Local journalists can choose to amplify marginalised groups rather than attack them

Evidence

London-based local journalist Ben, for example, emphasised how his journalism practice involved actively avoiding ‘punching down’ on already marginalised sections of the communities his newspaper served, and instead ‘punching up, where it’s about highlighting evidence based, valid concerns and giving them the platform upwards.’ — Nadia Haq, ‘The National Media Just Sees Muslims…, 49

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with the neutrality-vs-advocacy debate in professional ethics and with ‘punching up’ as a comedy norm. — connects to: Journalists’ political biases shape which protest demands they report — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 414
• SEED: Angle: could a newsroom adopt a formal punching-up rule the way some outlets have adopted audience trusts — and what would it cost?