SBS Seemed like a Miracle, Then I Realised It Was Not a Place for People Who Looked like Me
SBS Seemed like a Miracle, Then I Realised It Was Not a Place for People Who Looked like Me
Nick Bhasin, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 July 2020.
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.
New Research Shows How Australia’s Newsrooms Are Failing Minority Communities
New Research Shows How Australia’s Newsrooms Are Failing Minority Communities
Usha Rodrigues, Michael Niemann, and Yin Paradies, The Conversation, October 2018.
Sweatshop on SBS Voices
SBS Voices is an online platform devoted to contributing a raft of diverse viewpoints on national and international conversations. As part of that commitment, they entered into a formal partnership with Sweatshop in 2018 to support our ever-growing ensemble of writers. Sweatshop provides editorial support and mentoring for each writer in the lead up to publication on the site.
Diversity in the Media
Journalist, radio presenter, and producer, Nicola Joseph discusses with Areej Nur the need for diversity within our media and Media Diversity Australia’s recent report that outlined how behind our country’s media landscape is when it comes to representation.
Decentring White Privilege
Panel discussion bringing together community broadcasting practitioners and researchers, both academic and community-based, to engage in candid and critical discussions on decolonisation and decentring whiteness in community media.
Indigenous Representation in News
First Nations journalists, be it as industry professionals or citizen journalists, are the best placed source to report and advise on Indigenous Australia, says Jack Latimore. But they are still underrepresented in mainstream media. Social media and new digital channels are starting to change that. From Not just news to us presented at the Melbourne Knowledge Week. Broadcast on Big Ideas, ABC Radio National, 2018.
A Media Reckoning
Co-hosts Sara Khan and Darren Lesaguis are joined by NITV journalist and Walpiri woman Rachael Hocking to discuss racism within media organisations, and those who have come forward to call out racism against Indigenous people and people of colour working in media and news organisations, and more broadly.
Towards Accountability
As more people than ever before begin to grapple with systemic racism around the world, we’re seeing organisations, institutions and even entire industries being rightly held accountable for their racist past and present. Race Matters (ep 63), FBi radio, July 2020.
Unpacking Bla(c)kness in Audio
This Audiocraft recording brings together a panel of Aboriginal, African and Islander voices to critique podcast structures past and present, and explore how we might break through these to make space for underserved and underrepresented voices.
Unfinished Business: Disrupt the Narrative - Media
Rhianna Patrick and Luke Pearson from IndigenousX discuss the importance of Indigenous participation in the media and how media platforms can be used to challenge and disrupt stereotypes.