Parachute Journalism

Fondren, Elisabeth; Hamilton, Jean A.; McCune, Meghan Menard

doi:10.1002/9781118841570.iejs0178

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“…A lack of personal, first-hand experience with Indigenous Australian peoples and cultures can also increase the reliance on existing stereotypes of Indigenous Australians, including common portrayals as criminals, protesters or victims (Thomson et al 2015;Mason et al 2018). Further, institutional forces that impose barriers caused by professional news values and routines impact what can be covered and how (Fondren et al 2019;). An example of this is the parachute journalism that occurs when insufficient time and background knowledge lead to artificial story beginnings and endings being imposed and to shallow and surface-level coverage.…”

Section: News Representations Of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islande...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Indigenous knowledges and perspectives in university journalism education: Exploring experiences, challenges and opportunities

Thomson

McLaughlin

King-Smith

et al. 2022

Australian Journalism Review

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News media coverage of Indigenous Australian peoples and perspectives is often absent or, when present, unfair or shallow in context or understanding. This raises the question of how much – and what kind of – exposure to Indigenous knowledges and perspectives journalists-in-training receive in their university studies. To find out, this study analyses 30 unit outlines and assessment details of journalism subjects at three Australian universities. It follows this analysis with interviews of seventeen undergraduate journalism students at these universities to explore their perceptions of if and how their journalism programmes paid attention to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander topics and perspectives in the classroom setting. The results reveal that the journalism students in this sample, even those from the same university, had an uneven experience related to Indigenous knowledges and perspectives in their university journalism subjects. This testifies to the generic nature of unit outlines and learning objectives and to the broad discretionary power that individual tutors and lecturers have to shape the flow of information that is engaged with during the learning opportunities they oversee. Student recommendations for how Indigenous knowledges and perspectives could be more usefully integrated into journalism education were also gathered and reported.

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Section: News Representations Of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islande...mentioning

confidence: 99%