Project provides guide to reporting Islam
Posted on: Fri 7 Apr 2017
Breakfast host Jennie Lenman recently took part in Griffiths University training program Reporting Islam. She then sat down with the project manager, Dr Abdi Hersi, as well as journalist and academic Murray Cornish, to find out more about it.
The Muslim community has been grossly misrepresented in recent years by countless mainstream media outlets, sparking many misconceptions about the faith and those in the community as tensions grow over immigration and extremism. Research shows that if reporting is ignorant, unethical, sensationalised or inaccurate it can have devastating consequences.
Produced By: Jennie Lenman
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