http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1308/S00109.htm Call for journalists to improve disability knowledge Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 3:45 pm Press Release: Article 33 Convention Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 7 August 2013 Call for journalists to improve disability knowledge! A report being launched today says that the lack of disability awareness and responsiveness within the New Zealand media is huge. This lack of awareness contributes to journalists, more often than not, seeking out the voices of organisations run for, and not by, disabled people and also the voices of family/whanau members rather than of the disabled people themselves, according to the report - which investigates how disabled New Zealanders are portrayed by the media. The report will be launched this evening, by the Minister for Disability Issues: Hon Tariana Turia, at a function in the Beehive. [....]