Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Friday 28 October
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Indigenous voices are flourishing online, but are any being heard? What impact is the proliferation of Black media having on mainstream news values and journalistic practices? Has it improved the representation of Indigenous people? Are these active voices disrupting and contesting other important forums? This panel will discuss the civic impact of new media enabled First Nations news outlets, how they work, what can be improved and what to expect next.
Featuring
Jack Latimore
Jack Latimore is an Indigenous researcher with the Centre for Advancing Journalism. He is currently involved in the development of several projects aimed at improving the quality of Indigenous representation and participation in the mainstream media-sphere. His journalism work has appeared in Koori Mail, Guardian Australia, Overland and IndigenousX.
Luke Pearson
Luke Pearson is the founder of Indigenous media organisation IndigenousX. He is an editor, writer, consultant and public speaker.
Michelle Lovegrove
Michelle is a Ngarrindjeri Latvian woman born in Port Augusta, South Australia and brought up in the Illawarra region of the state of New South Wales. She has worked in commercial Australian television and radio across three states, national public broadcaster ABC with News Radio and ten years at SBS as executive producer of Living Black Radio. She is currently Senior Communications Officer at the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council.
Lisa Waller
Lisa Waller is a senior lecturer in Communication at the School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University. Her research centres on questions about how news shapes society, especially at the local level, but also in fields including the justice system and policymaking.
She was a newspaper journalist for 20 years before becoming an academic.
Summer May Finlay
Summer is a Yorta Yorta Woman who grew up in Lake Macquarie near Newcastle. She has worked in Aboriginal affairs at the National level and has strong professional connections across the country in the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service sector. She specializes in health policy, qualitative research and communications.
Summer is a writer with Croakey and is the Acting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Vice President Co-convener of the Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Interest Group.
Summer has been involved with a number of Twitter campaigns with Croakey including #JustJustice and #IHMayDay.
She has a Bachelor of Social Science from Macquarie University, A Master of Public Health Advance from the University of Wollongong and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of South Australia.