Gut Punch After Gut Punch, Death After Death
Gut Punch After Gut Punch, Death After Death
Allan Clarke, Meanjin, June 7 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.
Riot or Resistance?
Riot or Resistance? How Media Frames Unrest in Minneapolis Will Shape Public’s View of Protest
Kilgo, Danielle K. n.d. The Conversation, May 2020.
Lack of Diversity in Black Lives Matter Coverage
Lack of Diversity in Black Lives Matter Coverage: “A Monolithic Cultural Background and Colour”’
The lack of media diversity in Australia has been highlighted with the recent coverage of the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States and Australia. By Ahmed Yussuf for The Feed, SBS, June 2020.
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.
SBS Staff Urge Leadership Change as Former Journalists Air Claims of Racism
SBS Staff Urge Leadership Change as Former Journalists Air Claims of Racism.
Amanda Meade and Naaman Zhou, The Guardian, 30 June 2020.
Racial Diversity on Melbourne Press Club’s All-White Board
More than 100 Journalists Call for Racial Diversity on Melbourne Press Club’s All-White Board
Brittney Rigby, Mumbrella, July 2020.
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.
We Will Disrupt Racism in Media
Strong 'blak' voices are deeply embedded in the media and are challenging the sector, on many fronts. Biased and discriminatory reporting will be powerfully challenged, on the streets and on our devices. By Karen Wyld, NITV. 16 January 2019.
Why “whitewashing” in the Australian media must end
Every few weeks, there's another 'whitewashing' scandal keeping people of colour firmly on the margins of society. It's no wonder public episodes of bigotry in our media are on repeat, writes Ruby Hamad, as Australia’s default is currently set to white. SBS online, August 2016.
Australia’s Media Have Systematically Thwarted Aboriginal Aspirations
Amy Thomas, Andrew Jakubowicz, and Heidi Norman, The Guardian, June 2020.
