Inclusivity Recommendations for Journalists

The Guatemalan Indigenous Inclusion in Media Toolkit toolkit adapts Internews Reporting on Vulnerable Populations Guidance and Thomas Huckin’s Critical Discourse Analysis in the Functional Approaches To Written Text: Classroom Applications to provide best practices for reporting on or depicting indigenous issues. Use the country context, the list of indigenous opinion leaders and the self-education resources along with the guidelines below to provide strong, unbiased, and informed reporting and commentary. You can also use these guidelines to identify and challenge weak or biased reporting found in mainstream media outlets.