Singular influence : mapping the ascent of Daisy M. Bates in popular understanding and Indigenous policy

Daisy M. Bates’s influence on Indigenous affairs has often been attributed to her once romantic legend as ‘the saviour of the Aborigines’, obscuring the impact of the powerful news media position that she commanded for decades. The ideas advanced by the news media through its reports both by and about Bates exerted a strong influence on public understanding and official policies that were devastating for Indigenous Australians and have had lasting impacts. This paper draws on Bourdieu’s tradition of field-based research to propose that Bates’s ‘singular influence’ was formed through the accumulation of ‘symbolic capital’ within and across the fields of journalism, government, Indigenous societies, and anthropology, and that it operated to reinforce and legitimate the media’s representations of Indigenous people and issues as well as government policies

Play it again, Sam : How journalists cashed in on Youtube\u27s favourite koala

The world was captivated when footage of a badly burnt koala drinking water from a Victorian firefighter\u27s bottle was uploaded to You Tube in February 2009. When the story of &quot;Sam the Koala&quot; was adopted by the mainstream media, recombinant themes were used to construct her story - from heroism and patriotism to villain vs victim and romance. While scholars have examined the changing role of the journalist in a converged world and the rise of &quot;soft&quot; news, this paper focuses on the way journalists create disjointed narratives around You Tube footage to extend a story s lifespan. We call these new narrative forms &quot;fractured fairy tale news&quot; to describe this emerging phenomenon of convergence culture. Further, we suggest that news media exploit the YouTube community for their own commercial gain and conclude that the fractured fairy tale style is a poor vehicle for the future of news.<br /

Academics, think tanks and journalists : the trouble with expert opinion, empirical evidence and bilingual education

This book reports the findings of the Australian News media and Indigenous policymaking 1988-2008 ARC Discovery Projec

Indigenous research ethics : new modes of information gathering and storytelling in journalism

Veteran Indigenous affairs reporter Tony Koch emphasises the importance of respect, trust and listening in his journalism practice. This paper draws on Koch&rsquo;s insights as well as recent scholarship on the policies and value of listening to support the proposal that Indigenous research ethics provide a concrete framework for improving media representations of Indigenous people and their access to news media. The university ethics process cannot replicate the understanding Koch has gained from 25 years of interacting with Indigenous people and their communities. However, this paper argues it provides a pathway along which journalism academics and their students can learn to engage with Indigenous people, navigate Indigenous public spheres and produce high-quality reporting that reflects Indigenous people&rsquo;s aspirations. Journalists within the academy, who are not subject to the commercial or organizational pressures of the news industry, are especially well placed to collaborate with Indigenous people to deliver new ways of conducting research and telling stories that privilege their perspectives. Koch&rsquo;s newsgathering practice demonstrates that many principals of this progressive approach are also achievable in mainstream journalism

Reciprocity and Indigenous knowledge in research

This book reports the findings of the Australian news media and indigenous policymaking 1988-2008 ARC Discovery Project

Journalists, remote Indigenous sources and cultural competence

This is the report of the Australian news media and Indigenous policymaking 1988-2008 Australian Research Council Discovery Project

It comes with the territory: \u27remote\u27 Indigenous reporting for mainstream audiences

Mainstream news coverage of &lsquo;remote&rsquo; Indigenous Australia is arguably one of the most distinctive forms of Australian journalism practice. While there has been considerable scholarly interest in news media representations of &lsquo;remote&rsquo; Indigenous people, little research has been done until now on the logic or operations of this reporting specialisation. This monograph presents a Bourdieuian analysis of the subfield based in the insights study participants offered in interviews undertaken as part of The Media and Indigenous Policy project. It analyses the reporting subfield through an investigation of the practices participants say shape the way white, mainstream journalists understand their role, its possibilities and limitations. Reporting specialists spoke of the geographical and ontological distances they have to negotiate in dealing with Indigenous and government sources, as well as the ways in which they are constrained by institutional pressures. They attribute many of the difficulties with covering &lsquo;remote&rsquo; Indigenous issues to factors linked with these physical and cultural distances