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Wilfred Yang Wang, Lecturer in Media & Communications Studies, The University of Melbourne

Ethnic community media can play a key role in a crisis – but it needs our support

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The recent Who Gets to Tell Australian Stories? report on diversity in Australian newsrooms revealed some grim, but unsurprising figures. The report found most television news and current affairs presenters on major Australian free-to-air networks are Anglo-Celtic. So too were most senior network news editors.

One part of this problem is a lack of representation of Asian people in Australian mainstream newsrooms.

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