Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 19, 2017 16:21:39 GMT 12
NZ ‘RELENTLESSLY PĀKEHĀ’ NEWSROOMS IMPROVING, SAYS RESEARCHER
There are still too few Māori in New Zealand’s newsrooms, media researcher Julie Middleton says.
She is investigating how tikanga (culture) Māori is influencing and shaping New Zealand media.
She told Radio New Zealand’s Māori Issues correspondent Mihingarangi Forbes that until 2006, when she left the Herald, the culture in newsrooms and journalism was “relentlessly Pākehā”.
“There have always been very few Māori in mainstream newsrooms and Māori always were seen as ‘the other’,” Middleton says......
asiapacificreport.nz/2017/01/19/nz-relentlessly-pakeha-newsrooms-improving-says-researcher/
There are still too few Māori in New Zealand’s newsrooms, media researcher Julie Middleton says.
She is investigating how tikanga (culture) Māori is influencing and shaping New Zealand media.
She told Radio New Zealand’s Māori Issues correspondent Mihingarangi Forbes that until 2006, when she left the Herald, the culture in newsrooms and journalism was “relentlessly Pākehā”.
“There have always been very few Māori in mainstream newsrooms and Māori always were seen as ‘the other’,” Middleton says......
asiapacificreport.nz/2017/01/19/nz-relentlessly-pakeha-newsrooms-improving-says-researcher/
