The inquiry can also consider forms of report in non-print media, such as: • a film or video documentary for commercial television • video • radio programmes • audio files, especially for those with visual impairment and those with low levels of literacy • web-based materials and guides. If producing a video, the inquiry should consider the desirability of ensuring that it is of broadcast quality. Many television stations would be willing to broadcast the video, at no cost to the inquiry, if it is well made, interesting and of broadcast standard. This kind of free coverage is invaluable in promoting the inquiry’s conclusions and recommendations and their implementation. Reporting through social media is an important way to bring the inquiry’s work to wider attention, especially among younger people. It should be planned and implemented strategically. Care must be taken, as always with social media, to ensure that the communication is well prepared and does not encourage or permit abuse or intimidation of victims and witnesses. Finally, the inquiry may also have to consider some forms of personal reporting. Representatives of the inquiry could return to communities where public hearings have been held to meet again with those who gave evidence, in particular victims and members of their families, to report back to them on what the inquiry had concluded and recommended. This may be the only way to report effectively to some disadvantaged or isolated communities and to people who do not access mainstream media regularly or successfully. KEY POINTS: CHAPTER 13 • A good report will ensure much better community understanding of the nature of the human rights issue or situation that has been examined and a much better possibility that the inquiry’s recommendations are accepted and implemented. • The inquiry should direct its report to the parliament and the Government, to victims, to those to whom recommendations are addressed and to the broader community. • The report is a means of promoting the inquiry’s recommendations and therefore needs to be persuasive, well written, appropriately structured and highlight the voices and experiences of victims. • The nature and style of the report should meet any statutory or other requirements for official reports to the parliament but they should also promote understanding by a wide audience. • The inquiry can choose to issue several reports, rather than only one, and to report in various formats, including video and audio form and through social media, not just through a written text, to ensure that the report is suitable for a variety of audiences. Chapter 13: Prepare the report | 69