Hello, I’m Priti Salian, an independent journalist, researcher and media trainer based out of Bengaluru, a city in South India. I run Reframing Disability, a fortnightly dispatch simplifying disability-inclusive narratives.
2024 is an election year for 64 countries including India, the US, the European Union, the UK, South Africa, Indonesia, Rwanda, Mexico, Solomon Islands, and many more. While we're waiting to see whether democracy lives on or dies, let's consider whether the elections in our countries are fully accessible for people with disabilities, if the disability community’s issues have a place in political parties’ manifestos and whether the community has any political representation at all.
What is your wishlist for media coverage of disability issues related to elections in your country? Which issues would you like to see in the news? What can the news media do to improve coverage? Send in your thoughts as a response to this Google Form and I shall include them in a future issue of Reframing Disability.
Reframing Disability reaches many journalists and editors and has readers across 32 countries. Your ideas would help them be inclusive of disability rights in their election coverage.
Your participation in this study is confidential. Your name and any other identifying information will not be shared with anyone outside Reframing Disability.
