blackfullas making media for black audiences: She writes about her involvement with the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance collective, and the influence of the Blackfella Revolution Facebook page and the power of Black Nations Rising magazine. March 2018.
We must listen to Indigenous voices
Tristan Kennedy writes We must listen to Indigenous voices. Social media is a good place to start: “January is increasingly becoming a time for fierce debate about Indigenous identities and Australian nationhood. And each year the debate is gathering more attention. Indigenous voices, especially on social media, are getting louder”. February 2018.
5 figures in the history of First Nations Media you should know about
Jack Latimore highlights Five figures in the history of First Nations Media you should know about: featuring profiles of John Newfong, Dot West, Tiga Bayles, Bruce McGuinness, Gavin Jones, as well as links to other First Nations media pioneers Jack Patten, Merv Bishop, Ross Watson, Bill Thaiday, Thomas Brune, and Walter George Arthur. March 2018.
Strong, black women to highlight the positive stories we share
Tess Ryan writes about Strong, black women to highlight the positive stories we share: on challenging deficit discourse, and positive stories of strong black women that she writes about in her work. “This demonstrates an emergence of power and influence that does not fit in with the deficit stories that are brought by the mainstream media”. August 2017.
A lack of Indigenous Voices
Jack Latimore writes about A lack of Indigenous voices is turning blackfellas off old media: “There are more blackfellas working in media than a few decades ago but real change will come from true diversity and seniority, not token appointments”. November 2016.
Indigenous media is crucial to the Australian landscape
Emily Nicol writes Indigenous media is crucial to the Australian landscape and it needs to be self-sufficient. September 2015.
Disrupting the Master Narrative: Indigenous People and Tweeting Colonial History
Disrupting the Master Narrative: Indigenous People and Tweeting Colonial History
Bronwyn Carlson, Griffith REVIEW 64: New Disruptors (2019).
Covering Black Deaths Led This Aboriginal Journalist to a Breakdown
Allan Clarke writes about the costs for First Nations journalists in the media reporting on stories that impact them and their communities. ABC online, June 2020.
Remaking Our Newsrooms
Remaking Our Newsrooms
On the experience of Aboriginal journalists working within mainstream news organisations: “We are told to remain impartial, to be unbiased; essentially, to be white”, writes Madeline Hayman-Reber. The Saturday Paper, 18 July 2020.
Remote Indigenous Media Festival
Remote Indigenous Media Festival
IndigenousX, 27 September 2019.
Jumping the Gate
On the history and achievements of IndigenousX, including shifting the debate around Recognise campaign and constitutional recognition; Indigenous new media interventions. Quotes Celeste Liddle: “The ability for us to create spaces for our own voices using these online platforms was the key starting point”. By Luke Pearson, Inside Story. 23 August 2017.
Black Witness: Reading Ida B Wells in this place
Journalist Amy McQuire on the strong tradition of black journalism both in Australia and overseas.
Black and White Witness
Darambul and South Sea Islander journalist Amy McQuire exposes the white norms that underpin news reporting, and specifically the way ‘Aboriginal affairs’ is reported in Australian mainstream and public media by non-Indigenous journalists and media commentators. Amy McQuire 2019, Meanjin, 17 June 2019.
Nothing about us, without us
Nothing about us, without us. That's why we need Indigenous-owned media
Luke Pearson about the importance of IndigenousX, The Guardian, August 2015.
A Cultural Reckoning about How Black Stories Are Told
The Black Lives Matter Movement Has Provoked a Cultural Reckoning about How Black Stories Are Told
Amy Thomas, Andrew Jakubowicz, Anne Maree Payne, and Heidi Norman, The Conversation, November 2020.