Media inclusion of Indigenous peoples is increasing but there is still room for improvement
“In recent times, meaningful self-reflection by some elements of the media industry has seen improvements. However, there is still a need for greater representation of First Nations peoples’ perspectives in the media – particularly in relation to Indigenous issues.” writes Tristan Kennedy
For an Indigenous perspective on ‘Australia Day’, here’s a quick guide to First Nations media platforms
“First Nations media provide information from Indigenous communities, journalists and experts that better reflects what is happening in response to events like “Australia Day”. From community radio live broadcasts of Invasion Day speakers to NITV’s week of dedicated programming #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe, First Nations media present self-determination in action.”
Blak journalism and the Australian news media
Jack Latimore writes “Throughout much of the 20th century, language and meaning in Australia were strictly governed. Until recently, there was little awareness of the fact. Mostly because it affected Aboriginal people. You see, language and meaning are imbued with power and jurisdiction. Which is to say that language and meaning are capable of conferring, subverting – or preserving – sovereignty” …
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.
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).
Gut Punch After Gut Punch, Death After Death
Gut Punch After Gut Punch, Death After Death
Allan Clarke, Meanjin, June 7 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.
Cultural Diversity in TV News: Miriam Corowa
ABC Indigenous Journalist Miriam Corowa on Cultural Diversity in TV News and Her Personal Struggles and Triumphs’.
By Miriam Corowa, ABC, 28 August 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.
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.
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.
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.
Who Gets to Tell Australian Stories?
Who Gets to Tell Australian Stories?
Media Diversity Australia report 2020.
Indigenous Current Affairs: Reckoning: The Limits and Possibilities of Journalism Part 1 and Part 2.
Featuring First Nations Canadian journalist Candis Callison and Mary Lynn Young, co-authors of Reckoning: Journalism’s Limits and Possibilities. Media Indigena podcast, episode 214, 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.
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.