Reporters from Australia’s national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), will undergo impartiality training when covering news about the controversial Indigenous Voice proposal.
The move comes after the country’s largest taxpayer-funded media outline faced heavy backlash for its reports on the Alice Springs community meeting in January, which its Ombudsman office has ruled as “impartial” and “inaccurate.”
According to an internal email to staff on Monday obtained by The Australian, journalists will be attending a “deep-dive” session into impartiality to make sure a diversity of views are presented in the report.
The guidelines warned reporters against favouring one opinion over another while at the same time avoiding the “unjustified use of stereotypes or discriminatory content.”…