The change needs to come up from the top.”This month, the ABC’s flagship political program, Insiders, featured its first ever Indigenous journalist, the ABC’s Europe correspondent, Bridget Brennan. “Sadly, our newsroom does not reflect the diverse and multicultural state in which we live and work,” they wrote. #insiders #auspol pic.twitter.com/l98s5kRO0f — Insiders ABC (@InsidersABC) June 13, 2020Thorpe said it was a huge oversight that the show had never featured an Indigenous journalist before. We are diverse in ourselves.”And diversity is not an end in itself, it is a prerequisite of quality journalism. Antoinette Lattouf, a senior journalist at Channel 10 and director of Media Diversity Australia, agrees with Vatsikopoulos, saying economic pressures combine to lock out people from non-white backgrounds.

Source: The Guardian June 28, 2020 02:37 UTC