The Multicultural Media Exchange aims to:
1. Skill communities – especially young people – to represent themselves in the media.
2. Improve the reporting of multicultural issues in the mainstream media.
3. Support the development of the multicultural media sector.
They run a mentor program for young people aged 18-25, offer media training and professional development, and are developing a project to promote diverse voices, sources, and opinions in the mainstream media.
The website hosts the work of young people from our mentor program. They match young people from new and emerging communities with professional journalist mentors, who provide support for the production of an original story. Some young people are newly arrived in Australia, and most have never written a story before.
They have partnerships with mainstream publications, and work to find an audience for these stories. Their partners include Leader Community Newspapers, The Big Issue, and The Age.