From keeping students connected to their schooling during the pandemic to helping coordinate clean up efforts after floods, Indigenous media does more than just report on what’s happening.

The Guardian Australia’s Indigenous Affairs editor, Lorena Allam, explains the work of Indigenous media during times of crisis. She explains how The Guardian’s approach to reporting the outbreak of COVID-19 in Indigenous communities in western New South Wales put the government on notice about vaccination rates. But at the same time, mainstream news too often fell into victim-blaming.

Blak Bias is a collaboration between IndigenousX, the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and 2SER Radio. It has been made possible with the support of the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas (JNI).

Co-hosts: Rhianna Patrick and Madeline Hayman-Reber. Produced, edited and mixed by Marlene Even at 2SER Radio.

More Information: Above and Beyond: A study of First Nations media and the COVID-19 pandemic - https://apo.org.au/node/316152

Tile artwork: "Buldyan" (Grandfather) 2018 by Shannon Foster. Commissioned for the Centre for the Advancement of Indigenous Knowledges at University Technology Sydney (UTS). 

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