MediaTor: Jurnal Komunikasi
Vol 15, No 2 (2022): (Accredited Sinta 2)

Inclusive Journalism on Disability News in TribunSumsel.com during Covid 19 Pandemic Era

Rindang Senja Andarini (Universitas Sriwijaya, Palembang)



Article Info

Publish Date
03 Jan 2023

Abstract

Reports in the mass and online media tend to present people with disabilities in an insufficient representation. When people with disabilities are portrayed in the news, they are often marked by the stigma attached by society. This shows the importance of directing the approach of journalists toward inclusive journalism. This research aims to examine how the representation of different abilities is portrayed in the local online media TribunSumsel.com. This research uses the framing analysis method of Zhongdang Pan and Gerald M. Kosicki. The results of the research show that many news of TribunSumsel.com presented a positive portrayal of people with different ability by avoiding the use of stereotypical language or phrases. However, in terms of news sources, this media more often used non-disabled sources, even in disability news. In other topics, people with disabilities were not involved as news sources. The use of images was still focused on people with physical disabilities, while other disabilities were not raised. In addition, the portrayal of people with different abilities as inspiring objects still stood out (inspiration porn). This result showed that the media still needs to apply the principles of inclusive journalism.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

mediator

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Mediator: Jurnal Komunikasi focuses on communication studies and media. Although centered on communication, Mediator is open and welcomes the contribution of many disciplines and approaches that meet at crossroads with communication studies. Type of writing is in the form of scientific articles (the ...