A New Report Has Revealed Only 6% Of Aus TV News Presenters Are Non-European It’s Getting Worse

Australia’s media representation is worse than we all thought — and we all knew it was pretty fkn bad —  according to a new report. And it’s actually getting worse. The report published this week by non-profit group Media Diversity Australia found journalists with Anglo-Celtic backgrounds were “vastly over-represented” on TV. Their representation has increased from 75.8 per cent in 2020 to 78 per cent in 2022, but Anglo-Celtic Australians make up just 50 per cent of our population. Conversely, almost 25 per cent of Australia’s population is non-European but they only account for 6.1 per cent of news and current affairs program appearances. Professor Dimitria Groutsis

put out a written responseGavin Fang

But Groutsis responded and said the methodology was “defensible”.

“On balance, the outcomes are robust and valid. So from that perspective, that methodological sliver is as close and valid to an outcome as possible,” she said.

“We use the same methodology that we used last time to benchmark the findings. There were criticisms around the methodology last time, probably because the newsrooms didn’t see or hear what they would like to see in here.”

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