This page lists various reports about Australian/New Zealander/Pacific Islander journalists’ sourcing practices as well as guides on reporting various identities and topics more respectfully. Please email the VP (Media) with suggested inclusions that are Australian/New Zealander/Pacific Islander in focus and done by or in conjunction with our members.
Research reports on journalists’ sourcing practices:
- Women for Media Report 2024 An Unfinished Story: Understanding Gender Bias in Australian Newsrooms (2024)
- Going on the Record: Gendered Experiences of Media Engagement (2023)
- Who Makes the News? Australia National Report (2020)
- Who Gets To Tell Australian Stories? v 2.0 (2022)
Journalism research and guides on reporting various identities and topics
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- Our Watch National Media Roundtable Report (2026)
- Australian Local News Resilience Project (2026)
- Democracy’s Watchdogs Investigative Reporting Toolkit (2026)
- What Factors Create a Positive Interview Experience? Insights from News Sources to Increase Media Engagement (2026)
- Resourcing, technology & audiences: An industry-led agenda for journalism practice and research (2025)
- US Based Global Center for Journalism and Trauma’s Trauma Aware Reporting guides including for reporting about climate change, sexual violence and Indigenous history (2025)
- Our Watch guidelines on using images in reporting on violence against women (2025)
- Media reporting on far-right extremism in Australia: Between strategic silence and harmful amplification (2023)
- Reporting on Child Sexual Abuse: Guidance for Media (2023)
- The Suicide Reporting Toolkit (2023)
- Reporting on artificial intelligence: a handbook for journalism educators (2023)
- Improving Coverage of Older People in Australian News (2022)
- Disability Reporting Handbook (2022)
- Tips for media reporting on sexual harassment, including in workplaces (2022)
- MEAA Guidelines for Reporting on LGBTQIA+ Issues (2021)
- MEAA Reporting on Hate Speech & Extremism guidelines (2020)
- Mindframe guidelines on media reporting of severe mental illness in the context of violence and crime (2020)
- Reporting suicide and mental ill-health: A Mindframe resource for media professionals (2020)
- Paris-Declaration-on-freedom-of-journalism-education-2019-bilingual (2019)
- Reporting on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and Issues: An introductory resource for the media (2018)
- Reporting on Islam (2018)
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