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.
Bringing More Diversity to Newsrooms
Australia’s Media Has Been Too White for Too Long. This Is How to Bring More Diversity to Newsrooms
Janak Rogers, The Conversation, July 2020.
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.
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.
News Outlets Fail Migrant Communities
Australian News Outlets Fail Migrant Communities. Here’s What Needs to Happen
Mary Tran, Screenhub Australia, October 2020.
It Dampens the Conversation
“It Dampens the Conversation”: No More Excuses for Australian Media’s Lack of Diversity
Naaman Zhou, The Guardian, 28 June 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.
