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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 11 November 2020 of The Conversation est. 2011 The Conversation
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Why Is the Gender Pay Gap in the Arts so Large? Widespread Discrimination Is the Most Likely Cause, David Throsby , Sunny Y. Shin , single work column
The Black Lives Matter Movement Has Provoked a Cultural Reckoning about How Black Stories Are Told, Amy Thomas , Andrew Jakubowicz , Anne Maree Payne , Heidi Norman , single work column

'When the Black Lives Matter movement re-emerged powerfully this year, it encouraged a cultural reckoning about how Black stories are told, reaching deep into Australia’s mainstream media. Once more, research showed just how unselfconsciously white Australian media is.

Our study of 45 years of mainstream print news reportage of Aboriginal self-determination found the media overwhelming reports from and assumes a white standpoint.

Published in a book titled Does the media fail Aboriginal political aspirations? 45 years of news media reporting of key political moments, our findings signal that the media’s problems go deeper than representation.

A podcast series based on the book has now been released. In this five-part series, titled Black Stories Matter, we bring together media researchers, historians, policy makers, a former Aboriginal Affairs minister and members of the growing cohort of Aboriginal journalists, to discuss how we can disrupt the negative patterns of the past.
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