WELCOME to the Reporting Islam website, designed to offer reporters, editors and journalism students some basic guidance to the informed coverage of stories about Islam or involving Muslim people. This is an Australian project that drew on the international best practice research to develop the resources and reporting tips. Your reporting and editing of stories involving Islam and Muslim communities can have a major impact on people’s lives.

Of course, important news must be reported. However, the research shows that if your reporting is ignorant, unethical, sensationalised or inaccurate it can have devastating consequences.

Misreporting of Islam and Muslim people risks endangering or damaging people’s lives in important ways. This site aims to help you learn more about Islam and Muslim people and suggests some strategies to help you report upon news and current affairs fairly, accurately, and ethically to help you avoid adverse consequences.

The resources draw upon international best practice – backed by the latest research – to give you the toolkit to report news and events in an informative and inclusive way.

We hope you find the Reporting Islam site useful. Your fair and accurate reporting really can make a difference.

Contact: reportingislam@gmail.com

Reporting Islam Project

This project is national in its ambit, and was funded by the Commonwealth of Australia (July 2014 to the end of 2018). The multi-year research project was led by Professor Mark Pearson (2014-2016) and by Professor Jacqui Ewart (2015-2018). This site was developed during Stage 2 of the project in 2015-2016. That stage of the project required the development and trial of a suite of research-based training and education resources for Australian news media practitioners to encourage more informed reporting of Muslims and the Islamic faith.