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When Lismore’s river burst its banks, the Indigenous newspaper was hit hard. With printing paused, its staff are still finding ways to serve the community
Naomi Moran left high school to work in Indigenous media. Now she's the manager of the Koori Mail and chair of the peak body for Indigenous not-for-profit broadcasting, media, and communications.
Covid-19 provides the most recent example of how important this role is. The role of First Nations media in addressing misinformation has been paramount and continues to be vital in providing accurate information. Media is a dialogue. Discussion can begin with on air and published reports and roll into community discussion and online follow-up and debate. Ideally, this last stage, providing an important forum for moderated discussion of a topic, would take place in the comments section of a website.
But years of under-funding to the industry has resulted in a lack of development in this space. Sure, we have websites, but most of them lack the bells and whistles required to attract significant traffic. Uploading and updating requires time from small teams where any given individual is already performing a role that four or five people would be doing in a comparative commercial environment. We share content to indigiTUBE, our national online content platform and we post on social medi