Australia’s media has been too white for too long. This is how to bring more diversity to newsrooms

The case for a more diverse and representative media should be clear by now - it’s been made time and time again.

But it’s instructive to take stock every now and then. Over the last month alone, we’ve seen a number of clear examples of why greater diversity in media matters:

the all-white, 20-seat Melbourne Press Club board failing to elect a single person of colour in recent elections

ABC’s Insiders being criticised for having no people of colour on the program for the last ten years (something it finally rectified by inviting on Triple J’s political reporter Shalailah Medhora and the ABC’s first-ever Indigenous foreign correspondent, Bridget Brennan)

Read more: https://theconversation.com/australias-media-has-been-too-white-for-too-long-this-is-how-to-bring-more-diversity-to-newsrooms-141602