Black Justice Journalism

This month, Dr Amy McQuire will outline the development of Black Justice Journalism.

Black Justice Journalism describes independent Indigenous insurgent journalism centred on the fight of 'justice', in the ways that First Nations peoples define it. 'Justice' is not predicated on carceral logics, but instead, focuses on resistance and resurgence. 

It is strictly abolitionist, anti-racist and anti-colonial. In a media landscape which is concentrated and wedded to journalistic cornerstones like objectivity and impartiality, Black Justice Journalism is predicated on Indigenous ethics and Indigenous storytelling traditions.

Dr Amy McQuire is a Darumbal and South Sea Islander journalist with 18 years experience working in Indigenous and independent media. She is currently co-host of the investigative podcast Curtain and is a postdoctoral Indigenous Fellow at the QUT School of Communication. Amy's first non-fiction book Black Witness: The Power of Indigenous Media is due to be published by University of Queensland Press in 2024 and she is currently working on her second book, to be published by Penguin Random House in the near future.