Project Aims

The Reporting Diversity and Integration (RDI) Project takes the Journalism in Multicultural Australia Project a stage further. The main objectives are to:

• increase our understanding of the links between media reporting and community perceptions of safety, harmony and multicultural issues;
• demonstrate – through investigation, communication and education – the impacts of those links on individuals and diverse sectors of Australian society;
• provide media practitioners, academics and students with tools to enhance their understanding of multicultural issues and equip them for better reporting in these areas ;
• provide members of the community with information about how the media report multicultural issues and the impact this has on community harmony;
• further evolve curriculum resources for undergraduate students;
• increase the applicability of resources to cater for masters level students and beyond;
• work closely with Reference Group members on the ongoing development of the research materials (especially the Reporting Diversity Bibliographical Database and Media Analysis); and
• use Reference Group expertise and knowledge to identify important contemporary topics for research over the life of the project.