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Saturday 29 October
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
The Reporting Islam Project’s Mark Pearson and Abdi Hersi present this workshop for journalists, journalism educators and journalism students – focussing on how to report mosque proposals.
Research shows that Australians have low levels of knowledge about Islam and Muslims, with 83% reporting knowing ‘little to nothing’ about either. Recent research also shows that journalists’ baseline knowledge about Islam and Muslims is one contributor to inaccurate and stereotyped reporting.
By storyboarding news coverage of a mosque proposal and a resulting protest, this workshop will introduce journalists to some of the resources developed by the Reporting Islam Project. The project aims improve the fairness, ethics and accuracy of media reporting on matters relating to Islam and Muslim communities – in hopes of promoting social cohesion, understanding and cooperation.
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Abdi Hersi
Dr. Abdi Hersi is currently a sessional lecturer in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences of Griffith University. He is also the manager/Muslim trainer of the Reporting Islam project. The project’s aim is to develop suite of research-based training and education resources for Australian media practitioners to encourage more mindful reporting of Muslims and the Islamic faith.
Dr. Hersi published a number of refereed journal articles in reputable international journals on issues and matters that affect immigration in general and in particular the Muslim communities in Australia. In addition to his academic work, he has had a long and distinguished career in the Australian Public Service and the Federal Department of Immigration and Border Protection.
Mark Pearson
Mark Pearson is Professor of Journalism and Social Media at Griffith University in Queensland, and is a journalist, academic, blogger and author. His main areas of research and commentary are media law and ethics. He has written and edited for The Australian, and has been published in a range of publications including the Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review.
He is co-author of The Journalist’s Guide to Media Law (5th ed, 2015), co-editor of Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era: A Buddhist Approach (Routledge NY, 2015), author of Blogging and Tweeting Without Getting Sued (2012), co-editor of Sources of News and Current Affairs (ABA, 2001) and co-editor of Courts and the Media: Challenges in the Era of Digital and Social Media (2012). He is co-investigator with Jacqui Ewart of the major Australian Government-funded Reporting Islam project (2014-2016).