Freelance journalist Ky Chow says media diversity should extend into ideology, considering the underrepresentation of conservative opinions in many prominant news organisations.
“A recent report from Media Diversity Australia showed that Australia's newsroom has proportionately less non-white on air staff than the general population, and definitely among the news directors themselves,” he said. “But the most common suggestions to fix this problem - targets, official policies on cultural diversity or even just talking about it - are often shot down by conservatives.
" Mr Chow said conservative opinions were underrepresented in many news organisations and suggested it may be time for "concrete policies to allow for the diversity of thought needed to fairly represent Australia". “But left leaning newsrooms, and I'm sure many from the conservative background, might push back against that for the same reasons that many newsrooms push back at the idea of targets or quotas of non-white Australians,” he said.
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