Decolonising journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand: Using a Tiriti-led framework for news practice

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dc.contributor.authorRoss, Tara
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-14T04:29:22Z
dc.date.available2023-11-14T04:29:22Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractIn 2020, newspaper conglomerate and owner of Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest news website, Stuff, issued an historic public apology for its racist portrayal of Indigenous Māori after an internal investigation showed it had contributed to stigma, marginalisation and stereotypes against Māori. This study explores what has changed since Stuff’s apology and, by deploying an analytical framework grounded in Māori worldviews and Te Tiriti o Waitangi (the founding treaty signed between Māori and British colonisers), demonstrates how an Indigenous lens can help news organisations better identify and rethink Western-centric journalistic norms to develop more inclusive and equitable practice. The study analyses Stuff’s then largest newspaper, The Press, via a content analysis of two constructed weeks, one before Stuff’s apology (n=480 articles) and another post-apology (n=430 articles), along with a topic modelling analysis of 5091 articles published between 2016 and 2021. Analysis grounded in Kaupapa Māori and te Tiriti shows some improvement in news coverage – as well as opportunities for more equitable representation by incorporating Indigenous tikanga (custom) in reporting practice. It also finds ongoing problems, indicating more fundamental and transformative action is needed for news media organisations to meet their commitments to anti-racism and de-Westernising the field.
dc.identifier.citationRoss T (2023). Decolonising journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand: Using a Tiriti-led framework for news practice. Journalism Practice.
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2023.2250750
dc.identifier.issn1751-2786
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/106013
dc.rights2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651
dc.subjectjournalism
dc.subjectrepresentation
dc.subjectrace
dc.subjectMāori
dc.subjectIndigenous
dc.subjectTe Tiriti o Waitangi
dc.subjectcontent analysis
dc.subjectracism
dc.subject.anzsrc47 - Language, communication and culture::4701 - Communication and media studies::470105 - Journalism studies
dc.subject.anzsrc45 - Indigenous studies::4511 - Ngā tāngata, te porihanga me ngā hapori o te Māori (Māori peoples, society and community)::451121 - Ngā tirohanga Māori (Māori perspectives)
dc.subject.anzsrc45 - Indigenous studies::4507 - Te ahurea, reo me te hītori o te Māori (Māori culture, language and history)::450707 - Te ahurea Māori (Māori culture)
dc.subject.anzsrc45 - Indigenous studies::4519 - Other Indigenous data, methodologies and global Indigenous studies::451907 - Indigenous methodologies
dc.subject.mshTāngata whenua | Indigenous people (Aotearoa); Māori people; People, Māori
dc.subject.mshPāpāho | Pāho; Paoho; Pāoho; Whakapaoho; Broadcasting; Mass media
dc.titleDecolonising journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand: Using a Tiriti-led framework for news practice
dc.typeJournal Article
uc.collegeFaculty of Arts
uc.departmentLanguage, Social and Political Sciences
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